Matrimonial

Examples

• You don't get on with your account of your matrimonial intentions, answered Carton, with a careless air; I wish you would keep to that. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Tell me--why does a time come when these matrimonial proceedings of mine begin to look like something done in a dream? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Both he and his illusory greatness were the results of the matrimonial statecraft of his grandfather, the Emperor Maximilian I (born 1459, died 1519). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This seems as if nothing were a security for matrimonial comfort. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Nobody can think more highly of the matrimonial state than myself. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Matrimonial bliss is rare in the cases of gloomy fanatics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In 1810 fresh friction was created by Alexander's objection to Napoleon's matrimonial ambitions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He knew his uncle too well to consult him on any matrimonial scheme. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• This is a very common and much-approved matrimonial course of treatment, which is often very effective. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Let her keep to her own matrimonial projects--if she has any. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• They say--I have heard them say it with sneering laughs many a time--the matrimonial market is overstocked. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Some opposition here is, I am thoroughly convinced, friendly to matrimonial happiness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

Edited by Cheryl