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Example sentences for "after marriage"

  • In Ireland, where ancient custom and tradition have always been very tenaciously preserved, women retained a very high position, and much freedom both before and after marriage.

  • These results among the London poor are certainly very much better than could be found in many manufacturing towns where women work after marriage.

  • There remains also a prayer written by Steele before first taking the sacrament with his wife, after marriage.

  • To marry a Woman with the Coldness that usually indeed comes on after Marriage, is ruining one's self with one's Eyes open; besides it is really doing her an Injury.

  • After marriage we practised all sorts of fancy coitus, coitus reservatus, etc.

  • Of these 42, at least 17 had masturbated, at one time or another, either before or after marriage, in order to obtain relief of sexual feelings.

  • After marriage, in various parts of Australia, there are numerous restraints on intercourse, which is forbidden not merely during menstruation, but during the latter part of pregnancy and for one moon after childbirth.

  • After marriage, she feels that she is really his and that he has become a part of herself--that they are no more twain but are one flesh.

  • After marriage he feels that she is his, that she has pledged herself to this effect; and the law has so decided; she is his, as he is hers, irrevocably.

  • After marriage a new order of life is entered upon by the wife, and her family matters should subordinate all other schemes and projects of her future existence.

  • Sidenote: The Destroyer] After marriage, a great many women begin the slow process of alienating a man from his family, blind to the fact that by lessening his love for others, they add nothing to their own store.

  • After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

  • Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

  • Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

  • Let him remember with what admiring smiles, before marriage, he received her pretty professions of utter helplessness and incapacity in domestic matters, finding only poetry and grace in what, after marriage, proved an annoyance.

  • After marriage he still yields unreflectingly to present impulses, which are no longer to praise, but to criticize and condemn.

  • You need not retain the whole of your previous acquaintance; those only to whom you send cards, are, after marriage, considered in the circle of your visiting acquaintance.

  • After marriage, the bridal party usually travel for a week or two; upon their return, it is customary for the bride to be at home for a few days to receive visits.

  • If she does not love him, she is advised by the guru and headman to do so, because there are many cases in which the girls, after marriage, if they are matured, go away with other Malaialis.

  • The husband goes to live with his wife, who, after marriage, continues to live in her father's house.

  • They distend the lobes of their ears, and for the first few years after marriage wear in them circular gold ornaments somewhat resembling those affected by the Nayar ladies.

  • After marriage, in her husband's home, his parents become hers in a far more significant sense than among us.

  • It was more difficult for women to get higher education as they must have obtained it through private instruction and possibly, after marriage, from their husbands.

  • His property before marriage continues his after marriage, subject to her inchoate rights of dower.

  • Mr. Pickard asked who, after marriage, should hold the property, and whose name should be retained.

  • I grant that owing to the present unjust and unequal reward for labor, many have to work too hard for a subsistence; but whatever his vocation, he has to attend as much to it before as after marriage.

  • If the guilty party is the wife, her husband has the right to retain all her dowry which she brought to him, and to retake all gifts made to her either before or after marriage.

  • When, after marriage, he becomes addicted to habitual drunkenness.

  • In favour of either husband or wife, when the other shall have been convicted, after marriage, of a felony, and imprisonment in any prison.

  • She has a right also to retain any gifts she may have received from him either before or after marriage.

  • Another characteristic which marks woman's career among the lower races is the fact of her early and rapid physical deterioration after marriage.

  • After marriage, the confinement becomes still more secure, and the woman is inaccessible.

  • The young Jewish maiden's life is cheerless before her wedlock, as she is shut out from the joys of social gatherings; and, after marriage, cheerlessness gives way to impenetrable gloom.

  • After marriage in all Northern countries a woman's conduct is strictly watched.

  • After marriage there is no more such liberty.

  • If even within the sphere of romantic love no two cases are exactly alike, how could love before marriage be the same as after marriage when so many new experiences, ideas, and associations come into play?

  • Monogamy, in its lower phases, does not exclude promiscuous intercourse before marriage and (with the husband's permission) after marriage.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after all; after considerable; after exchanging; after exposure; after gazing; after hearing; after long; after other; after reading; after receiving; after referring; after shall; after supper; after their; after thinking; after this; after touching; after two; after washing; after what has happened; afterwards learned; cheery tone; first arrival; lantern slides; love her; solitary life