hymeneal

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Here E——'s chaste vows, and proffer'd love, With Hymeneal garlands interwove, And injur'd D——'s unavailing sighs, Together form an ample sacrifice.

From The First of April Or, The Triumphs of Folly: A Poem Dedicated to a Celebrated Duchess. By the author of The Diaboliad. by Combe, William

Foster-brother, I have heard that measure to a Hymeneal Song.

From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

What the deuce does a mariage de convenance mean but all this, and are not such sober Hymeneal torches more satisfactory often than the most brilliant love matches that ever flamed and burnt out?

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

I was content, in the language of the newspapers, to lead to the Hymeneal altar any fashionable fair one whose fortune came under the sixth place of figures.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 04 by Edgeworth, Maria

No softer emotion than ambition had suggested the thought, and after a patient balancing of the opposing weights of selfishness, he had utterly thrown aside the thought of entangling himself in any Hymeneal snares.

From Infelice by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)