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Example sentences for "marriage"

Lexicographically close words:
marquisate; marquise; marquises; marre; marred; marriageable; marriages; marrid; marrie; married
  1. The marriage was fixed for November; the dispensation from the Bishop had been obtained.

  2. The marriage could not have taken place," he said slowly.

  3. For the thousandth time, her heart told her that in this untoward marriage she was wrenching herself anew from her father and all his world.

  4. The cross that such a marriage would have laid upon you must have been heavy indeed.

  5. It was spent in cottage homes with his beloved sister Dorothy, for a short while in Dorsetshire, another short while at Alfoxden, in Somerset, and then till his marriage at Grasmere.

  6. One, and the chief, labour undertaken by Lloyd at Brathay, after his marriage and permanent settlement there, was a voluminous translation of Alfieri's poetical works from the Italian.

  7. She had had a love episode in earlier life which probably left its mark upon her character; but this marriage can hardly claim any romance as its inspiration.

  8. When past her girlhood she proved a handsome and cultured lady, sought in marriage by at least two men, both of whose offers she refused, but neither of whom espoused any other.

  9. One result of this acquaintance was the marriage of Lloyd's sister to a younger brother of the future Laureate.

  10. Three years after his marriage he visited these regions in a stormy November.

  11. He had married unsuitably to satisfy his parents, and the marriage had been nullified.

  12. This marriage was anything but satisfactory, as any onlooker would have foretold in regard to a union between two such unusual and pronounced characters.

  13. I lie and pray to be taken, that my good man, my proved good man, may be free to choose a healthy young woman and be rewarded before his end by learning what a true marriage is.

  14. The same night of our marriage Galoshes called round, and made himself mighty civil, and got into a habit of dropping in about dark and smoking his pipe with the family.

  15. Uma,” said I, “give us your marriage certificate.

  16. I have rarely performed the marriage ceremony with more grateful emotions.

  17. For it seems this proposal of marriage was the start of all the trouble.

  18. I was ashamed to be so much moved about a native, ashamed of the marriage too, and the certificate she had treasured in her kilt; and I turned aside and made believe to rummage among my cases.

  19. Once that, and we can make exhibit of our marriage certificates, their words will go for nought.

  20. Signor, my daughter is already promised, and the arrangements for her marriage will shortly be begun.

  21. Her gains for her present engagement would belong to her father; and he felt, though he would not own, that there was enough uncertainty about her future to make the solid good of her marriage most desirable.

  22. It was his part to arrange a marriage for her; and her little wishes, her foolish tongue, went for nothing.

  23. Women have peculiar grievances in marriage laws, in the law dealing with sexual vice and crime, in the payment of women in the Civil Service, and in threatened legislation for excluding married women from work in factories.

  24. Among them have been Acts for reducing the salary of a Governor-General, for regulating copyright and shipping, for checking foreign immigration, and for altering the law relating to marriage and divorce.

  25. The Convocation of the Diocese was considering whether the wife's pledge to obey her husband should be struck out of the marriage service.

  26. Marriage had ceased to be the sole object of a decent woman's life.

  27. In 1857 the Divorce Act was carried in the face of clerical opposition, and enabled any person to obtain the dissolution of an unhappy marriage in a civil court.

  28. Men erect a system of marriage law which places the wife in the power of the husband.

  29. Marriage must be made dissoluble, because, while divorce was impossible, indissoluble unions meant misery for many men and women.

  30. The subjection of the wife enjoined by the marriage service dates from a period long preceding even that of apostolic barbarism, when women were regarded as absolutely at the disposition of their male associates.

  31. In July, 1846, he instructed the British Ambassador in Spain to lecture the Spanish Government on its unconstitutional domestic policy, and in order to thwart Louis Philippe of France, meddled with the marriage of the young Queen.

  32. Acts for checking Chinese immigration into Australia and for permitting marriage with a deceased husband's brother in New Zealand have been recently sanctioned by the Crown.

  33. They raced horses, hunted foxes, drank, gambled, joined in every amusement of the planters and would extort marriage fees from the poor by breaking off in the middle of the service and refusing to go on until paid.

  34. As civilization advanced and habits grew more luxurious the marriage festivities grew more elaborate and became affairs of serious expense.

  35. Is the custom of sending a pair of green stockings to the eldest unmarried daughter of a family, upon the occasion of the marriage of a younger sister, of English, Irish, or Scottish origin?

  36. All went merry as a marriage bell" (in Byron's Childe Harold) is derived?

  37. My mother had died when I was a baby and my father's second marriage did not occur until my eighth year.

  38. We rejoice ourselves with songs and musical instruments on marriage occasions.

  39. Mrs. Talbert resigned her place after her marriage to Mr. William H.

  40. The home life of the race is purer and the sacredness of the marriage vow is gaining pre-eminence over the divorce system.

  41. Immediately after her marriage she became the private secretary of her husband; and with him traveled extensively in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain and Continental Europe.

  42. Church South, who performed the marriage ceremony in his own house.

  43. Then again, the class of Negroes who have but little respect for the marriage vow are, as a rule, those who are indolent, worthless and without a home and making no effort to obtain one.

  44. He has one son, George William, being the issue of his former marriage to the late Mrs. Annie K.

  45. Talbert, one of Buffalo's leading colored young men, and was urged after marriage to reconsider her resignation and take up her work again.

  46. And presently Mrs. Cartwright was writing to her sisters: "A marriage has been arranged between the French Sergeant and the Hotel Spinster I described to you in my last.

  47. Olwen, behind that startled gaze of hers, was realizing that she, and she alone, was responsible for this projected marriage and for the way in which it would turn out, whether for good or ill.

  48. The face of the finest judge of marriage in Europe was a study.

  49. You said Marriage was a thing the sensible man looked at from every angle and then decided to cut out.

  50. She looked back and out to sea, as though she could see on the other side of that severing Atlantic the half-score of her splendid young countrymen who had offered her marriage as tribute is offered to a young queen.

  51. She ground the heel of her slender slipper into the floor of the lounge before her as she thought of this, and she thought, "Ah, if marriage were for a year, say!

  52. The marriage treaty fell through because the princess refused to profess the Roman Catholic faith.

  53. By her he had no less than eight children, but as the marriage was not, of course, really legal, none of those children could succeed him in the Electorate.

  54. But both the Queen mother and Charles were anxious for the French alliance, and the marriage took place notwithstanding Rupert's opposition.

  55. She had been first betrothed to the elder of the two, but George William being seized with a panic that marriage would bore him horribly, had persuaded his devoted brother Ernest to take the lady off his hands.

  56. The matter is this: Your mother and I have bin somewhat ingaged concerning a marriage between your brother Rupert and Mademoiselle de Rohan.

  57. The reason is, I believe, the marriage aforesaid.

  58. In the autumn of the same year he went to England, to attend the marriage of his cousin Mary with the little William of Orange, on {50} which occasion he quarrelled with the bridegroom for precedence.

  59. On the King's marriage he went with him to meet the bride at Dover; and, on this occasion, he scandalised the Portuguese by his rudeness.

  60. To-day, alas, many women cannot find the perfect and sensitive mate their hearts desire and they hope in any marriage to get children which will mitigate the consequent loneliness of their lives.

  61. Sometimes this depends on her conformation, but such an incapacity I often attribute to the girl's marriage being premature.

  62. All tend to replace early marriage by later marriage and parenthood to the obvious advantage of the race.

  63. Marriage and parenthood at fourteen, fifteen and sixteen, which once were common in almost every country, are being replaced by later marriage and parenthood.

  64. The instinct behind marriage is often a feeling of chivalrous devotion towards a tender and confiding girl, and the desire to give her every protection.

  65. Does this then mean that all marriage should be deferred till so late?

  66. Much has been written about the girl who marries a man to reform him; if the reformation is not completed during the engagement, the chances of success after marriage are small.

  67. The test of character is not whether one has or has not made a foolish marriage; the test comes after the foolish marriage has been made.

  68. You are definitely preparing yourself for marriage in strengthening your character by saying "no" now.

  69. There can be no narrowing of marriage to mere sex adjustment.

  70. Helen was really the one who brought about her marriage to William.

  71. Marriage is a partnership, not a debating society.

  72. Another reason for a complete physical examination before marriage is to determine whether it is possible for both parties to have children.

  73. Hence from the purely personal standpoint marriage is a priceless advantage.

  74. They have become convinced that there are facts about marriage that people have learned through experience, especially through the searching of the scientists, and they ask that they be given the advantage of this knowledge.

  75. Students in one of the larger California universities asked that a course in marriage relations be given--and a New York newspaper heralded it with a stick of type over about page 10.

  76. The natural mood of most men and women entering marriage is deeply monogamous.

  77. Containing full directions for Conducting a Courtship with Ladies of every age and Position in society, and valuable information for persons who desire to enter the marriage state.

  78. Thus three years passed away, but in the fourth the suitors found out my trick, and I know not how to avoid longer the marriage which I hate.

  79. Take it," she said, "as a memorial of Helen, and give it to thy bride when thy marriage day has come.

  80. Nor was this privilege rescinded, even though it had more than once entailed upon them the trouble of a contested succession; foreign kings often having claimed a right to the throne through marriage with an Egyptian princess.

  81. The first represented the equestrian contest of Pelops against Oenomaus, and in the second the Lapithæ were represented fighting with the centaurs at the marriage of Pirithous.

  82. Of the marriage contracts of the Egyptians we are entirely ignorant, nor do we even find the ceremony represented in the paintings of their tombs.

  83. But Kepheus answered, "Tarry with us yet a while, and the marriage feast shall be made ready, if indeed thou must hasten away from the Libyan land.

  84. In most cases Greek marriage was a matter of convenience, a man considering it his duty to provide for the legitimate continuation of his family.

  85. Such a marriage was, indeed, nothing but a form of concubinage.

  86. Even marriage did not change this state of things.

  87. The actual marriage ceremony, or leading home, was preceded by offerings to Zeus Teleios, Hera Teleia, Artemis Eukleia and other deities protecting marriage.

  88. His joy arrested his speech; for in Bernard’s assent to his marriage with Evaline, he conceived that the greatest obstacle to their union, even at an early period, was now removed.

  89. Something whispered Hildebrand, that, even if he could overcome his own scruples to such a course, a marriage with Evaline was now out of the question.

  90. I ask thee here, afore God and man, is this marriage to proceed?

  91. The marriage would be none the less hideously undesirable on the social side, and from the point of view of the family; but it would be infinitely more difficult to stop.

  92. Not much sympathy had been between the pair, but the ties of blood are stronger than is realised till "marriage or death or division" snaps the cord.

  93. By way of solace to her family pride she turned from the impending, disastrous marriage of the step-brother to that satisfying alliance her own brother had made.

  94. Deleah is a sweet girl, Francis; but in a marriage there is more than that to consider.

  95. In the old days Celeste had known his love for her, but after her marriage there had been no evidence, by word or deed, that she still lived uppermost in his affections.

  96. For many weeks after her marriage Justine dreamed of the fierce eyes and the desperate threats of this lover, and the only bar to complete happiness was the fear that 'Gene Crawley would some day wreak vengeance upon her husband.

  97. Justine should never know of his marriage to Celeste; that was the one thing the honest, virtuous country girl would not forgive.

  98. Since their marriage day they had not been separated for more than twelve consecutive hours.

  99. Had this marriage come five years earlier everything would have been different.

  100. Affairs had reached the stage where it seemed next to impossible to acknowledge his marriage to Justine, and he certainly could not tell that honest, trusting wife of his unfortunate duplicity.

  101. She begged for an appointment as teacher in the humble schoolhouse where her a-b-abs had been learned, and for two years and a half before her marriage she had taught the little flock of boys and girls.

  102. As he made his arrangements for the marriage he was afraid that something like conscience might overthrow him before his desires could be realized.

  103. For many days after their marriage Jud and Justine were obliged to endure coarse jokes, kindly meant if out of tune with their sensitive minds.

  104. Celeste saw her every hope slipping away as she listened to the story of the courtship and marriage in the little country lane.

  105. All the marriage vows in the land could not bind her to him in law.

  106. Your money may make marriage more possible with a girl who has been extravagantly brought up, but that needn't prevent her really caring for you.

  107. You refer, I suppose, to marriage or its equivalent?

  108. The great Roderick Currie, my grandfather many times removed in the direct line, invited here once seven lairds of the neighbouring country for some marriage celebrations.

  109. It was last Hallowe'en where starlight and dew Made mystical marriage on flower and leaf, That she led me with looks of a love that I knew, And lured with the voice of a heart-buried grief.

  110. Now with the marriage of the lip and beaker Let Joy be born!

  111. Strange to say, I could now contemplate her approaching marriage with equanimity.

  112. I have to announce my daughter's approaching marriage to your comrade, Henry Ormesby.


  113. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marriage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    marriage badge; marriage between; marriage ceremony; marriage certificate; marriage contract; marriage custom; marriage customs; marriage feast; marriage license; marriage portion; marriage with; marriage would