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• But he hadn't himself at this juncture seen Frankle; he had only wondered, and a degree of mystification had even remained That memory referred itself to the dark days of old Drury's smash, the few weeks between his partner's dastardly flight and Herbert's own comment on it in the form of his standing up with Nan for the nuptial benediction of the Vicar of St. Bernard's on a very cold, bleak December morning and amid a circle of seven or eight long-faced, red-nosed and altogether dowdy persons. —  The Finer Grain
• She refuses to submit to the attempt that is of course made (in spite of a pre-nuptial understanding) to bring her under the yoke, and so off she goes and lives independently, leaving husband and relatives lamenting The vicar's wife said she thought she must be going home. —  The Daughters of Danaus
• But he came round in a month or two, and the first notice of it was a letter from his lawyer, saying that, in accordance with the instruction of his client, Mr. John Bale, he had drawn up and now enclosed a post-nuptial settlement, settling on me the sum of 5000 pounds consols; and that his client wished him to say that, had I married the person he had intended for me, that sum would have been doubled The idea, when I never even saw the man! —  Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)
• But I, in ignorance {of this}, was preparing the bridal chamber, and the {nuptial} torches for thee; and my chief hope was that of a son-in-law, my next was that of grandchildren. —  The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
• The happy bridegroom appeared dressed in the height of fashion, the hour for the nuptial party to set out had struck I must go in and bring forth the bride," he said; and he soon reappeared with a female, holding a large bouquet in her hand. —  Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin

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