"Bridal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and powder and shot, and the girl her knife and wooden bowl to eat and drink out of; and these she intends to hide in her blanket. Sometimes they merely go to the next village to return the next day. But if they fancy a bridal tour, away they go several hundred miles with the grass for their pillow, the canopy of heaven for their curtains, and the bright stars to light and watch over them. When they return home, the bride goes at once to chopping wood, and the groom to smoking, without ...
— Dahcotah - Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling • Mary Eastman
... impelled, when amid the chips of chewed boats, and the sinking limbs of torn comrades, they swam out of the white curds of the whale's direful wrath into the serene, exasperating sunlight, that smiled on, as if at a birth or a bridal. His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville
... leading home, was preceded by offerings to Zeus Teleios, Hera Teleia, Artemis Eukleia and other deities protecting marriage. The bridal bath was the second ceremony, which both bride and bridegroom had to go ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy
... was amongst the throng, dressed in her bridal gown, but no one noticed how anxiously she glanced at the great birds which sat so ...
— Tales From Scottish Ballads • Elizabeth W. Grierson
... to loathe the sight of a bridal procession; and how she taught mother and maid to tremble at the passing of the same! How the news of a projected marriage stirred her bile, and how her dearest friends hastened to her with any matrimonial news they could gather, or invent! It was wonderful to see, and pleasant ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 • Various
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