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Example sentences for "matrimony"

Lexicographically close words:
matrimonial; matrimonie; matrimonii; matrimonio; matrimonium; matris; matrix; matron; matrone; matronly
  1. Many a noble ship of matrimony has been wrecked hopelessly upon the jagged rocks of misunderstanding.

  2. They are quite justified in looking forward to matrimony as their true career.

  3. Of an oracion demonstratiue / wherein are praised neither persones nor actes / but some other thynges / as religion / matrimony / or suche other.

  4. I have given him my consent to visit my daughter, but at the same time have restricted him from mentioning matrimony until he have consulted his father.

  5. Banns of Matrimony are to be published according to the rubric, &c.

  6. The candidates for matrimony were occasionally not over-honest, as--"Had a noise for foure hours about the Money.

  7. Of course, the Parisienne did not hesitate an instant about becoming the wife of un avocat; for, agreeably to her habits, matrimony was a legitimate means of bettering her condition in life.

  8. But these tales revived and died so often, in a state of society in which matrimony is so general a topic with the young of the gentler sex, that they brought with them their own refutation.

  9. What has justice, or truth, or even probability, to do with a report, of which love and matrimony are the themes?

  10. And what connexion could you find between matrimony and this accident, captain?

  11. This conception of matrimony and of the family may seem unromantic, prosaic, materialistic; but we must not suppose that because of it the Romans failed to experience the tenderest and sweetest affections of the human heart.

  12. The individualistic conception of matrimony and of the family attained by our civilization was alien to the Roman mind, which conceived of these from an essentially political and social point of view.

  13. Mr. Watkins Tottle had long lived in a state of single blessedness, as bachelors say, or single cursedness, as spinsters think; but the idea of matrimony had never ceased to haunt him.

  14. The sealing ordinance extends to other associations than those of matrimony as will be shown.

  15. The ordinary rite of matrimony as established by secular law, and as prescribed by sectarian rule, unites the man and the woman for this world only; the higher law of marriage as divinely revealed joins the parties for time and eternity.

  16. Why are Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders, and Matrimony called Sacraments of the living?

  17. Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders, and Matrimony are called Sacraments of the living, because those who receive them worthily are already living the life of grace.

  18. The Sacrament of Matrimony is the Sacrament which unites a Christian man and woman in lawful marriage.

  19. To receive the Sacrament of matrimony worthily is it necessary to be in the state of grace?

  20. To receive the Sacrament of Matrimony worthily it is necessary to be in the state of grace, and it is necessary also to comply with the laws of the Church.

  21. Matrimony does not illumine the difference so vividly, because matrimony, with all its disillusions, leaves her an unembarrassed conscience.

  22. My experience of matrimony was not fortunate," answered Heriot, smoking slowly, but with inward perturbation.

  23. He had avoided matrimony till he was thirty because he could not afford it; and during the last decade he had escaped it because he had not met a woman whom he desired sufficiently to pay such a price.

  24. Your experience of matrimony was a colossal folly.

  25. In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.

  26. Matrimony was her object, provided she could marry well: and having seen Mr. Bertram in town, she knew that objection could no more be made to his person than to his situation in life.

  27. When two sympathetic hearts meet in the marriage state, matrimony may be called a happy life.

  28. Johnson's celebrated judgment as to matrimony and celibacy, and say, that though Mansfield Park might have some pains, Portsmouth could have no pleasures.

  29. He was to be describing and recommending matrimony to me.

  30. Without the latter matrimony for me would have been a dream.

  31. Love and love only could make the chains of matrimony bearable.

  32. The hundred-and-one occasions rose up before us in which we had saved him from ladies with matrimony on the brain, from intrigues, from his susceptible self.

  33. His bent was not matrimony for himself, and he cared but little who should inhabit Gatestone after his death.

  34. She was the only person who had advocated the cause of matrimony to Juvenal--it was dreadful to her the idea of the old place passing away to another branch of the family.

  35. Why was it, I asked, that matrimony should ever single out the young and fair?

  36. Matrimony is all right," said he, "if properly brought about.

  37. No, ma'am, matrimony and the stage don't mix.

  38. They ought to nail over every stage door this warning: 'All ye who enter here, leave matrimony outside.

  39. Lovers of to-day are more given to considering how to make housekeeping as easy as matrimony than to writing sonnets to their mistresses' eyebrows.

  40. It is the expense attending the process that makes matrimony the exception and not the rule amongst these people.

  41. Perhaps they marry, and be it distinctly understood, whatever has been said to the contrary, the estate of matrimony amongst her class is not lightly esteemed.

  42. The state of matrimony is not good for such folk.

  43. The ideal homemaker of the future will be a woman who has had a personal income, and preferably one that she has earned herself and learned how to spend before she enters upon matrimony and motherhood.

  44. As long as it is man who proposes, matrimony will be promotion for a woman.

  45. The first act of matrimony should be a careful and sympathetic study of character, the laying down of a little plan of campaign full of considerate concessions and well-conceived resolutions.

  46. If I were a woman of robust health, rich or poor, and I had no fascination for men, and matrimony had no fascination for me, I would become a nurse.

  47. In matrimony it is not 'All is well that ends well': it is All is well that begins well, and not too well.

  48. The whole problem of happiness in matrimony lies in this nutshell.

  49. The only chance of success in matrimony is that there should not be one single reproach which, in the inevitable moments of friction, may ever be hurled by one at the face of the other.

  50. Remember that you enter the holy estate of matrimony with a certain capital of love.

  51. He tells you that matrimony was ordained for a remedy against sin.

  52. If she refused to accept matrimony as a means of livelihood (the hardest and most thankless of all), her example should be followed.

  53. The life of a successful woman unfits her for matrimony and its peaceful joys.

  54. Never try matrimony as an experiment--that is to say, never before you are absolutely certain you will prefer it to all the rest.

  55. She will do without a drawing-room, but never without a dressing-room, for she understands to a supreme degree that poetry of matrimony which has not two years to live if the apartment does not possess a dressing-room.

  56. Look me now in the face, and say I did not commit matrimony with thee!

  57. After which, I lovingly invited you to take your place in your nuptial bed, as the laws of matrimony oblige you; and you inhumanly refused me.


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