hymeneal
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There lies the fatal weakness of all this frenzy over liberty and this hymeneal chanting of sky and ocean; it has no basis in the homely facts of the heart.
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer
Bound together in conjugal sympathy, by ever-vibrating telegraph wires, what could have been more satisfactory and highly fashionable than these hymeneal relations?
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
He was twice married, but at what period his first hymeneal union occurred we are not informed—it was inauspicious.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell
But when that her heart was all his own, his love grew cold, and, turning from her, he refused to fulfil his plighted troth and lead her to the hymeneal altar.
From Rossmoyne by Unknown
Men will stand mateless, and the ruins of the hymeneal altars everywhere crumble mournfully away, and be known to tradition only by their vanishing inscriptions: "To the unknown god."
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
