marriage-ring

It was not in his nature to be troublesome or inquisitive, but he could not fail to see that the lady wore no marriage-ring; and her deep sorrow, and perpetual tremor, seemed to indicate an unhappy creature, who had lost the protection of parents, without acquiring a legitimate right to that of a husband.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

It is true that she yet wore on her third finger the marriage-ring of a sailor lover, and his memory was yet fresh in her heart; but even mothers who have married for love themselves somehow so blend a daughter's existence with their own as to conceive that she must marry their love, and not her own.

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

There is hardly a pure and innocent delight that unmarried women enjoy which they can carry into that blissful world bounded by the marriage-ring.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

"It makes you doubly mine," he said; and he led me back to outside life, with this strange sort of marriage-ring circling with its planet weight around my finger.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

She accepts from her lord a marriage-ring as the token of recognition.

Tales from the Hindu Dramatists R. N. Dutta

She sat turning and turning the marriage-ring upon her finger, sometimes all unconsciously essaying to slip it off, and tugging viciously at the knuckle-joint that prevented its removal, and her eyes, heavy for sleep and moist with sorrow, still could pierce the woods of Shira Glen to their deep-most recesses and see her lover there.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

She was very handsome, was the younger sister, with an innocent look in her blue eyes that her language belied, and smart, as her marriage-ring bore witness to.

XII. The Passing of Cat Alley 1902

The silent, sapphire-spangled, marriage-ring of the land.

An Island Garden 1894

Can she regain it? she would die with that ring upon her finger -- it is her marriage-ring, wedding her through death to Geoffrey, upon the altar of the sea.

Beatrice Henry Rider Haggard 1890

"What a little sage you are, my pet!" laughed Philip, taking her hand on which the marriage-ring and its accompanying diamond circlet, glistened brilliantly in the warm sunlight.

Thelma Marie Corelli 1889