Seeing that theatrical managers were understood to dislike marriedcouples in companies on tour, she was to ask him whether he would engage her brother for the tour, pointing out that he had a good voice and was "fairly good looking.
Compromising paragraphs in the society paper having been explained away, the two declare their mutual love, and soon they are caught by other couples in the act of dancing and kissing.
Singing and dancing like the lightsome, joyous people they are, the couples hasten to the altar without more ado.
With his departure the couples re-assort themselves, selecting mates in keeping with their various social stations and ages, and the betrothal festivities resume their merry sway.
Bacchis went straight into the slaves' chamber, a square apartment furnished with three mattresses on which they slept in couples when the nights were over.
She cast furtive glances through open doors into rooms reeking with lamp smoke, where naked couples lay enlaced together.
The crowd of obscure couples sometimes, by chance, left a clear space round some immortal scene: Europa on hands and knees bearing the weight of the glorious Olympian beast; Leda guiding the hardy swan between her beautiful arched thighs.
Marriage therapy has been effective in helping couples with any of these characteristics or problems: * They communicate and interact in ways that lead to conflict, frustration, anger, and unhappiness.
For example, it is becoming more common to videotape sessions so that couples and families may become more aware of their automatic, self-destructive patterns of interaction--which makes it easier to change them.
One of the very difficult problems troubled couples or families face is that emotional disturbance can often "spread.
A "heart problem" is frequently part of a larger problem, such as poor diet or excessive stress, and the same is true for couples or families.
Three couples will be right," Ben had analyzed it.
And we have three couples due here in less than a half hour.
They entertained three couples at their house-warming party.
For there were in Judge Whitney's time on an average of two hundred and thirty couplesdivorced under that ceiling every year.
Their gathering-places are at the godowns, and in and out they pass up and down inclined planks, each with a sack, or in couples with two or more sacks hanging from their shoulders, never resting from these rounds.
There were two couples on board who always kept more or less to themselves, two rough-looking white men, a white woman, and one who for all I could tell was a middle-class Southern European woman.
Hence the streets are filled with flirtatious maidens strolling four abreast, hoping for a chance to break into the couples and quartets of young men who choose their own manly society in preference to that of expensive girls.
There the dunes and bracken are alive with couples all hours of the day or night during the holiday and summer seasons.
From the Fijian point of view, the whirling of couples about together must be extremely immodest, if not immoral.
At the next island they heard sweet human voices, and found that the sixty banished couples had established their homes there.
It had been decided that, by way of punishment, sixty couples of the people of Ross should be sent out to sea, two and two, in small boats, to meet what fate they might upon the deeps.
A score or two of other young couples were in precisely the same situation as they, and more that cheerfully resigned to their plight; but then they were not being goaded and taunted as John Willie was being goaded and taunted.
As many social allowances were made for the young man who had something "on" as liberties were granted to properly affianced couples who had got their certificate that it would "do.
In several instances, they were young local couples who went on to buy their tenured land and to become established members of the community.
The latter was an especially popular form of entertainment for young couples on dates.
It is estimated that about 300 couples a year used to get married in this off-hand manner.
This last is a sign in Fetter Lane, originating from a custom, now rapidly dying away, of the butcher boys serenading newly married couples with these professional instruments.
Down to recent years at Laviron, in the department of Doubs, it was the young married couples of the year who had charge of the bonfires.
The materials of the bonfire are piled in an open space near a church, and they are generally ignited by young couples who have been married within the year.
These couples had to exchange presents; the mock bridegroom gave his mock bride something for her toilet, while she in turn presented him with a cockade of coloured ribbon.
Wiedemann also observes that the sports in which young couples engage in the woods on this evening are not always decorous (Aus dem inneren und aeusseren Leben der Ehsten, p.
In Morocco the people think that childless couples can obtain offspring by leaping over the midsummer bonfire.
A curious custom, observed on the same Sunday in Franche-Comte, requires that couples married within the year should distribute boiled peas to all the young folks of both sexes who demand them at the door.
We have already seen that in Russia the summer solstice or Eve of St. John is celebrated by young men and maidens, who jump over a bonfire in couplescarrying a straw effigy of Kupalo in their arms.
This was so embarrassing to many coy couples that they just waived formal proceedings and set up housekeeping.
We have gone a bit further than Marcus, though, in that we allow couples to marry if they wish, yet divorce is denied if both parties desire it.
Most couples who desire freedom only think they do: what they really want is a vacation; but they would not separate for good if they could.
The Dhoon will send some twenty couples to the fancy ball on the 7th.
The tiffin over, we began to play at whist, and continued to do so until the sun had lost his power, when the buggies were ordered, and we took a drive in couples along a very bad road.
He also saw four couples enter here in half an hour, the women being street walkers.
During the evening 7 couples left this place and went to the Hotel X 891.
In most instances the destination of these couples was hotels on two corners of West 28th Street.
He described in detail the actions of couples in the staterooms when he served them drinks.
Investigator saw 5 suspicious couples enter this hotel in half an hour and 3 girls unescorted.
In some resorts there is a regular office, as in a legitimate hotel, where couples register at the desk; in others, a small window is all that can be seen.
Indeed, the best accredited and most popular couples would take a start away from their companions and acquaintances, and ride ten miles or so to be married privately, and so escape all ceremony.
Ah, well, they were all happy couplesin those days!
The way marriedcouples live to-day is an outrage on common decency.
Things do seem rather uneven," Mostyn admitted, lamely, "but you know really that we ought to have a law that would keep such couples from marrying.
At the same moment, the music swells and the procession of dancers, in couples, dance in five or six couples into the front room, the line curving away to right to suggest that there are very many more couples in the ball-room out of sight.
No better as respects poetry, but with more evidence of old English origin, is the following game, in which couples circle in a ring about two chairs, from time to time changing partners.
The torchlight procession of burghers swearing amity by couples in the cathedral there described, receives exact pictorial illustration in the fresco of the Sala della Pace[148].
Two of the couples hold short chains with the left hand, and seek to stab each other with the right.
In the case of another two couples the fight is over, and the victor is insulting his fallen foe.
Each of these younger couples affects a style of its own in dancing.
Some couples do not care to dance, and have retired to the corners, where they sit with their arms enlaced.
The climax of it is a furious prestissimo, at which the couples seize hands and begin a mad whirling.
The leading couples stood for a moment's breathing space near the summit.
Young couples paced the deck and leaned over the rail to watch the phosphorescent glow.
The figures of the dancing couples grew more and more indistinct and their faces became lost to view, while the sawing of the fiddle grew more and more rapid, and the dancing more excited.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "couples" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
