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Example sentences for "nuptial"

Lexicographically close words:
nuo; nuove; nuper; nupta; nuptiae; nuptiall; nuptials; nuptias; nuptiis; nur
  1. The rumor had spread that these thirteen recalcitrant cardinals would not be present at the nuptial benediction to be given to Napoleon and Marie Louise the next day in the Salon Carré of the Louvre.

  2. If he should not get here till the 3d of March, they will manage to postpone the nuptial blessing till the 11th, when it is hoped that the documents will have come back again.

  3. This prelate persists in saying to-day that he cannot give the nuptial blessing until he has seen the document which I have sent back to Your Excellency, of which, too, M.

  4. Now the postponement of the nuptial blessing can be ascribed only to the circumstances which have prolonged the journey of the Prince of Neufchâtel.

  5. Knights, whom toils of arms employ, With the free may laugh and toy; But the modest only, choose When they tie the nuptial noose.

  6. The bridal pair proceeded towards a theatre on one side of the arbor, decorated with tapestry and garlands, where the nuptial ceremony was to be performed, and whence they were to view the dances and shows prepared for the occasion.

  7. Of many a dainty dame and damosel The coveted nuptial couches he rejecteth; for naught can e'er, pure Love!

  8. The nuptial seat was in the midst of an estrade.

  9. At the door the sultan commanded the vizier to mark it, so that he might know it again, being resolved, when the nuptial festivities should be concluded, to send for the ladies and hear their story.

  10. In short, the nuptial ceremony was performed, when I said to myself, "Heavens!

  11. As soon as the genie had set down the nuptial bed in its proper place, the sultan tapped at the door to wish her good morning.

  12. The bride repaired to the nuptial chamber, whither her attendants followed to undress her, and none remained in the hall but the hump-back groom, Buddir ad Deen, and some of the domestics.

  13. Accordingly, having rendered himself invisible, he waited in the nuptial chamber, and upon her entering bore her off, and soared into the air.

  14. About midnight Alla ad Deen's mother conducted the bride to the nuptial apartment, and he soon after retired.

  15. The conditions of marriage, however, were somewhat complicated, as it was always necessary to secure the consent of three persons before a girl of the higher class could go to the altar in nuptial array.

  16. Those for Hibernia's lusty sons repair With art the charms which Nature could not spare; These after husbands wing their eager flight, Nor leave much mystery for the nuptial night.

  17. And Hymen shall thy nuptial hopes consume, Unless, like fond Pygmalion, thou canst wed Statues thy hand could never give to bloom.

  18. And Angus said, if one year more In fruitless hope was pass'd away, His fondest scruples should be o'er, And he would name their nuptial day.

  19. Soft as the sighs the charming Virgin breath'd The first dear night of the chast nuptial vow.

  20. Meanwhile, after completing the nuptial union, the priest stepped back to the altar to continue the Mass, and the couple, now bound for life, returned to their places.

  21. It was another march, the one with which the knights and ladies of Thuringia accompanied Elsa of Brabant and Lohengrin, the son of Parsifal, to the nuptial chamber.

  22. I urge, then, that those who attempt to direct young men through the mazes of sexual life should hold up ideals not only of pre-marital continence, but also of post-nuptial temperance and harmonious adjustment between husband and wife.

  23. He felt a delicate vibration in the air, the last tender resonance of the nuptial song.

  24. The French ambassador and Mr. Walton were the life of the festive board, and infused an element of gayety which the small assemblage would have lacked without their aid, for a happy silence had fallen upon the nuptial party.

  25. When the nuptial procession entered, the suppressed murmur of many voices sounded like the rushing of distant waves.

  26. What bride does not smile when she sees the sun shine into her chamber on the nuptial morning?

  27. The following week it was arranged his betrothal should be announced, and the dichos declared--the custom of avowing publicly the mutual acceptance of nuptial obligations, which in Spain corresponds with our "calling the banns.

  28. He has not yet, moreover, attained the fullest beauty of his nuptial plumage.

  29. A nuptial festival or ceremony; a marriage.

  30. Nor is this all, for the nuptial rite itself is performed by these woodpeckers upon the ground--a strange thing, surely, in a bird belonging to so arboreal a family.

  31. All at once two other ones flew out from the enclosure, and, alighting together upon the greensward, a curious play, which I took to be of a nuptial character, commenced between them.

  32. My own idea is that the nuptial rite is, sometimes at least, performed on the ground, but of this I have had no more than an indication.

  33. These are the casamientos; the nuptial mass, or marriage accompanied by it, the velacion.

  34. Fees of the sacristans: For aiding at nuptial masses and the benediction, [26] the sacristan shall ask for each two reals.

  35. The fever of post-nuptial felicity was strong upon Harry just then, but he did not attempt to deny the imputation.

  36. It's not revenge for any wife to stain The nuptial bed, although she be yok'd ill.

  37. Nay, my dear love: know that I will not yield My body unto lust, until the priest Shall join us in Hymen's sacred nuptial rites.

  38. The Bushreen complied with the request; and in order, as he pretended, to render the saphies more efficacious, enjoined the young man to avoid any nuptial intercourse with his bride for the space of six weeks.

  39. Such a moral test may once have been common, but seems to have been lost except among the Seri; though a curious vestige appears in the anti-nuptial treatment of the bridegroom, in the Salish tribe.

  40. The marriage-contract also specified the sums that the husband was to pay to his wife, either as a nuptial gift or annual pension, or as compensation in case of divorce.

  41. William Wynne, the minister who had performed the fatal nuptial ceremony of the fair bride, read the funeral services over her dead body.

  42. Hannah also arose and went to her room to change her plain brown calico gown for a fine black silk dress and mantle that had been Reuben Gray's nuptial present to her, and a straw bonnet trimmed with blue.

  43. Vain, O my father, vain thy nuptial vows, Brought to this speedy end: For when my mother died in ruin sank our house!

  44. To mourn single is pain endurable; to see children wasting with disease, to see death invading the nuptial bed--that is the pang unbearable!

  45. Rosamund; her jealousy whispering that the mention of his name close upon Cecilia Halkett's might have a nuptial signification.


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