Marriages

Examples

• The marriages of either were discussed; and their prospects in life canvassed with the greatest frankness and interest on both sides. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• See him busied at the work he likes best--making marriages. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And this lawful use of them seems likely to be often needed in the regulations of marriages and births. Plato. The Republic.
• In the man's problem, the growing impossibility of early marriages is directly related to the business situation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There shall be no beggar-marriages in my family. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It was at the bottom of a page, and was for want of room compressed into a smaller space than that occupied by the marriages above. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Though their marriages are generally more fruitful than those of people of fashion, a smaller proportion of their children arrive at maturity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In their marriages, they are exactly careful to choose such colours as will not make any disagreeable mixture in the breed. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We shall never give each other up; and you know that you have always objected to long courtships and late marriages. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Notwithstanding the great increase occasioned by such early marriages, there is a continual complaint of the scarcity of hands in North America. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Are all marriages unhappy? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mr. Shelby, I have taught my people that their marriages are as sacred as ours. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Men of his age married wives of her age every day--and experience had shown those marriages to be often the happiest ones. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Millions of marriages are unhappy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I should think you'll read the marriages, probably, miss, and the murders, and the accidents, and sich like? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This morning there were two marriages solemnized in Briarfield church--Louis Gérard Moore, Esq. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Have you forgotten, he asked with a smile, that in our country we don't allow our marriages to be arranged for us? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I wonder what he would have said to all these foreign marriages! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• And how can marriages be made most beneficial? Plato. The Republic.
• Another meeting will suffice to explain his sentiments on picturesque beauty, and second marriages, and then you can have nothing farther to ask. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• That is the time for trade and feasts and marriages. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I found the double register of the marriages of the two brothers. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And other advantages are promised by them of a more solid kind, such as wealthy marriages and high offices. Plato. The Republic.
• Better marriages would among other blessings require fewer divorces. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Indeed, from the marriages that have fallen under my observation, I am rather inclined to think that early ones stand the best chance of happiness. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The citizens have wives and children in common; their marriages are of the same temporary sort, and are arranged by the magistrates from time to time. Plato. The Republic.
• It's a place that has an ancient monopoly in suits about people's wills and people's marriages, and disputes among ships and boats. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The third sentence urges greater safeguards against undesirable marriages. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There are happy marriages. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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