bride-bed

Their song sung, their small rite done of turning back the bride-bed and sprinkling it with perfume, they had nothing to do.

Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

Then, modestly lifting her eyes, she turned her calm gaze upon him; and straightway, the pretended marriage being put away, went up unto the bride-bed to be his wife.

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

Then, finally, old Wellington Monroe built a house into the walls for the young wife he was about to marry, but he went to the coffin instead of the bride-bed, and the house stood empty.

The Sleuth of St. James's Square Melville Davisson Post

Also, in order to test her mind more surely, he feigned that a woman was about to become his wife, and, as he went up into the bride-bed, gave

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

QUOTATION: I thought thy bride-bed to have deck’d, sweet maid,

Quotations 1919

I thought thy bride-bed to have deck’d, sweet maid,

Act V. Scene I. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1914

For the rest, each kept himself going by means of his own earnings; one had sent footwear to the West Indies, and another had made the bride-bed for the burgomaster's daughter; they maintained themselves as a caste and looked down with contempt upon the people.

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

For the rest, each kept himself going by means of his own earnings; one had sent footwear to the West Indies, and another had made the bride-bed for the burgomaster's daughter; they maintained themselves as a caste and looked down with contempt upon the people.

Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

I thought thy bride-bed to have deck’d, sweet maid, 116

Act V. Scene I 1909

And the bride-bed she weaves them, with myrtle enlacing, with curtains of green.

Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903