My jet black hair in pearly braids, Between our comely bachelors And blushing bridal maids.
The happy bridal over The wanderer ceased to roam, For, seated by her lover, The boat became her home.
But wildly up the stairs she ran, 90 As if her sense was fled, And then her trembling limbs she threw Upon the bridal bed.
In a broad cabinet with glazed doors are to be seen among various monstrosities of glass and porcelain two battered sugar ships with paper pennons, and a bridal wreath with crumpled white muslin blossoms and arsenic-green leaves.
Scarcely was the seat of honor vacated by the bridal party, when it was filled by another matron and her fair daughter; but no comfortable carriage set her down--no obsequious footman ushered her into Messrs.
They were, in fact, upon their way to Aston Manor, to make the bridal visit, as Colonel and Mrs. Hargrave had returned the evening before.
We had just finished arranging and rearranging the costly bridal gifts, when Marian was summoned to attend her aunt.
Heliodorus and Diogeneia died on the same day and are buried under the same stone: but love admits no such bar to its continuance, and the tomb is as a bridal chamber for their triumphant life.
Chris, listening, saw this, even as he saw that scarlet streak; but all the while he was thinking idly that if Naraini were doomed to widowhood, the bridal scarlet would never be hers.
For from within, pushed to the front at a sign from the Swami, came two more figures: a widow, her face hidden in her white shroud, a slender slip of a girl with hers hidden in her bridal scarlet.
But all were not made that way, and it was high time the bridal party did come.
Physcon agreed to this; but no sooner had he married the queen, who was also his sister, when he brutally killed her son, while in her own arms, and upon the very bridal day.
The bridal ring, set with a ruby, was made from the one with which Henry was consecrated at the time of his coronation.
Alexandrina, adorned in bridal pomp, stood at the side of her imperial grandmother; all was in readiness, but the royal bridegroom came not.
At her bridal Catharine wore upon her head a coif of white silk, with a scarf bordered with gold and pearls and precious stones, five inches and a half broad, which veiled the greater part of her visage and her person.
As the latter seems more fitting: to this funereal scene, we incline to that supposition, which would surely appear more appropriate than bridal white for this moment of public repudiation.
A rough bridal voyage, indeed, was vouchsafed to this young and beautiful bride.
The bridal mantles of William and Matilda, richly adorned with jewels, were long preserved in the treasury of Bayeux Cathedral.
The sun was coming in at the window warm and bright; the orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky-white bloom, hummed over by a myriad of bees.
There were flowers about him--sweet old-fashioned flowers which his mother had planted in the homestead garden in her bridal days and for which Matthew had always had a secret, wordless love.
He could feel nothing but delight as he looked on his Lilla in her chaste and simple bridal robes, and felt that of her he might indeed be proud.
Thus the time passed on; and it was now within three days of the one fixed for the bridal ceremony, when an incident occurred which produced a terrible change in the aspect of affairs.
It was nine o’clock in the morning--the morning succeeding the bridal night: and thus were the newly-wedded pair still sleeping in the nuptial couch.
That night in the bridal chamber of Clare the fifth earl chose a not altogether suitable costume of pink-silk pajamas in which to give utterance to his plans for the future.
He flushed with the slaughter of hundreds of birds, she flushed with what all this meant to her and him and England, faced each other in the bridal chamber of Clare that itself was flushed with a crimson October sunset.
Amongst the Jews of Jerusalem, the bride, at the marriage ceremony, stands under the nuptial canopy, her eyes being closed, that she may not behold the face of her future husband before she reaches the bridal chamber.
These ideas explain the origin of the bridalveil and similar concealments.
She wears a veil, and is not allowed to open her eyes until she is set on the bridal bed, with a girl friend beside her.
Amongst the Zulus, the bridal party proceeds to the house of the groom, having the bride hidden amongst them.
The young bride, divested of herbridal attire, and quietly costumed for the journey, now bids farewell to her bridesmaids and lady friends.
It would have been impossible, with their minds filled with bridal arrangements, for them to make plans for their journey.
And then he told the story of the proxybridal tour.
A tearful interest in the event began to pervade the assembly, and Giovanni really found no such difficulty as would have attended the efforts of any other person to approach the sacred centre of the bridal circle.
That same evening preparations were made to conclude the bridal ceremonies which the morning had seen so fearfully arrested.
I tell you I have seen your bridal with Francesca Ziani.
But his wife took one of his friends and bridalcompanions for her husband.
Won't it be just too lovely to be married on the same day, Cissy, and cross the ocean together on our bridal tour and spend our honeymoons at Castle Raneleigh?
Well, the bridal party are to spend Christmas with me.
She had drifted beyond the reckoning of her kindred, and they were sending her her property and bridal linen, as if they had done with her, and had lost their child in the robber- baron's wife.
If, as your uncle says, mourning is the seed of joy, this bridal should prove a gladsome one!
Mr. Tooting is not leading them for the moment, but is pressing through the crowd outside the hall and flying up the street to the Pelican and the bridal suite, where he is first with the news.
Watling and Tooting rush to the bridal suite, and rush back again to demand justice.
And under these the Meramec, crystal pure, ran lightly on sand and pebble to her bridal with that turbid tyrant, the Father of Waters.
About noon there was a rumor among the crowd in front of the church that the bridal party were near.
Children, too, scarce large enough to grasp the flowers which they tear from the shrubs that climb to the very windows of the sanctuary; and through the crowd comes the bridal train.
Her nobles come, In many a galley ranged, and gay With waving flag and nodding plume, To grace fair Venice' bridal day.
It should be remembered that one eighth of the country lies within the region of perpetual snow, and that these lofty and nearly inaccessible heights are robed in a constant garb of bridal whiteness.
A story is told of one of these being thebridal chamber of a famous Viking in the olden time, and which is said to be only accessible by diving beneath the surface of the sea.
