"Married" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... retired from the service. He was still very plain, but as it was known that he had been blown up, the loss of his eye as well as the scars on his face were all put down to the same accident, and he excited interest as a gallant and maimed officer. He married, and lived contented and happy to a ...
— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Frederick Marryat
... is a great pleasure for the new married couple, that they have been up and down taking their pleasure, and have been feasted ...
— The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682) • A. Marsh
... daughter of the Duke de Mercoeur in 1598. The bridegroom was four years old and the bride-elect had just entered her sixth year. The great Conde, by the urgency of his avaricious father, was unwillingly married at the age of twenty, to Claire Clemence de Maille Breze, the niece of Cardinal Richelieu, when she was ...
— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 1 • Samuel de Champlain
... man of the Arabs who had a number of children, and amongst them a boy, never was seen a fairer than he of favour nor a more complete in comeliness; no, nor a more perfect of prudence. When he came to man's estate, his father married him to his first cousin, the daughter of one of his paternal uncles, and she excelled not in beauty, neither was she laudable for qualities; wherefore she pleased not the youth, but he bore with her for the sake of kinship. One day, he fared forth in quest of certain camels[FN504] of his which ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... married, at Shiplake, the object of his old, long-tried, and constant affection. The marriage was still "imprudent,"—eight years of then uncontested supremacy in English poetry had not brought a golden harvest. Mr Moxon appears to have supplied 300 pounds "in advance of royalties." ...
— Alfred Tennyson • Andrew Lang
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