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  • The setting: there is a killer going round the Bay Area, taking the lives of newly-weds on the night of their honeymoon or the day of their wedding.

    2010 March 29 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • According to the Daily Mail, "the newly-weds will make an emotional visit to the Canadian airfield where Kate's late grandfather, Peter Middleton, was based as an RAF pilot during the Second World War."

    William <![CDATA[&]]> Kate's Canada, Los Angeles Trip Itinerary Revealed 2011

  • It has been reported that newly-weds Russell Brand and Katy Perry have hit a rocky patch, after the comedian took a photo of his wife without make-up, first thing in the morning, and published it on Twitter.

    A cool Radio 4? What a turn-off | Victoria Coren 2011

  • Stroll around Tatton Mere and you'll see Steve Messam's giant red lilies scattered over the water, or make like newly-weds in a (free) chauffeur-driven taxi ride in Clara Ursitti's Ghost – a Nissan Sunny imbued with the luxurious scent of a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud.

    Love is in the (open) air Nell Card 2010

  • Talking of newly-weds, one of my Japanese colleagues recently got married, and shortly afterwards went off to a work drinking party where the long-time married guys were giving him advice.

    Secrets of a happy Japanese marriage 2008

  • We were just going about being newly-weds, and then, all of a sudden, we were expectant parents.

    Naked Truth Danielle Staub 2010

  • As content as I was, the sight of the newly-weds from three graves down eyeing a small adjacent plot - the perfect size for a child's coffin — hand in hand and with tender hope in their eyes had filled me with the first flutterings of broodiness.

    Six Down 2010

  • Beyond the Boreal ocean, strange new continents loom above tropical seas, offering a new start to colonists like newly-weds Maddy and Bob, and the hope of further glory to explorers like ex-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin: but nobody knows why they exist, and outside the circle of exploration the universe is inexplicably warped.

    Charles Stross "Missile Gap" 2008

  • Out of habit, I turned to a not insignificant poem which had indeed been composed by Donne to honour that ill-fated constellation of newly-weds: his Epithalamion,  Or marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St Valentines day, from which I here reproduce a certain part:

    The Stream and The Torrent 2009

  • In the first extract from Sam Thackeray's American travel journal, the newly-weds arrive in Los Angeles, and eat tuna and hamachi sashimi with Jon Voight.

    California Dreamin' 2009

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