hymeneal
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There are, we take it, about three ways which lead to what the provincial reporter delights to term “the hymeneal altar.”
From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford
These were commingled with those of an accomplished daughter of Alderman Bedford of Philadelphia and were consolidated in one at the hymeneal altar before he left the city of brotherly love.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
They completed their walk to the house of the hymeneal merrymaking in a bitter silence, both very miserable.
From True and Other Stories by George Parsons Lathrop
Just now his appearance—neat, shabby, pathetic, the superior workingman in his long-preserved, threadbare Sunday clothes—introduced disturbing notes into the swelling hymeneal chant to which Claude felt himself to be marching.
From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by Basil King
An additional proof of his good sense was exhibited by his leading to the hymeneal altar the amiable Miss Jane Van Ness who proved worthy of the noble man of her judicious choice.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
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