spousals

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Let dull Octavia Survive, to mourn him dead: My nobler fate Shall knit our spousals with a tie, too strong For Roman laws to break.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir

The Erinyes and the ruthless Fates,   For Helen's spousals madly wroth, through Troy   Dart on wild wings.

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders

What deed of outrage, Phoebus, hast thou done   This day, forgetful of that day whereon   To godlike Peleus' spousals gathered all   The Immortals?

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders

Seuenthly, he despightfully abaseth our solemnizings of marriages, spousals, birth-dayes, and our customes at burials.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard

Thyself didst bring to pass   Those spousals of a Goddess: on that day   All we Immortals feasted there, and gave   Gifts passing-fair.

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders