world-without-end

When the King complains that love is unhappy with delay, the Princess rebukes him: a year is hardly too long 'To make a world-without-end bargain in'.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

Shakespeare is right, "Marriage is a world-without-end bargain," for love is felt to be eternal.

Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan

She seems to think one ought to draw a long face on the Sabbath, -- a sort of 'world-without-end' expression, you know.

Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party Edyth Ellerbeck Read 1924

But let me tell you right here that whatever I may or may not be, I am an American from the ground up -- from Alpha to Omega, world-without-end.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

But just as the play at the end turns from love-making and gay courtesies to thoughts of death and “world-without-end” pledges, so Biron's merriment is only the effervescence of youth, and love brings out in him Shakespeare's characteristic melancholy:

The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

Honesty is easy when we can forget ourselves; and here, where the wind seemed to pluck the words from the reader's mouth and carry them to the hills that matched them in grandeur, they cut the last link between us and our selfish thoughts and fears, imparting a sense of world-without-end, making us one with our feathered clerk who, his red-brown wings folded, wove a thread of song into the Psalm.

The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 Filson Young 1907

Of course there ain't progress; it's a world-without-end affair.

Complete Plays of John Galsworthy John Galsworthy 1900

Of course there ain't progress; it's a world-without-end affair.

Windows John Galsworthy 1900

Of course there ain't progress; it's a world-without-end affair.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

Of course there ain't progress; it's a world-without-end affair.

Plays : Fifth Series John Galsworthy 1900