hymeneal

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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 Addams, Jane

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 Judson, L. Carroll

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

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

They completed their walk to the house of the hymeneal merrymaking in a bitter silence, both very miserable.

From True and Other Stories by Lathrop, George Parsons