"Banns" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of August, and the banns were to be published for November. The Baron was to arrange for the marriage in Brussels, but it was agreed that the young couple should live in Paris, and the Countess proposed to pick out a pretty house to shelter the happiness of her son. She herself would live ...
— The Idol of Paris • Sarah Bernhardt
... light All miracles of beauty shall be wrought, Attesting a diviner faith than man's; For all my sad-eyed daughters of the night Shall smile on your sweet seraphim of thought, Nor any jealous god forbid the banns. ...
— Shapes of Clay • Ambrose Bierce
... have been brief and to the point, for it was positively known that he and his fiancee had met but three times in the interval when the banns were published. ...
— Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches • Ruth McEnery Stuart
... in a month's time. Some accounted it unseemly haste, after the other banns which had come to naught, and some said 'twas better so, and they blamed not Parson Fair for placing such a flighty and jilting maid safe within the pale of wedlock—and they guessed he was thankful ...
— Madelon - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... gaunt poodle, which would persist in rising up through the damp mould as fast as I covered him up. . . . Lilian and I were engaged, and we were in church together on Sunday, and the poodle, resisting all attempts to eject him, forbade our banns with sepulchral barks. . . . It was our wedding-day, and at the critical moment the poodle leaped between us and swallowed the ring. . . . Or we were at the wedding-breakfast, and Bingo, a grisly black skeleton with flaming eyes, sat on ...
— Stories By English Authors: London • Various
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