"Wedding" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... but the countenance of Sarah was suffused with a shame that the considerate aunt well understood. Not for the world would she violate any of the observances of female etiquette. It suggested itself to all the females, at the same moment, that the wedding ring of the late mother and sister was reposing peacefully amid the rest of her jewelry in a secret receptacle, that had been provided at an early day, to secure the valuables against the predatory inroads of the marauders who roamed through the county. Into this hidden vault, ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper
... wife ought to go to her husband," said Euphemia, "especially so recent a bride. Why didn't you let me know all about it? I would have helped to fit you out. We would have given you the nicest kind of a little wedding." ...
— Rudder Grange • Frank R. Stockton
... Poona extremists began to specialize on bombs they were amongst the neophytes of the new cult. A conspiracy was hatched of which the admitted purpose was to murder Colonel Ferris, the Political Agent, at the wedding of the Maharajah's daughter on March 21, 1908, but, if it had been carried out successfully, the Maharajah himself and many of his other guests would almost inevitably have been killed at the same time. For, as was disclosed in the subsequent trial, ...
— Indian Unrest • Valentine Chirol
... 6: "Adhuc manifestavit oportere nos cum vocatione (i.e., [Greek: meta ten klesin]) et iustitiae operibus adornari, uti requiescat super nos spiritus dei"—we must provide ourselves with the wedding garment.] ...
— History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack
... all Mr. Levinski's previous records, our friend Prosper Vane received no practical acknowledgment of his services. He had to be content with the hand and heart of the lady who played Winifred, and the fact that Mr. Levinski was good enough to attend the wedding. There was, in fact, a photograph in all the papers of ...
— Happy Days • Alan Alexander Milne
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