"Matrimony" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there a coon's age with brother Virgil, who moved down from the Yok, last fall, and went into the pork trade. Virgil's married, same as you four, but I'll be dadbanged if he wasn't fooled in his woman. I tell you, Mrs. Danvers, matrimony ain't always sich honey in the comb as Warren is swallerin'. Virgil's wife looks nice, but Spanish flies! how he enjoys her going away from home. Well, that's that. I went down on the Enterprise. You've rid in a steamboat, I dare ...
— A Dream of Empire - Or, The House of Blennerhassett • William Henry Venable
... seas, straits, gulphs, ports, havens, lands, creeks. Oh! Here it begins. "Season, spring, wind standing at point Desire— The good ship Matrimony—Commander. Blanford, Esq. ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb
... had both much better just go on as we are." She didn't however on this occasion meet her constant companion with that syllogism, because a formidable force seemed to lurk in the great contention that the star of matrimony for the American girl was now shining in the east—in England and France and Italy. They had only to look round anywhere to see it: what did they hear of every day in the week but of the engagement of somebody no better than they to some count or some lord? Delia dwelt ...
— The Reverberator • Henry James
... prerogative of absolute supremacy in the domestic circle, when they are thus married change and seem quite content to relinquish not a few of their ideas of perfectly untrammelled independence, and to take that more subordinate position in matrimony which European life and customs allot to women. It is still more astonishing to see how contentedly and cheerfully they do so when marrying men, as they often do, whose equals in every point, were they their own countrymen, they ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 • Various
... and probably I never shall be. I have my own ideas about matrimony, and the conditions under which I would undertake it are not at all likely ever to ...
— Stella Fregelius • H. Rider Haggard
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