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Marriage

noun

The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce). Synonyms: matrimony, spousal relationship, union, wedlock. "God bless this union"

Two people who are married to each other. Synonyms: man and wife, married couple. "A married couple without love"

The act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony. Synonyms: marriage ceremony, wedding.

A close and intimate union. "A marriage of ideas"

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"Marriage" Quotes from Famous Books

... year before some of the captured leaders of the Commune met their fate. Those condemned were shot at the Buttes of Satory,—an immense amphitheatre holding twenty thousand people, where the emperor on one of his fetes, in the early days of his marriage, gave a great free hippodrome performance, to the intense ...

— France in the Nineteenth Century • Elizabeth Latimer

... the Court had not proceeded so happily for Bach as heretofore, and in the year of his marriage he made a journey to Hamburg with the object of competing for the post of organist at the Jacobi-Kirche. His playing on this occasion excited the greatest admiration, though, as a matter of fact, this was not the first time he had awakened the enthusiasm ...

— Story-Lives of Great Musicians • Francis Jameson Rowbotham

... you my humble service. I see Yasodhara, the noble princess, Pine patiently away and spend in mourning Her life's best years of youth and happiness. She has been cruelly deserted, has Been widowed by Siddhattha for a whim. Give her to me in marriage, and I'll prove A better father than that runaway, A better father to your little grandson, A better ...

— The Buddha - A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes • Paul Carus

... the bed that had been his brother's marriage bed. The low white ceiling sagged and bulged above him. For three nights the room had been as if Nicky and Veronica had never gone from it. They had compelled him to think of them. They had lain where he lay, falling asleep ...

— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair

... and by degrees they did have an effect upon Mary Lowther. She learned to believe that it was probable that Captain Marrable should marry Miss Brownlow, and, of course, asked herself questions as to the effect such a marriage would have upon herself, which she answered more fully than she did those which were put to her by her aunt. Then there came to Parson John some papers, which required his signature, in reference to the disposal of a small ...

— The Vicar of Bullhampton • Anthony Trollope

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