Hymeneal

Indifferency, but count upon a Beau Gallant or a Coquet Mistress, to answer all Hymeneal Happiness; so it is but just they fail of that

Exilius 2008

What the deuce does a mariage de convenance mean but all this, and are not such sober Hymeneal torches more satisfactory often than the most brilliant love matches that ever flamed and burnt out?

The Newcomes 2006

Hymeneal festivals will be celebrated at times fixed with an eye to population, and the brides and bridegrooms will meet at them; and by an ingenious system of lots the rulers will contrive that the brave and the fair come together, and that those of inferior breed are paired with inferiors — the latter will ascribe to chance what is really the invention of the rulers.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Do you not recollect that Eighteen years have run their anual Circuit, since we pledged our mutual Faith to each other, and the Hymeneal torch was Lighted at the Alter of Love.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 25 October 1782 1993

Hymeneal (hi'me-ne'al), referring to marriage; from Hymen, the Greek god of marriage. hypothesis (hi-poth'e-sis), something not proved, but taken for granted for the purpose of argument. hyssop (his'up), a fragrant plant whose leaves have a strong taste.

Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

This is a way of life which reminds me of the period when I was myself in a state of celibacy, and Mrs. Micawber had not yet been solicited to plight her faith at the Hymeneal altar.

XXVIII. Mr. Micawber’s Gauntlet 1917

This is a way of life which reminds me of the period when I was myself in a state of celibacy, and Mrs. Micawber had not yet been solicited to plight her faith at the Hymeneal altar. '

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

_Vesper adest_ ... that a man reads the first couplet of that Hymeneal, and immediately perceives the Apennines.

On Nothing and Kindred Subjects Hilaire Belloc 1911

But in the intoxicating ardour of my billing and cooing I may have omitted to mention that, when I have led you to the Hymeneal altar, you will not be alone in your glory.

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

The prevalence of the kept mistress surpasses the wildest imagining in this city, although in many a home her dire influence has extinguished the Hymeneal torch, and left nothing but ashes and desolation.

Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Abraham H. Hummel 1887