spousals

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No, no—no spousals for me: let John Cross and the bride be ready or not, there shall be a party wanting to that contract!

From Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by Simms, William Gilmore

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 Way, Arthur Sanders

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

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

In one is seen the spousals of Santa Caterina, a piece so extremely infantile, that it would be difficult to find a similar example in Italy.

From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Lanzi, Luigi Antonio