I need not tell you that Beauman is to be the happy deity of the hymeneal sacrifice.
Preparations for the hymeneal ceremony were making, and invitations had already gone abroad.
Swinburne expresses his Hellenic longings by his hymeneal strains, Matthew Arnold by sweetness and light, Gilbert Murray by sweetness and pathos--and all through the divine right of Victorian expansion.
She was like a bloated spider, slowly entwining those threads for her victim which were to entrap him to his destruction, for she had vowed that she never would again be led to the hymeneal altar until Mr Vanslyperken was hanged.
On this happy occasion, her hymeneal flame burned with so much warmth and purity, that she shared it with a linen-draper, and the circumstance became almost immediately known to the husband!
Attalus, so long the sport of fortune, and of the Goths, was appointed to lead the chorus of the Hymeneal song; and the degraded emperor might aspire to the praise of a skilful musician.
Sir Boreas is angry with me because I have thought it right to call--you know whom--by his title, and now I am to be dismissed just when I was about to take that beautiful and accomplished young lady to the hymeneal altar.
But this business of being married, with all the most extravagant appurtenances of the hymeneal altar, was to her taste.
What would the world say when it should have become known that he intended to lead Lady Frances to the "hymeneal altar?
As he repeated the words to himself there was something ridiculous even to himself in the idea that the hymeneal altar should ever be mentioned in reference to the adventures of such a person as George Roden, the Post Office clerk.
Such a thing will be, as sure as I stand here--though not at all in hymeneal garb just now.
A storm of protestations burst forth at his daring departure from hymeneal tradition.
Where the fathers of these were known it was very long odds against their escaping from the wardens, who generally succeeded in tying that hymeneal knot for them which they themselves ought to have fastened some time earlier.
There was no middle way left for this description of sinner but a long incarceration in gaol or a procession to the hymeneal altar in company with her whom he had outraged.
The music of Miss Nanni's hymeneal ode was forty years later put to a right royal use.
And Keats the real Adonis with the hymeneal Fresh vernal buds half sunk between His youthful curls, kissed straight and sheen In his Rome-grave, by Venus queen.
THE slowness usually in parents found, Induced the girl, whose heart by LOVE was bound; To celebrate the Hymeneal scene, As in the statutes of Cythera's queen.
No other choice Belphegor now had got, Than--try himself the hymeneal knot.
Prince Consort leading her to the hymeneal altar herself.
Nor, in her benevolent desire to speed the car of Miss Jemima to its hymeneal goal, was Mrs. Dale so cruel towards her male friend, Dr.
As priests were out of the question, the hymeneal rites were performed a la Gandharva.
The king's son, smitten with the charms of the peerless princess, married her after a short time; and as there was no priest there, the hymeneal knot was tied by a simple exchange of garlands of flowers.
What the deuce does a mariage de convenance mean but all this, and are not such sober Hymeneal torches more satisfactory often than the most brilliant love matches that ever flamed and burnt out?
Gunter with the most delicious taste and the sweetest hymeneal allusions.
Nor, in her benevolent desire to speed the car of Miss Jemima to its hymeneal goal, was Mrs. Dale so cruel toward her male friend, Dr.
A cold and chilling time had been named for these hymeneal joys, but one not altogether unsuited to the feelings of the happy pair.
Why, it would have taken the hymeneal monarch a whole lifetime to have introduced her to his family in a decorous way.
Bound together in conjugal sympathy, by ever-vibrating telegraph wires, what could have been more satisfactory and highly fashionable than these hymeneal relations?
A striking instance of this might be adduced, in the revolution of many a hymeneal honeymoon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hymeneal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
