hymeneal
Example Sentences
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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 Charles Kingsley
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Swinburne expresses his Hellenic longings by his hymeneal strains, Matthew Arnold by sweetness and light, Gilbert Murray by sweetness and pathos—and all through the divine right of Victorian expansion.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
She listened to the hymeneal god, who, attended by nymphs, stepped forward and, to the accompaniment of sweet music, sang a wedding-song specially composed for the occasion.
From Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes
