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  • One or two officers disobeyed orders and smuggled their wives on board with them, including a certain Lieutenant Fourés of the dragoons who was eventually to regret his decision to bring along his new-wed bride, the comely and vivacious “Bellitote,” disguised in military uniform.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • One or two officers disobeyed orders and smuggled their wives on board with them, including a certain Lieutenant Fourés of the dragoons who was eventually to regret his decision to bring along his new-wed bride, the comely and vivacious “Bellitote,” disguised in military uniform.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • The scene was a ship, and the actors -- were myself and my new-wed wife.

    Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various

  • A month ago Adèle and I, new-wed, had visited Pau.

    Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922

  • And on top of these blows up comes Aunt Mollie the new-wed, and beams fondly on her.

    Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order,

    Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Time ceased to rule in her, so that the joy of bride and new-wed wife, the strange, sweet perplexities of dawning motherhood were with her now, not as memories merely, but as actual, ever present, deathless fact -- the culminating, and therefore permanent, revelation of her individual experience.

    The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

  • So they obeyed her, and when she was ready she went with them into the great hall where many of the household were gathered, waiting to do homage to the new-wed pair, and greeted them all, blushing and smiling, saying that doubtless the marquis would be among them soon, and commanding them meanwhile to go about their several tasks.

    Fair Margaret Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Now, escorted by pages and torch-bearers, the new-wed pair repassed those dim and stately halls, the bride, veiled, mysterious, fateful; the bridegroom, empty-eyed, like one who wanders in his sleep.

    Fair Margaret Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Feeling myself in honour bound to go on the embassy, as I was their only interpreter, I, artful dog, was trying to play upon their fears in order to prevent it from starting, so that I might have a week or two of the company of my new-wed wife.

    Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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