spousals
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Seuenthly, he despightfully abaseth our solemnizings of marriages, spousals, birth-dayes, and our customes at burials.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Richard Hakluyt
This marks the Churl: when spousals crown His selfish hope, he finds the grace, Which sweet love has for ev'n the clown, Was not in the woman, but the chace.
From Angel in the House by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Thyself didst bring to pass Those spousals of a Goddess: on that day All we Immortals feasted there, and gave Gifts passing-fair.
From The Fall of Troy by Arthur Sanders Way
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
There reigned throughout, an order and purity, an orderly disposition, as if by way of making ready for some gracious spousals.
From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Walter Pater
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