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Example sentences for "mock marriage"

  • Let's have a mock marriage, and forge the certificate.

  • Instead of which she had consented to a mock marriage in a registry-office--and this.

  • He had known of men entrapping innocent girls by means of a mock marriage, and he had always regarded such men as the most unscrupulous of scoundrels.

  • It was, he assured his conscience, no mock marriage, since he was seeking it for no gross purpose, but simply to banish the feeling of cold distrust which he had now and again experienced.

  • Was that like the course which would be adopted by a man endeavouring to take advantage of a girl by means of a mock marriage?

  • From the blackness that engulfed her, the words "mock marriage" rang in her ear like the cry of the drowning.

  • At the State Street Police Station the woman said that Langdon had performed a mock marriage for a fellow student some four months ago.

  • Their marriage had only been a mock marriage.

  • God only knows what crafty and wicked enemy of mine wrote that lying letter to my poor, young wife, telling her that I had deceived her by a mock marriage.

  • One of the skin-clad men now pursues one of the two pretended brides, and a mock marriage is celebrated between the couple.

  • M19 The ceremonies include the forging of a ploughshare, a mock marriage, and a pretence of death and resurrection.

  • You said you were not in that letter; I have it yet; the one in which you told me it was a mock marriage, as, by your own confession, it seems you meant it should be.

  • I ingratiated myself at once into John Richards' good graces and when I knew it would answer, I suggested a mock marriage.

  • Miss Johnson, if I knew that George deliberately planned my ruin under the guise of a mock marriage, and then when it suited him deserted me as a toy of which he was tired, I should hate him!

  • Your pride was stronger than your love; and as I was determined that you should have my daughter, I proposed a mock marriage.


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