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Example sentences for "marrying"

Lexicographically close words:
marrows; marrowy; marry; marrye; marryed; marser; marsh; marshal; marshaled; marshaling
  1. And no,--it did not signify that her brother Rowsley was prohibited by her from marrying whom he pleased.

  2. Mr. Eglett, good man, is between them, catching it right and left; and he deserves his luck for marrying her.

  3. He had some strong motive, first in marrying his daughter Beryl, secondly in encompassing her death before sundown, and thirdly in implicating me so deeply that I should be unable to extricate myself from the net which he set to entrap me.

  4. Indeed, I've often wondered if the redoubtable Ephraim Smith himself, for all that he succeeded in marrying her, fared any better than the rest of us.

  5. Jim Morris, taking his seat and feeling sure he should presently hear Mr. Worth was going down into the country for the purpose of marrying Miss Middleton and bringing her home.

  6. Whether benign nature would have permitted the motherly little maiden to have carried out this resolution, I do not know; or what Bee would have done in the event of Ishmael's marrying another, she did not know.

  7. And he resorted to a stratagem to get me into his power, and reduce me to the alternative of marrying him or losing my good name forever.

  8. Claudia, in marrying him, became the wife of the Captain General of Cuba, and the first lady on the island.

  9. Could not help marrying a man you could not love, Claudia?

  10. But I think, Ishmael, that, if it is as I suppose, there would be more honor in frankly stating the case to Bee, and asking for the release that she would surely give you than there would be in marrying her while you love another.

  11. He dreamt, after a rapid settlement of the difficulties there, of either marrying Elizabeth of England, or of overthrowing that heretic Queen and ascending the throne as the husband of her rival Mary Queen of Scots.

  12. Charles offered to grant it to the Duke of Angouleme, the third son of the French King, on condition of his marrying an Austrian princess.

  13. Henry, therefore, after some futile negotiations with Spain, in which the idea of Henry's marrying the Infanta was entertained, determined to declare open war against Spain.

  14. To this course he was the more inclined, because he now thought of marrying Philip to Mary, the Catholic Queen of England, and thus uniting England with the Spanish monarchy.

  15. If she consents, I have not another word to say about your loving, wooing and marrying her, if you can.

  16. Thus a given Donald, of the Islay family, marrying a MacHenry heiress, gave the name "MacDonald" to the MacHenrys of Glencoe.

  17. The difficulty, that Crow and Eagle Hawk were now marrying precisely where they had been forbidden to marry when phratry law first was sketched out, has been brought to my notice.

  18. This would entail a shock to tender consciences, as each kin is now marrying into the very phratry which had been forbidden to it.

  19. Thus, in marrying a woman of his totem, but not of his set of classes, a man does not break the law of Arunta exogamy.

  20. Then (October 28) Throgmorton tells Cecil plainly that, till he knows what Cecil thinks, he sees no reason to advise the Queen in the matter 'of marrying Dudley.

  21. He had the usual hardships of the young actor, playing in various stock companies without attracting especial attention, and finally, in 1853, marrying Malvina Pray, herself an actress of considerable ability.

  22. Susan Cushman would no doubt also have won high fame as an actress, but she soon retired from the stage, marrying the distinguished chemist and author, James Sheridan Muspratt, of Liverpool.

  23. He's no more idea of marrying than a monk.

  24. Especially did public opinion insist on children marrying according to the wishes of their parents.

  25. The Duke of Norfolk, England's premier peer, plotted with the northern earls to advance Mary's cause, and thought of marrying her himself.

  26. He put it very sweetly, but I know that in marrying Fleur's father without love I did a dreadful thing.

  27. In fact, our family is in pretty queer waters, with Uncle Soames marrying a Frenchwoman, and your Dad marrying Soames's first.

  28. They couldn't stop him marrying her--they wouldn't want to stop him when they knew how he felt.

  29. Every man knows there's got to be a lot of sacrifice in marriage, and he likes to feel that he's marrying a woman who is fully capable of making it.

  30. How grateful I am, how profoundly thankful with my whole heart that I am marrying a man that I can trust!

  31. Of course if you were, for instance, the president of the South Midland they would not have refused to receive you, but they would have objected quite as strongly to your marrying into the family.

  32. That little one and I were quite chums, and I used to look upon her almost in the light of a small sister, and I should not like to think of her marrying anyone who would not make her happy.

  33. You are not half as glad as I expected you to be--and please don't think that I am marrying without love.

  34. Dorothy is not marrying for a title; she refused a higher one than his last autumn.

  35. People blamed Mademoiselle de Chargeboeuf for marrying him; yet she will soon be wife of the Keeper of the Seals; Monsieur Vinet can be peer of France whenever he pleases.

  36. Marrying from reason a man whose mental insufficiency is very apparent, she made herself love him out of pity and a sense of protection.

  37. Grevin was then over fifty; he feared to die, and saw no chance of marrying his daughter as he wished under the Restoration--for her, he had had ambition.

  38. You have ended by marrying the only heiress of the Nucingen millions--after twenty years at hard labor.

  39. Do you think a woman who's been begged and cajoled and petted into marrying a man enjoys creeping and crawling to him for odd shillings for household expenses?

  40. Even had the passion been there, I could not imagine her marrying such a man.

  41. Do you suppose Grayle had contemplated a scandal, a divorce, the necessity of marrying the woman?

  42. I find that she persisted in rejecting the man whom her father wished her to marry, and that he has consoled himself by marrying somebody else.

  43. My uncle would have been very much offended at my marrying a day-labourer's daughter, and would not have invited me to Luscombe.

  44. Nevertheless the facts are as I have stated them, and I do not see how, as a man of honour, you can get off marrying my niece.

  45. And there’s no hinderance to my marrying her at once.

  46. Am I, in my five-and-sixtieth year, to be marrying at last?

  47. Phanocrates has no objection to my marrying her; nor has my father, I imagine.

  48. Mysie; 'at least, when they don't begin being stupid and marrying too soon.

  49. So he gave order to his servants to try how David would relish this proposal of marrying the damsel.

  50. This high commendation of Antonia for marrying but once, given here, and supported elsewhere; Antiq.


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