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About thy body now I swathe this Phrygian robe of honour, which should have clad thee on thy marriage-day, wedded to the noblest of Asia's daughters.
The Trojan Women 2008
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Usually half of it is paid down on the marriage-day and the other half when the husband dies or divorces his wife.
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About thy body now I swathe this Phrygian robe of honour, which should have clad thee on thy marriage-day, wedded to the noblest of Asia's daughters.
The Trojan Women 2008
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Perhaps she never looked as well in her life as she did on her marriage-day.
Eug�nie Grandet 2007
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A struggle ensued, in which I have no doubt I should have had the better, but that the Captain, joining suddenly in the general and indecent hilarity, which was doubled when I fell down, stopped and said, ‘Well, Jims, I won’t fight on my marriage-day.
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006
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A struggle ensued, in which I have no doubt I should have had the better, but that the Captain, joining suddenly in the general and indecent hilarity, which was doubled when I fell down, stopped and said, ‘Well, Jims, I won’t fight on my marriage-day.
Burlesques 2006
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But his Suke had, since that meeting on their marriage-day, repentantly admitted, to the urgency of his questioning, a good deal concerning her past levities.
The Woodlanders 2006
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I am a single man (she was too good for this world and for me, and she died six weeks before our marriage-day), so when I am ashore, I live in my house at Poplar.
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'Like me no longer, then, - love me instead: fix our marriage-day.
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The heavens did not fall before the marriage-day, and the wedded pair betook themselves for a few weeks to the Continent.
New Grub Street 2003
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