They looked, at that moment, an ideal bride and bridegroom.
She had been there--in these lonely rooms, which year by year he had heaped with treasures for the ideal bride who was to come.
The first six weeks will be bliss unutterable, because he will himself turn on his own rose-colored light upon everything and everybody, and his bride will be beautiful, amiable, and passive.
He is a dreamer, you know--an idealist, any bride must needs fall short of his requirements.
A whisper had been passed among the crowd without, followed by a shout from all, demanding to see the bride and bridegroom.
A man, with a dark fire smouldering in his eyes, entered in--the pale bride followed him.
The bridegroom was a fine upstanding fellow, and the bride a worthy mate--as stately a pair as any had seen.
But the bride was pale--as it might have been one Sunday evening by the river, when she sat alone on the bank, watching a man stride hastily away, with a flush of anger on his cheek.
It appears that ever since 1527 a plan for a marriage between the King’s intended bride and the son of Duke Anthony of Lorraine had been under discussion.
Two days after the meeting at Rochester, he rode in state to meet his bride at Greenwich, and on January 6 he married her.
Tenez labride haute à votre fils=--Keep a tight hand over your son (lit.
If I must die, / I will encounter darkness as a bride / And hug it in my arms.
The wedding is celebrated with splendour, the fortune of the bride being sometimes expended in purchasing a magnificent dress, which is then deemed essential.
The Genoese women marry at fifteen or sixteen years of age, and it is impossible to imagine a creature more innocent, childish-looking, and perfectly beautiful, than a youngbride in her nuptial attire.
Here the marriage is finally consummated, "the bride still continuing to cry very loudly.
Thus, Skeat, in his Malay Magic, shows that the bride and bridegroom are definitely recognized as sacred, in the same sense that the king is, and in Malay States the king is a very sacred person.
It is the privilege of the bridegroom's four groomsmen to enjoy the bride first, and she is then handed over to her legitimate husband.
In the event of the bridegroom failing to catch the bride the marriage has to be postponed.
There are often a very large number of guests and the bride is sometimes so exhausted at the end that she has to spend several days in bed.
In the evening the bride was conducted to her husband's house, taken thither apparently by force from the arms of her mother or other relative, in memory of the violence used to the Sabine women.
As thebride was led into her chamber, there was a sieve carried along with her, and a pestle hung at the door, implying that afterwards she was to assist in the household duties.
Nature took its own way of causing the unhappy lady to forget her sadness of heart--reason left its seat, and the orphaned Margaret, instead of grieving over the past, was found singing as sweetly as if she were a bride in a peaceful bower.
Bride and bridegroom, priest, and rejoicing friends were assembled at the appointed time in the church, and the service was about to begin, when a man stained with blood entered the sacred building.
After supper the bride was conducted to her bed-chamber by matrons who had been only once married, and laid on her couch, which was covered with flowers; songs were then sung by young women before the chamber door till midnight.
Next day another entertainment was given by the husband, when presents were sent to the bride by her friends and relations; and she began her family duties by performing sacred rites.
Returning to take his ring, he found the finger so bent that the ornament intended for his bride could not be removed.
The bride bound the door-posts of her new home with woollen fillets, and anointed them with the fat of swine or wolves, to prevent enchantments.
No small importance is attached to the old rhyme: "Blessed is the bridethat the sun shines on; Blessed is the corpse that the rain rains on.
It is unlucky for a "best-man" to have on a black coat at a marriage; it is an omen of evil to the bride and bridegroom.
At marriages, while the young persons present held torches in their hands and sang the marriage song, the bridewalked three times round the bridegroom, and he in turn walked thrice round her.
The dress of a bride on her marriage day was a long white robe and her face was covered with a veil, in token of her modesty; her hair was divided with the point of a spear into six locks, and she was crowned with flowers.
If an unmarried man dream of snow, he may depend upon it that he will before long lead a brideto the hymeneal altar; and to a young woman it promises an honourable husband and great riches.
He returned a tender message that he would wear the ring for her sake; and yet, the little girl to whom he had been betrothed never became the bride of the emperor.
Then said he to Elizabeth:-- "It shall be brought about that you shall become the bride of some great man.
He and his bride were escorted by the young folk of the parish, each man wearing a bit of green broom fastened to his left arm, and carrying an alder pole in his right hand by way of spear.
The Protector led an army against them, a most remarkable fashion of winning a bride for the young king, but the Scotch would not yield.
In either case, my venerable friend and betrothed bride must remain unprotected and in poverty.
So here, without any departure from the well-trodden path of Scriptural emblem, we cannot but see in the glorious apparel the figure of the pure character with which the bride is clothed.
The bride being thus beloved by the King, thus standing by His side, those around recognise her dignity and honour, and draw near to secure her intercession.
The presence of virgin companions waiting on the bride is no more difficult to understand here than it is in Christ's parable of the Ten Virgins.
The bride 'made herself ready,' and 'to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white.
The Rabouilleuse showed the most servile attentions and the utmost tenderness to her master; fancied his head was too low, beat up the pillows, and took care of him like a bride of yesterday.
The bride was much impressed by this concession, obtained by Philippe, and intended by the two ladies as a mark of protection to a repentant woman.
To make happy bridegroom and a bride Demands not love alone, but much beside, Relations that do not wholly disagree.
I do not see that Bride need have hurt hers if she had been the least careful.
You never do--I don't know how it is that I always get torn,' said Bride dolefully.
In treating Bride thus, I think her mother made a mistake.
Bride and Smuttie did not overtake Mrs. Vane and Rosalys, for they were running towards the sea, whereas the others were walking straight along the shore.
Mr. Redding happened to call that morning, and at luncheon Mrs. Vane told Alie and Bride that she was going to Seacove, and they might go with her.
The dress of the bride celebrated in the Song of Solomon combined utility with taste; but our ladies must have habiliments that outrage every law of propriety, and force their bodies into the most unnatural shapes.
In the ever strange circling of events he sought and won the hand of the young and beautiful Elizabeth Brodie, and conducted his bride with festive rejoicings to his home in Strathbogie.
If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride and hug it in my arms.
I thought to have decked thy bride bed, sweet maid, not to have strewed thy grave.
Heavy news to young Juliet, who had been but a few hours a bride and now by this decree seemed everlastingly divorced!
On the face of the newly made bride there was not shining that smile of gentle delight, of mutual love which trusts in a long future of serene joy.
In the white cloud of her satin dress and in the fleecy white cloud of her veil, the bride knelt at a prie-dieu of brown carved wood on which had been placed a cushion of dark-red velvet.
Under the weight of the glittering jewels, in that respectable but melancholy society, the pretty bride had not pronounced a single word.
Terrified and pale the wretched bride listened to the voice which seemed that of her destiny, a grave voice and free from any interest which was not true, a voice which seemed cruel, but whose cruelty contained a lofty common-sense.
He now stood face to face with the destined bride whom he had made up his mind never to marry, without any of the embarrassment he had expected to feel when he should first see her.
It is one of the old and deep-rooted customs of the Ghetto towns of Europe for a young couple to live with the parents of the bride for a year or two after the wedding.
He was mutely boasting as much of his own homeliness as of her coarse beauty Prosperity was picking the cream of the "bride market" for her favorite sons.
There is only one bride for me in all the world, and that is my own Dora darling.
I ask not the pleasure that riches supply, My sabre shall win what the feeble must buy: Shall win the young bride with her long flowing hair, And many a maid from her mother shall tear.
And I have been finding a bride for you, and she is intelligent and handsome and has property.
Let us go, and if the brideis pretty--then I might marry.
I am the affianced bride of Bertram Harrison," she said softly.
He held his glass high and said, "I toast the bride and groom and the ultimate colonization of the Galaxy--by subterfuge!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bride" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
