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Sentences starting with marriage

Marriage is not to be lightly entered into. [9]
Marriage is a simple business, but divorce is a very different thing. [6]
Marriage with Bent-Anat seemed to him beset with difficulties. [10]
Marriage will presently round it out and perfect it. [5]
Marriage is scarcely reckoned among the sacred things of life. [10]
Marriage had not made her into a woman; it had driven her back into an arrested youth. [11]
Marriage is no longer what it was, and people are coming to look upon it more sensibly. [9]
Marriage must at least rid me of these gloomy spectres. [10]
Marriage she hath ever contemned and hated; men she hath desired to keep her faithful and impassioned servitors. [11]
Marriage is a condition, but love must be an action. [11]

Sentences ending with marriage

Take off all your useless ornaments and only wear the chain the king gave you on your marriage. [10]
Surely that isn't your idea of marriage! [9]
Some apes, however, would probably declare that they could and did admire the beauty of the coloured skin and fur of their partners in marriage. [1]
Jealousy!--I believe she would be capable of the worst--" "Yet," Dion interrupted, "Charmian will soften whatever injury Iras plans to do me, and, though I cannot rely much upon my uncle, Archibius is above both and favours us and our marriage. [10]
They comb their wool up to a peak and keep it in position by stiffening it with brown-red clay--half of this tower colored, denotes engagement; the whole of it colored denotes marriage. [5]
Her heart burned with fresh bitterness to think that there had been a secret marriage. [11]
This then was why her grandfather had received no letter from him concerning the marriage. [11]
The Church to which I belong, and whose teachings I respect, does not recognize such a marriage. [9]
But tell me, what is this about our marriage? [10]
For example, he was opposed to marriage. [5]

Short sentences using marriage

And this was marriage! [9]
Abelard denied the marriage! [5]
It was the marriage licence. [11]
That isn't marriage. [9]
Nothing but marriage. [9]
Is it marriage? [9]
A marriage license! [9]
A secret marriage! [11]
Marriage? [4]
Marriage? [11]

Sentences containing marriage two or more times

That this intimacy would have resulted in marriage, or an offer of marriage, if the lady's affections had not been preoccupied, the Fosters seem to have believed. [4]
In regard to this project of marriage for me, I will tell you, dear sweet friend, that I look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must conform. [2]
He had been sure there would be no rebellion of the Maroons, and he was equally sure that his career would be made hugely successful by marriage with Sheila Llyn--but the Maroons had revolted, and the marriage was not settled! [11]
But the marriage service, interpreted, means that we will use all our human endeavour, with the help of the Spirit, to remain in what may be called the reborn state, since it is by the Spirit alone that true marriage is sanctified. [9]
In our modern notion of marriage, which is getting itself expressed in statute law, marriage is supposed to rest on mutual trust and mutual rights. [4]
Is a marriage less a marriage because a heretic is the husband? [11]
She had given him the fatal blue certificate of his marriage and the marriage could now be ended with Luzanne's consent, for she would not fight the divorce he must win soon. [11]
She may have heard, doubtless she had, similar theories that were prevalent at that day, theories of the tyranny of marriage and of the freedom of marriage. [5]
Which offers the best chance of happiness,--a marriage between two persons of the same country, or a marriage where one of the parties is of foreign birth? [6]
A marriage, to be a marriage, should be proof against disturbing influences, should leave the individuals free; the binding element should be love, not the force of an imposed authority. [9]

More example sentences with the word marriage in them

I cannot expect you, who have known the happiness of marriage, to realize the tortures of it without love. [9]
See you, see you, Iberville: what of the lady Puritan's marriage with the fire-eating Englishman? [11]
As I said, you had marriage without love. [11]
A few more years in the service, and our savings and the pension together will be enough to support us there and lay aside a little marriage dowry for our daughter. [10]
If in seven years after marriage a man could buy a mattress and a sack of chaff to rest his head on, he thought himself as well lodged as a lord. [4]
In the first year of their marriage he used to consult her about all his schemes, and value her keen understanding. [4]
And if she wrote them, they might try to stop the marriage, or at least to delay it for some years. [9]
Between ourselves, he would like to be appointed regent of Persia while the king is away at the Massagetan war, and would therefore give a great deal to connect himself by marriage in some way or other with the Archemenidae. [10]
In most, rashness would be the outcome of such a marriage of characteristics; but clear-sightedness, decision, and a little unscrupulousness had carried into success many daring actions of his life. [11]
With Irene marriage would be either supreme happiness or extreme wretchedness, no half-way acceptance of a conventional life. [4]
After all (Mr. Worthington reflected), he had consented to the marriage, and there was no use in bringing Jethro's name into the conversation. [9]
The prince has wooed her, so to speak, on the highway, but if she now comes with me he can enter the palace of kings as suitor to a princess, and the marriage feast I will provide shall be a right royal one. [10]
Mr. Shoreham, who witnessed the marriage, is dead. [11]
Since Fabian's marriage with Junia Shale's sister, Sybil, he had become discontented with his position in his father's firm. [11]
He caught up with her, devoured her with his eyes, and beheld in marriage a delirium. [9]
Speaking thickly and with a faraway look in his shining eyes, he told the whole story of his life: his marriage, Natasha's love for his best friend, her betrayal of him, and all his own simple relations with her. [2]
No marriage is wisely contracted without consideration of "stock. [4]
I don't know why marriage should suddenly have become such a mockery and failure in our time, but I know that it is, that ours hasn't been such an exception as I once thought. [9]
We didn't know what they meant, or how to set about their accomplishment, but they were not, at least, mere selfish aspirations; they implied, unconsciously no doubt, an element of service, and certainly our ideal of marriage had something fine in it. [9]
Many and great were the difficulties attending the marriage of a Protestant princess in those troublous times, and Elizabeth finally announced that she would become wedded to the English nation, and she wore a ring in token thereof until her death. [5]
If every one were as perfect in the marriage relation as those who are reading these lines, the question of the wife's letters would never arise. [4]
She was what we called in those days "intellectual," and had gone in for kindergartens, and after her marriage she turned out to be excessively domestic; practising her theories, with entire success, upon a family that showed a tendency to increase at an alarming rate. [9]
Clearly, the thing was to go on as before, keep his marriage secret, meet the Countess, apparently accede to all the Duke proposed, and wait--and wait. [11]
Most like it was that love for a cause, which was more to be encouraged by her than any woman's love for a man, which as she grew older inspired her with aversion, as talk of marriage brought cynical allusions to her lips. [11]
About this time was solemnized the marriage of John Laydon and Anne Burrows, the first in Virginia. [4]
But now he was on the way to marriage, and it was as well that there should be no new situations. [11]
Yet no man was known to have loved her, or even to have offered himself to her in marriage. [6]
The ingenious Greek was honored by receiving the king's hand to kiss, his expenses were reimbursed by a magnificent present, and he was urged to take a daughter of some noble Persian family in marriage. [10]
The curious thing was he had not had a word from her since the day of the mock marriage. [11]
How lucky it was he had denied the marriage and demanded that Roudin produce the woman! [11]
Not a topic was broached by Mr. Walpole or Mr. Fox, from the remonstrance of the Archbishop against masquerades and the coming marriage of my Lord Albemarle to the rights and wrongs of Mr. Wilkes, but my lady had her say. [9]
Monsieur le Vicomte was between forty and fifty at his marriage, and from what I have heard of him he had many of the virtues and many of the faults of his order. [9]
The marriage contract was before them. [11]
The promised marriage was a matter for the man's mirth a week later. [11]
Then why the vows of the Church at baptism, at confirmation, at marriage? [11]
He could not very clearly remember the tones of her voice, because after marriage, and before he had sent her to England, he had seen little or nothing of her. [11]
Among those who ventured to doubt the justifiability of the proposed marriage was Helene's mother, Princess Kuragina. [2]
W. Darwin Fox, used to assemble from all parts of Delamere Forest, in order to celebrate the "great magpie marriage. [1]
Your father commissioned us to create peaceful Demeter, the patroness of agriculture, peace, marriage, and Arachne, the mortal who was the most skilful of spinners; for he is both a grain dealer and owner of spinning factories. [10]
She still looked upon Frank's marriage as a scandal. [11]
It was drawn up shortly after their marriage. [4]
Break up this union, this marriage of love in which these two rejoiced? [11]
When, after an unhappy marriage and many desolate days, she had regained her former bright cheerfulness and saw her house become the centre of the intellectual life of the city, she had striven until now to extend the same welcome to all her guests. [10]
Now as I understand it, there is only one kind of marriage that is sacred to royalty, exclusive to royalty: it's the morganatic. [5]
I had been twice invited to weddings in that famous room: once to the marriage of my friend Motley's daughter, then to that of Mr. Frederick Locker's daughter to Lionel Tennyson, whose recent death has been so deeply mourned. [6]
And isn't marriage truer and higher when man and wife start with difficulties and problems to solve together? [9]
She had been too far withdrawn from fashion since her marriage to know whether it was still so or not. [8]
His marriage, according to this, was a pure work of supererogation. [4]
Give your consent to the marriage, and Jethro Bass will go back to Coniston. [9]
She said yes to the man, the time was fixed for the marriage, and it came along. [11]
The marriage was to take place in the "abode of peace. [10]
If you desire to see your daughter forever in fear of death, give her in marriage to Caracalla. [10]
To-morow they come to see my marriage annulled by the Church. [11]
You don't mean to say that George Eliot, and Mrs. Gaskell, and George Sand, and Mrs. Browning, before her marriage and severe attack of spiritism, are less true to art than contemporary men novelists and poets. [4]
She has come to realize that she has only one life to live, and she seems happier, more composed, more herself than she has ever been since our marriage. [9]
It always seemed to him that there was something not quite right about this intended marriage. [2]
And it seemed to her, though she had never philosophized it, that a marriage such as she believed she had made was the woman's way to the greatest happiness and usefulness. [4]
It had something to do with a so-called secret marriage, and it would be good to get hold of the man, Roudin, as soon as possible. [11]
I never meant to disavow our marriage. [11]
She learned how to cook, and in time Farette learned that he had his one true inspiration when he wore mourning at his second marriage. [11]
I had begun to convince myself that nothing could, when suddenly I came face to face with the consequences of a possible marriage between Nick and Mademoiselle Antoinette. [9]
Adrian, we are to celebrate a beautiful festival to-day, the anniversary of our marriage. [10]
He believed himself to blame for this state of things, so the marriage took place. [5]
She had wept, to be sure, at her husband's confession, and lain awake over it in the night watches, and thought of the early days of their marriage. [9]
There is more to be said about the chances for a successful marriage in these days, but I'm not going to dwell on that now, or attempt to shoulder off my shortcomings on my bringing up, on the civilization in which we have lived. [9]
This is supposed to be his third wife, though there is no note of his marriage to her nor of the death of his first. [4]
If this is to be accepted, then this paragraph must have been written in England in 1616, and have referred to the marriage to Rolfe it "some two years since," in 1614. [4]
The marriage was to be a very quiet one--the bridegroom's father lay seriously ill. [10]
If marriage is to be a mere trial of compatibility, why go through a ceremony than which there is none more binding in human and divine institutions? [9]
But now the time was at hand when she must prepare them for her marriage with Chiltern; for they would expect her in St. Louis, and she could not go there. [9]
For the first time since her marriage comparisons crept into her mind, and she awoke to the fact that he was not a masterful man--even among men. [9]
It was not till seven months after the fire at Pelusium that Pentaur's marriage with Bent-Anat was solemnized in the palace of the Pharaohs at Thebes; but time and the sorrows he had suffered had only united their hearts more closely. [10]
She only remained three days, as she had to go to the neighbourhood of Leeds, there to make such purchases as were required for her marriage. [14]
At first she thought there had been oblique references to her husband, but these remarks about marriage would certainly exclude him. [11]
One day the thought struck him that he would ask for the hand of the King of Egypt's daughter in marriage, and he sent a great embassy to Sais, with his own brother to do the wooing for him--" "What nonsense! [10]
If she had thought of them apprehensively, she would have said to herself, how easy to set all right by simply announcing the marriage! [11]
But when he thought of the marriage, Isaac Worthington ground his teeth. [9]
She has never thought of marriage. [4]
I had not thought of marriage before he went away. [11]
It was as though he had brought into the room, marshalled behind him, all the horrors of her marriage, and she marvelled and shuddered anew at the thought of the years of that sufferance. [9]
Both had crossed this threshold for the first time for four years, that is since the marriage of Mena with Nefert, and the old enmity seemed now to have given way to heartfelt reconciliation and mutual understanding. [10]
I was against this marriage even then and foretold all that has happened. [2]
For a man there is always present the chance of winning a vast fortune and the power that it brings; but it can seldom come to a woman except through marriage. [11]
I'd been telling them stories and they used them as a means of tempting me to act in the absurd marriage ceremony. [11]
It was scarcely the way in which a school-teacher should receive the advances of the first citizen, come to give a gracious consent to her marriage with his son. [9]
In their view, the Union, as a family relation, would seem to be no regular marriage, but rather a sort of "free-love" arrangement, to be maintained on passional attraction. [7]
And you are the tree and I am the graft, and the magic power of marriage has made us one. [10]
Then he approached the subject of marriage with the daughter of the American Claimant with a good deal of caution and much painstaking art. [5]
Some comments upon the story suggested that it was impossible for a man to spend the night on the prairie with a woman whom he loved without causing her to forget her marriage vows. [11]
After her came the river-god Nile, the bridegroom of the marriage, studied from the famous statue carried away from Alexandria by the Romans: a splendid and mighty bearded man, resting against an urn. [10]
Some hold that the purpose is to enable a woman to dispense with marriage, while others maintain that it is to fit a woman for the higher duties of the married life. [4]
The lady from the Minories recounted a successful course of treatment under which she had placed her own husband, who, from manifesting one month after marriage unequivocal symptoms of the tiger, had by this means become subdued into a perfect lamb. [12]
They can tempt the men whom they prefer, and can sometimes reject those whom they dislike, either before or after marriage. [1]
The morning after the marriage there was a sad surprise for her. [5]
He had avoided the marriage so long as he might, in hope of preventing it until the Duke should die, but with the irony of fate the expected death had come two hours after the ceremony. [11]
K. Beecher in the marriage ceremony. [5]
I mean about the marriage business. [5]
Barine's marriage to the man who possessed her heart was close at hand, and she was the daughter of Leonax, who had once been dear to her. [10]
The same day the great news of Myrtle Hazard's accession to fortune came out, the secret was told that she had promised herself in marriage to Mr. Clement Lindsay. [6]
What had been the governing influence in their marriage where she was concerned? [11]

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