Lord Brockhurst's domineering wife Lady Brockhurst is also introduced.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

A friend of mine in New Mexico said the Court order had caused no particular trouble out there, that all had gone as merry as a marriage bell.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

The store was their marriage, and when Alfred had to leave it there was nothing to hold them together.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

And at three different times during our turbulent marriage strange girls, with the commonest of accents, telephoned to announce to me that Letch had sired their unborn children!!

I really loved that boy, and, in a feverish attempt to preserve our marriage and to try to revive the wonderful, wonderful person Letch had once been, I took my troubles to Momma, hoping that her earthy advice would help me.

Since Mrs. Calhoun remembered only that the marriage had been in the spring, he started to plod through several months.

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

But before she left her room she dug into her big moire bag, took out the envelope holding her marriage contract and the wax seal had been broken.

It might be, indeed it had already proved to be a marriage without love, but it was marriage.

The marriage of John and Mary Black had clearly reached the breaking point after eight years.

He believes that greatness is a marriage between the man and the times as was aptly represented by Churchill, who would very possibly have gone down in history as a political failure if it had not been for Hitler's war.

For the first few months of their marriage she had tried to be nice about Gunny, going out with him to watch this pearl without price stamp imperiously around in her stall.

they were husband and wife, and Myra had no right muddling and chilling their marriage.

I had had no wedding ceremony, no witnesses, no certificate of marriage, but I had all the joy that goes with them.

He saw later that they had made their marriage too quickly.

Mary was free to marry again, not knowing that the Sturch had secretly given her a divorce, thinking that death had dissolved her marriage.

There was widespread opposition to the introduction of regular congregational Communion, partly because the extra costs of bread and wine that would fall on the parish ; but mainly out of an intense resistance to undertaking in regular worship, a religious practice previously associated with marriage or illness.

He also publicized the previously secret practice of plural marriage, a form of polygamy.

The marriage, however, caused a stir within St. Thomas ’ small Jewish community, either because Rachel was outside the faith or because she was previously married to Frederick's uncle, and in subsequent years his four children were forced to attend the all-black primary school.

In 1852 church leaders publicized the previously secret practice of plural marriage, a form of polygamy.

Henry claimed, citing biblical passages ( Leviticus 20: 21 ), that his marriage to Catherine was unclean because she was previously married, briefly at age 16, to his late brother ( Mary's uncle ) Arthur.

He is upset by this development because he loves Desdemona and had previously asked her father for her hand in marriage.

Both had been married previously and Richie had two sons from an earlier marriage.

One theory is that greater prosperity allowed people to finance marriage and new households earlier than previously possible.

Days of Wine and Roses, a dark psychological film about the effects of alcoholism on a previously happy marriage, starred Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick.

After Philip's death in 1567, the territory was divided up among his four sons from his first marriage ( Philip was a bigamist ) into four lines: Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ), Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Rheinfels and the also previously existing Hesse-Marburg.

It had been previously arranged that her eldest daughter Joan should marry Hugh, and the little girl was being brought up at the Lusignan court in preparation for her marriage.

This marriage was probably intended to strengthen Michael's position as Emperor, but it incurred the opposition of the clergy, as Euphrosyne had previously become a nun.

Although he had previously served Richard's father, Henry II, against Richard's rebellions, Richard confirmed the old King's licence for his marriage with the heiress of Strigul and Pembroke.

The couple previously lived with their two children, daughter Sammy and son Toby in Esher, plus two children from Ingrid's previous marriage, Dexter and Fia, the latter a radio presenter with Reading 107 FM.

At three to seven years into a marriage, it takes increased stimulation to produce the sexual excitation previously obtained by a glance or simple touch.

This marriage was dissolved in 1933 and he later married Prascovie ( Pauline ) Tchitchkine, previously the partner of Alexis Tchitchkine.

After the marriage of Iotapa and Alexander occurred in Rome, Nero crowned them Queen and King of Cetis, a small region in Cilicia, that was previously ruled by her father.

He divorced his first wife ( Diana Churchill ) in 1960 and married Marie-Claire ( née Schmitt, previously married to Viscount Hudson ) in 1962, the marriage lasting until his death.

English common law defined the crime of seduction as a felony committed " when a male person induced an unmarried female of previously chaste character to engage in an act of sexual intercourse on a promise of marriage.

The announcement made Obama the first United States president to publicly declare his support of same-sex marriage while in office, and marked a departure from his previous stance on the issue, although Obama had previously made comments in support of same-sex marriage as early as the 1990s during his campaign for the Illinois Senate.

Believing that marriage is a celebration of God's love, the church recognizes and celebrates all legal marriages, including same-sex couples, previously divorced people, and couples of different religions.

He thus gives his conniving Chamberlain, Marinelli, the right to do anything in his power to delay the previously arranged marriage between Emilia and Count Appiani.

She was previously married to banker Thomas Troubridge ; they separated in 1973, divorced in 1977, and had their marriage annulled by the Roman Catholic Church a year later, two months before her marriage to Prince Michael.