Wedlock in example sentence

The surgeon of dragoons approached the former, and as he handed her to a chair, observed,-"It appears, madam, that untoward circumstances have prevented Colonel Wellmere from providing all of the decorations that custom, antiquity, and the canons of the church have prescribed, as indispensable to enter into the honorable state of wedlock."

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And of course, that's a much better thing to get people for than the things we used to get people for, like having children out of wedlock.

The film also contains the idiotic subplot of Norris and his girlfriend having a child out of wedlock; it's so 1980's.

I saw this movie in its own time period, when having a baby out of wedlock not only ruined your life, but stamped your child as a bastard.

Plot about a female bartender having a baby out of wedlock, and years later giving the young girl over to the child's wealthy father so she'll have a shot at a better life, can't escape tatty, old-fashioned trappings and sentiment.

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