The next chapel, San Jose, is adorned by Valdes Leal's "Espousals of the Virgin.
Then there is the Capuchin Convent, where Murillo met his death by falling from a scaffolding while painting the picture of the Espousals of St. Catherine.
If your Highness holds the obstacles as light as I do, we will have the espousalsat the Alcazar, and Maria shall hold the new queen’s robe.
Shortly afterward the espousals of the Cid's daughters to the noble Infantes of Navarre and Aragon were celebrated with much pomp.
I must now notify to you the approaching espousalsof the most illustrious Prince Pigwiggin with Lady Rachel Cavendish, third daughter of the Duke of Devonshire: the victim does not dislike it!
She replied, "The best time to visit my father is on the Eed al Koorbaun, which is three days hence, as thou wilt then find with him all his relations and friends, and our espousals will add to his festivity.
In consequence of this treaty, Mary was sent over to France with a splendid retinue; and Lewis met her at Abbeville, where the espousals were celebrated.
The states of Castile had opposed the emperor Charles's espousals with Mary, Henry's daughter; and among other objections, had insisted on the illegitimate birth of the young princess.
Old legends state that Joseph and the Virgin Mary used at their espousals a ring of onyx or amethyst.
On his fourth espousals he had the following motto inscribed on his wedding-ring: If I survive I'll make thee five.
The origin of this custom of espousals to Christ dates from a very remote period.
Espousals to God' were not confined to the religious portion of the community.
There is no doubt that these 'espousals to Christ' were in connection with the spiritual marriage of the bishop with the Church implied by the sanctity of the episcopal ring.
FN#177] Upon this they began to prepare for the ceremony forthright, and summoned the Kazi and witnesses who duly knotted the knot of wedlock and by eventide the glad tidings of the espousals were bruited abroad.
The Lords of the land have stood up against the King in the matter of marriage, and in the absence of espousals we fear for his deposition.
So the bride was fitted out and the espousals took place forthright and that same night the Kazi's father-in-law came to him and led him in to his bride saying in his heart, "I am now connected with the Kazi.
In the course of that same month of November 1399, a negociation was set on foot to bring about the espousals for a future union of the Prince with one of the daughters of the King of France.
Whilst the King was thus negociating a marriage for his son, he was himself engaged by solemn espousals to marry, as his second wife, Joan of Navarre, Duchess of Brittany.
These espousals were in those days accompanied by the religious service of matrimony, and the bride assumed the title of her espoused husband.
The evil of secret espousals is minimized or even denied.
Excesses were likewise often committed by the celebration of Espousals in taverns and ale-houses, and some of the synodal decrees expressly injoin that the parties shall not get drunk on these occasions.
The teachings of Luther regardingespousals were largely determinative for the future history of marriage in the German states.
The perils arising in the canonical theory of espousals were greatly increased by the doctrine of impediments to marriage, particularly those growing out of forbidden degrees of affinity, consanguinity, and spiritual relationship.
The evils naturally flowing from the law and doctrine of espousals are here realistically disclosed in the "trothplights" and the similar cases of "clandestine marriages.
Referring to this act, Swinburne, writing in the reign of Elizabeth, bears witness to the strength with which the canonical theory of espousals had laid hold of the legal mind.
Nothing, save resignedly to prepare for his divorce from the conspiratrix Camilla and espousals with Michiella.
Her old nurse prayed for the day of her espousals to come with a quicker step.
It weighed much on his mind that no church was near wherein the espousals might be celebrated, but he was fully conscious of the difficulties of Llewelyn's position.
When called upon to appear before the episcopal tribunal[16] Francis experienced a lively joy; his mystical espousals to the Crucified One were now to receive a sort of official consecration.
We have seen that the chapel where his spiritual espousals had just been celebrated was threatened with ruin.
And there were lordly Nereus' Daughters shown Leading their sister up from the wide sea To her espousals with the warrior-king.
Ippolita Sforza, whose espousals he represented in the Sacrament of Marriage, afford us some light for fixing the date of this picture.
He is in general an imitator of Barocci, as in the picture of the Circumcision in the church of Loreto, in the Espousals of the Virgin in the Duomo in Ancona, and in a Madonna belonging to the Counts Leopardi at Osimo.
Behind her a charming angel, playing on the organ, celebrates the espousals with hymns of joy; beyond him stands St. John the Baptist with his lamb.
According to the Abbé Orsini, who gives a long description of the espousals of Mary and Joseph, they returned after the marriage ceremony to Nazareth, and dwelt in the house of St. Anna.
In Shakespeare's plays, however, espousals are made with and without the use of the ring.
It appears, therefore, that espousals before witnesses were considered as constituting a valid marriage, if followed up within a limited time by the marriage of the Church.
Palmer explains: "The espousals consisted in a mutual promise of marriage, which was made by the man and woman before the bishop or presbyter, and several witnesses.
On the question at the espousals being put to her, "An spondes?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "espousals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
