Wedlock in example sentence

"T'ink a Miss Sally's ring go on old Caesar finger?""'Tis not consequential whether it goes on or not," said the housekeeper; "but it is an evil omen to place a marriage ring on the finger of another after wedlock, and of course it may be dangerous before."

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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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