marriage-vow

Curses, hideous curses on that wife who first did shame her marriage-vow for lovers other than her lord!

Hippolytus 2008

Curses, hideous curses on that wife who first did shame her marriage-vow for lovers other than her lord!

Hippolytus 2008

And when I think I can keep the marriage-vow, then will it be time to marry.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

I know of old, my dear, your meek regard to that little piddling part of the marriage-vow which some prerogative-monger foisted into the office, to make that a duty, which he knew was not a right.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Now, could I could come to her with any detection in my hand, my desires had instance and argument to commend themselves: I could drive her then from the ward of her purity, her reputation, her marriage-vow, and a thousand other her defences, which now are too too strongly embattled against me.

The Merry Wives of Windsor 2004

It happens very rarely that these honorary engagements are dissolved or disregarded, a stigma being attached to a breach of faith which is thought more disgraceful, if not so criminal, as the violation of the marriage-vow.

Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003

Yet, I love you too well to make your life wretched by requiring you to keep your marriage-vow with me, from which I hereby release you.

Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis

But in _that_ case you would not have asked me to break my marriage-vow; and why now shall I break a solemn vow deliberately made before God?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

In all these cases except one, the ground on which the divorce was granted was infidelity to the marriage-vow.

The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 Various

Perhaps, when that was done, when an irrevocable barrier should separate her from all possibility of earthly love, when the awful marriage-vow should have been spoken which should seal her heart for heaven alone, he might recover some of the blessed calm which her influence once brought over him, and these wild desires might cease, and these feverish pulses be still.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various