hymeneal

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Do you not recollect that eighteen years have run their circuit, since we pledged our mutual faith, and the hymeneal torch was lighted at the altar of love?

From Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

To my dark lot no bridal joys Belong, nor e’er the jocund noise p. 50Of hymeneal chant shall sound for me, But death, cold death, my only spouse shall be.

From Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 by Kingsley, Charles

What would the world say when it should have become known that he intended to lead Lady Frances to the "hymeneal altar?"

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony

The value of living—which is loving; the sacredest wonders of life; all that is fairest and of best delight in thought, in feeling, yea, in substance,—all are apprehended under the floral crown and hymeneal veil.

From Dr. Sevier by Cable, George Washington

Freddy has said many a charming thing about the pear-blossom; about nature's awakening; about the hymeneal birds—things that, as Prue says, are almost poetry just as he speaks them, without any alteration.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda