holy wedlock
Example Sentences
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Ever since the war, thousands of Austrian couples have been living together without benefit of holy wedlock.
From Time Magazine Archive
While he was in jail she entered into holy wedlock with a rumshop keeper from Jamaica and sailed away with her husband.
From Time Magazine Archive
Written, produced and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, Facts of Life inquires with wicked glee into the nature of the tie that binds men and women in holy wedlock.
From Time Magazine Archive
He said "if there be any present who have any objections to this couple being joined together in holy wedlock, let them speak now, or hold their peace henceforth."
From Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself by Bibb, Henry
Prior to this time I had been courting the country; now I was to be united with it in that holy wedlock which binds the farmer to the soil he tills.
From Vandemark's Folly by Quick, Herbert
