Marrying

Examples

• She had been surprised at first, because she had not thought Edmund a marrying man. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In his marrying such a woman therefore there would be nothing unsuitable. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• She will hardly be less hurt, I suppose, by Robert's marrying Lucy, than she would have been by your marrying her. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Her family--her beggarly family--turned their backs on her for marrying an honest man, who had made his own place and won his own fortune. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• This proposal of his, this plan of marrying and continuing at Hartfieldthe more she contemplated it, the more pleasing it became. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Jane, you would not repent marrying me--be certain of that; we _must_ be married. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• You looked surprised to-day when you heard him tell me that I had made a virtue of necessity in marrying him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I am your old lawyer and your old friend, and I may remind you, I am sure, without offence, of the possibility of your marrying Sir Percival Glyde. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I have not injured him by marrying him! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The way in which Mr. Casaubon put the case was this:--In marrying Dorothea Brooke I had to care for her well-being in case of my death. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Not if she gave up marrying? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Well, it would have been worse if he had made the codicil to hinder her from marrying again at all, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She says she does it to keep cousin Medora out of mischief: to prevent her marrying dreadful people. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Well, though I had her heart, her father was set upon her marrying Barclay. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I am marrying in despair, Mr. Bruff--on the chance of dropping into some sort of stagnant happiness which may reconcile me to my life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I had a great idea of marrying her myself, one of these odd days. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I don't know what effect they are going to have on me--but if marrying you is one of them, I will take the risk. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Not regret her leaving Highbury for the sake of marrying a man whom I could never admit as an acquaintance of my own! Jane Austen. Emma.
• But Mrs. Shaw said that her only child should marry for love,--and sighed emphatically, as if love had not been her motive for marrying the General. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I think these are not times for marrying or giving in marriage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Could she be secure of that, indeed, of his never marrying at all, she believed she should be perfectly satisfied. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Well, Mrs. Weston, said Emma triumphantly when he left them, what do you say now to Mr. Knightley's marrying Jane Fairfax? Jane Austen. Emma.
• And as for Crawley, of the Life Guards, hang it, he's a fine fellow: and I like him for marrying the girl he had chosen. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There is no danger of Wickham's marrying Mary King. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• In her kind schemes for Elizabeth, she sometimes planned her marrying Colonel Fitzwilliam. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Your allowing yourself to be so occupied and so unhappy about Mr. Elton's marrying, Harriet, is the strongest reproach you can make _me_. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I cannot at all consent to Mr. Knightley's marrying; and I am sure it is not at all likely. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I think that Dorothea commits a wrong action in marrying Ladislaw. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Are you less frightfully likely to become bored, marrying for no money and no station? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We are indebted to that for seeing a woman like Dorothea degrading herself by marrying him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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