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If you are looking for the perfect fancy beach party/casual outdoor wedding-guest dress for this summer, I think this is it.
July 2007 2007
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If you are looking for the perfect fancy beach party/casual outdoor wedding-guest dress for this summer, I think this is it.
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Hence, the Mariner's story is one we overhear as it is told by him to a diverted, spell-bound "wedding-guest," at that most traditional and social of rituals, a marriagea setting that underlines the tale's social significance. 22
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'In fact, I feel at this moment very much as the Ancient Mariner may have done the moment before he met the wedding-guest -- when, in fact, he had nobody to button-hole, and felt the strong necessity of boring some one!'
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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They are notoriously addicted to the practice of standing arrested on some round of a ladder, where, having mounted up for some certain book, they have by wayward chance fallen upon another, in which, at the first opening, has come up a passage which fascinates the finder as the eye of the Ancient Mariner fascinated the wedding-guest, and compels him to stand there poised on his uneasy perch and read.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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The only wedding-guest was the parson's old friend Dr. Glebe, and he returned with them to the parsonage because he had a few serious words that he wished to say there.
Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various
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My tin box would possibly yield me a button-nosegay, but otherwise I might beat my breast, like the wedding-guest in the _Ancient Mariner_, for I heard the summons and was unable to attend in right attire.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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I was the wedding-guest, listening to his story, held by his glittering eye.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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Remembering the Gadarene swine, the barren fig-tree, the parable of the wedding-guest without a garment,
The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927
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Margaret, who was engaged to his father, and his sister's wedding-guest, kept on her way without noticing him, and he admitted that he had wronged her on this point.
Howards End 1924
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