marriage

• This marriage was arranged for in the summer of the preceding year, and after the Earl of Derby had come into his titles and estates, through the death of his elder brother, in April 1594 Referring again to the State Papers, we have on 15th August 1594 the statement of a Jesuit, named Edmund Yorke, who is reported as saying "Burghley poisoned the Earl of Derby so as to marry his granddaughter to his brother." —  Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
• He should have written to the Farm as soon as his marriage was a settled fact. —  The Heart of Arethusa
• Never can be certain of my own mind when I am hurried--was not certain of it when Lady Calmady proposed that the marriage should be at Brockhurst. —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
• Two weeks dragged along and the time for the marriage was approaching. —  Old Ebenezer
• Walking round the sacred post The binding ceremony of the marriage is the walking seven times round the marriage-post in the direction of the sun. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Wordniks Suggest

Used in the Same Context

Word Family