spousals
Example Sentences
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I come with high spousals to grace thee, "In me the great conqueror of conquerors see; "Enthroned in a hall fit for monarchs I'll place thee, "And mine, thou'rt for ever, thou high-born Ladye!"
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael
Conceive, Fred, what the fair young creature must have felt at the bare idea of such shocking spousals!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
This can only be explained by the rules current at the time regarding spousals.
From Elizabethan Demonology by Spalding, Thomas Alfred
He maketh revels and feasts and spousals, and giveth many good gifts to friends and guests, and comforteth and gladdeth his guests with songs and pipes and other minstrelsy of music.
From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert
Louder swelled that strain; And still the Bride of God, that church late dark, Glad of her saintly spousals, laughed and shone In radiance ever freshening.
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey
