But how bring about early marriages in a time when the luxuries seem to have become necessities, and therefore the necessity of marriage is eyed more and more as an extravagance of the foolhardy?
That some of the sweetest marriages result where the wife is of this type does not change the general situation that such a marriage is an increased risk.
In how far the delayed marriagesof men and women are good or bad it is almost impossible to decide.
Then she tried to console him: "But one of the happiest marriages I ever knew, was between a man of thirty and a much older woman.
One of the happiestmarriages I ever knew was between a woman of fifty and a man of thirty.
I have made marriages for my children, and seen none of them happy or successful.
Am I to say aught about hasty marriages and a Signora Visconti?
He often expressed regret at the precipitate marriages of his sisters.
All marriages should be made through the Department, which might be subordinate to the Educational Department, under the same penalty as that attaching to the transfer of land without a stamped document.
You cannot account for the mania, except under a theory directly contradicting the one about the Place wherein marriages are made.
More persons relatively marry, andmarriages are happier.
It decided on the validity of the king's marriages and the legitimacy of the king's children.
The marriages of the clergy became a scandal, which was increased when the gorgeous vestments of the old worship were cut up into gowns and bodices for the priests' wives.
When girls have worked for us some time they often refuse to marry; at least, they refuse the arranged marriages proposed to them.
The better-class Jews do not employ them nowadays, but their marriages are suggested and arranged much as marriages are in France.
Such marriages are often enough made in England, but they are never admitted.
Engagements and marriages are advertised more simply, and your eye is not caught by them as it is by the big black bordered paragraphs that inform the world that someone has just left it.
Amongst Christians marriages are certainly not arranged for girls in this matter-of-course way, and so "old maids" abound.
Amongst the Jews in Germany marriages are still arranged for the young people by their elders; often, as in France, through the intervention of friends, but also by the business-like office of the marriage broker.
Early marriages were then far from uncommon, and Mrs. Pepys’s beauty was considered as forming a very valid excuse for the improvidence of the match.
This may possibly be one explanation of the practice among Chamars and other low castes in Northern India, when at marriages boys dress up as women and perform a rude and occasionally obscene dance.
At marriages among them, a terrible apparition appears of two demoniacs possessed by Bagheswar, the tiger god.
The worship of trees at marriage prevails in Madras, where some Rajas worship at their marriages the fire and the Vahni tree, a twig of which is used as an arrow at the hunting feast at the Navaratri or Dasahra.
We have, again, instances of themarriages of, or to animals.
On the whole, it seems probable that this custom of pseudo-marriages may be based on various principles.
The Prabhus of Puna at their marriages put bamboo baskets on the heads of the bride, bridegroom, and guests.
We now come to discuss the curious custom of marriages to trees.
At marriages this naming is, in practice, little more than a game.
At Amosi in the Lucknow District they worship at marriages and birth of boys the door-post of the house of an old Rajput leader, named Binaik, who is honoured with the title of Baba or "father.
The hair-scraper of the tanner is worshipped by curriers, and the potter's wheel, regarded as a type of productiveness, is reverenced at marriages by many of the lower castes.
The Pipal is invoked at the rite of investiture with the sacred thread at marriages and at the foundation-laying of houses.
The leaves are hung up atmarriages in garlands on the house door, and on the shed in which the rite is performed, and after the wedding is over these are carefully consigned to running water by the bride and bridegroom.
Thus, at widow marriages in Northern India, the bride and bridegroom are covered with a sheet during the rite, probably in order to avert the envious or malignant influence of the spirit of the woman's first husband.
But the marriages of the Quakers are valid by law in their own Meeting-houses, when solemnised in this simple manner.
All marriages of other Dissenters are celebrated in the established churches, according to the ceremonies of the same.
We see therefore a good reason why Quaker-men should confine themselves in their marriages to their own society.
You know that in the world such marriages are arranged and are known and understood to be arranged, for reasons, and on ground with which love has nothing to do.
That is to say, that he had not married for any of the reasons for which marriages among people of his rank and his country are usually made; but had been attracted by a pretty gentle face seen in a Roman ball-room.
As a rule the ambassador's idea in writing such descriptions was to suggest the possibility of marriages being arranged between the scions of the noble houses of their own countries with these women.
The succeeding marriages are the best commentary on this explanation.
LUCY [clasping JOHN'S arm] Yes, Uncle Everett, marriages are made in heaven.
So after all, I suppose, Indian marriages are much like white people's.
There are two kinds of marriages among the Dahcotahs, buying a wife and stealing one.
Peaceable marriages between the sons and daughters of the different groups would more and more become the habit, and would gradually take the place of capture marriages.
Mr. Crawley's view is similar: he connects the custom with the idea of sexual taboo, which makes certain marriages a deadly sin.
But although divorce is frequent and easy, and can be claimed for a variety of reasons, all who have dwelt among the Khasis testify to the durable and happy marriages among them.
Such marriages are intelligible only if we suppose that the queen had the power of conferring the kingdom upon her consort, which could only happen where maternal descent was, or had been, practised.
We have seen many examples where, with complete freedom of separation held by the wife, lasting and most happy marriages are the rule.
It is instructive to find that these marriagesare usually successful.
Mr. Atkinson writes this to show that there can be no connection between these groups of young males and the polyandrous marriages of Mr. McLennan's theory.
In the courtships and perfect love marriages of many birds we find jealous combats replaced by the peaceful charming of the female by the male.
These marriages with the widow of a king were at one time very common.
The marriages were negotiated by the mothers: sometimes the father was consulted, but this was little more than a compliment, as his approbation or opposition was usually disregarded.
Three marriages almost in as many weeks among your own immediate kin!
He was the brother next above me; we were not brothers only but very intimate friends until we married, and since then we have only been separated in the relative sense in which our marriages and my public life in particular, implied.
You see, you are bound to make yours the most stylish of the fashionable marriages of the season.
At all events, a good many fashionable marriages resulted from plans laid by her ladyship and her female friends.
I believe, too, that every moral influence should be brought to bear against marriages where the physical or mental degeneracy[12] of the parents renders the use of preventatives desirable.
Such unions remain marriages in formality only; their pretended existence is a sacrilege, particularly if there are no children and the husband and wife are not therefore co-related as parents.
We must also be prepared to regard as immoral many marriages in which the physical is the chief incentive.
But the scientific dangers of such marriages would remain.
A fair proportion of unhappy marriages arise because they have been hastily entered into; with due inquiry many of them could have been prevented.
On the other hand, whatever their cause, there are marriages in which all trace of love has disappeared, and it may fairly be argued that the union is dead.
Late marriages are often attended, too, with this farther inconvenience, that there is not the same chance that the parents shall live to see their offspring educated.
By these early marriages we are blessed with more children; and from the mode among us, founded by nature, of every mother suckling and nursing her own child, more of them are raised.
Indeed, from the marriages that have fallen under my observation, I am rather inclined to think that early ones stand the best chance of happiness.
By this simple expedient their former marriages of convenience received the sanction of law, and their children the seal of legitimacy.
It is further provided that "the marriage relation between white persons and persons of African descent is forever prohibited, and such marriages shall be null and void.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marriages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
