hymeneal

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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

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

Always the same quiet, prim woman, ready at proper times to do her duty; to arrange hassocks at a christening, or to point out the positions for the actors at a hymeneal sacrifice.

From A Little World by Fenn, George Manville

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)

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