riage

He is certainly justified, since affection is what romantic love must evolve into after mar - riage.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled last week that Prop 8 violated the U.S. constitutional guarantees to equal protection and due process because it singled out gays and lesbians for denial of a mar riage license.

Judge Lets Gays Marry in California Pending an Appeal 2010

He had for years, even from my girlhood, prided himself with the hopes of joining my hand in mar-riage, especially if the office were performed in Northamptonshire.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

You see then, my dear, the filial duty the duty of a reasonable and modest woman, were she even without parents or friends, forbids fancy to be her guide, as much as the sacred engagement of mar-riage forbids it to be her tormentor.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

The amiable youth, to whom I was to be united by mar-riage, died.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

I will suppose him mistaken enough to imagine, that he should make her amends by mar-riage, if he could compel her hand; and will trust my person to his honour, one servant only to walk before his door, not to enter the house, to attend my commands, after our conversation is over.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

I, madaai, am far from being unprejudiced in this case: for, can the man who once himself hoped for the honour of jour hand, advise you against mar-riage?

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

Do not the happy pair date their happiness from the day of mar-riage?

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

Lord G. presents me with a face for his, that I never saw him wear before mar-riage: he has cheated me, therefore.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

From the driver of this machine he learned, that having proceeded by slow stages, they had late in the evening approached Rotterdam; but that before they entered the city, and while yet nearly a mile from it, a small party of men, soberly clad, and after the old fashion, with peaked beards and moustaches, standing in the centre of the road, obstructed the further progress of the car - riage.

The Purcell Papers 2003