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bride and daughter
The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ervin Glison of Pampa, has attended Texas Woman's University and will continue her studies at Aj.
To propitiate Ares, Cadmus took as a bride Harmonia, daughter of Ares ' union with Aphrodite, thus harmonizing all strife and founding the city of Thebes.
Some myths state that in the end, Hera befriended Heracles for saving her from Porphyrion, a giant who tried to rape her during the Gigantomachy, and that she even gave her daughter Hebe as his bride.
In 929 the city went to Edward the Elder's daughter Edith, through her marriage to Henry's son Otto I, as a Morgengabe — a Germanic customary gift received by the new bride from the groom and his family after the wedding night.
In the poem, the jötunn Þrymr mistakenly thinks that he will be receiving the goddess Freyja as his bride, and while telling his fellow jötunn to spread straw on the benches in preparation for the arrival of Freyja, he refers to her as the daughter of Njörðr of Nóatún.
Aegeus, one of the primordial kings of Athens, found a bride, Aethra who was the daughter of king Pittheus at Troezen, a small city southwest of Athens.
Afterward, feigning to be tired of her, and to have taken another wife, he turns her out of doors in her shift, and brings his daughter into the house in guise of his bride ; but, finding her patient under it all, he brings her home again, and shows her children, now grown up, and honours her, and causes her to be honoured, as Marchioness.
The bride was Gytha, daughter of the courtier Osgod Clapa.
Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter, offers herself as the next bride and her father reluctantly agrees.
In The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne – one of the most famous stories of the cycle – the High King Cormac mac Airt promises the now aging Fionn his daughter Gráinne as his bride, but Gráinne falls instead for one of the Fianna, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, and the pair runs away together with Fionn in pursuit.
On his journey, he crossed into the county of Hainaut to inspect the daughters of Count William of Hainaut, in order to determine which daughter would be the most suitable as an eventual bride for Prince Edward.
The other was his nephew's fiancée, the daughter of Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, who was taken as a bride by the queen's son, Thomas Grey, with Edward's approval.
This bride-price was usually then handed over by her father to the bride upon her marriage, and so returned into the bridegroom's possession, along with her dowry, which was her portion of the family's inheritance as a daughter.
For her own part, Margaret's family were far more powerful and secure than they had been in 1454: her father had been killed at the Battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460, but her brother was now Edward IV, opposed ineffectively only by Margaret of Anjou and her son, Edward of Westminster ; this made Margaret a far more valuable bride than she had been as the mere daughter of a Duke.
There was a fourth figure, Elektra's daughter, Harmonia, whom Cadmus took away as a bride, as Zeus had abducted Europa.
Pindar even urges his hearers to " Praise the sea maid, daughter of Aphrodite, bride of Helios, this isle of Rhodes.
With his wife Kleopatra, daughter of Idas and Marpessa, he had a daughter, Polydora, who became the bride of Protesilaus, who left her bed on their wedding-night to join the expedition to Troy.
Scáthach eventually promises her daughter to him, without requiring the traditional bride price.
His bride was Mary Crowninshield Endicott, daughter of the US Secretary for War, William Crowninshield Endicott.
Their servant Lauamatoto ascends to heaven in order to find a bride suitable for Tafa ' i. He convinces the goddess Sina-tae-o-i-lagi, daughter of Tagaloa-lagi, to give an audience to the Tafa ' i and his brother, who disguise themselves as ugly old men in order to reach her court safely.
In 1803, Patterson's daughter Elizabeth Patterson married Napoléon Bonaparte's brother Jérôme, but when she arrived in Europe as Jérôme's bride, Napoléon refused to let Betsy Patterson Bonaparte set foot on land.
He and his bride, Sarah Holderby, a daughter of Joseph Holderby of the northern part of the county, moved into the frame house Reuben Reid had built across from his store.
The preparation of the " paja " for the parents of the bride is a pleasure which means also accomplishing the obligations toward the daughter.

bride and Baker
Henry Fry and Rebecca Baker having concluded to be married, started, in company with Catharine Miller, Mary and Abraham Baker ( two sisters and the brother of the intended bride ,) and William Patterson, for Ste.

bride and late
If the wedding party lasted late, and the travel schedule means there are only a few hours before resuming the trip or making an early start, the husband may forestall tensions and uncertainties by confiding to his bride that lying in each other's arms will be bliss enough for these few hours.
A bride from the late 1800s wearing a black or dark colored wedding dress.
File: Wed-dress-001. jpg | American bride in the late 19th century, wearing a fashionable dark-colored dress
Murders are typically carried out by burning the bride to death, a practice influenced by the older custom of sati, where a mourning widow would die by throwing herself onto the burning funeral pyre of her late husband.
In late Tsarist Russia the dowry originally consisted of clothing for the bride, linen, and bedding.
After the close of the Seven Years ' War, the prince visited England with his bride, the daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and in 1766 he went to France, being received both by his allies and his late enemies with every token of respect.
Joe decides to travel the world to gain his revenge on Neo Zeed as well as try to save his bride before it's too late.
Although they were quite young, David and Ruth wanted to marry before David was drafted and the ceremony was held in late November 1942, when the groom was 20 and the bride just 18.
She has no idea that Dick is already married, let alone that his bride is her own Aunt Katafa ( Katafa being an adopted daughter of the late priestess Le Juan and therefore sister to Le Jenabon, Le Juan's biological daughter, who is Le Moan's mother ).
At the ceremony, everything is in order, until it seems the bride is late.

bride and was
Or was it her own first ball as mistress of this big house, a Van Rensselaer bride from way upstate near Albany, from Rensselaerwyck.
`` Once, when the editor was just out of the hospital from a gallstone operation, Mrs. Calhoun and the mother of the bride went out to his house and fought it out beside his bed.
She'd be sure to remember any bride who was vague about background.
There was a marked contrast in the amount of information on bride and groom.
The one line on the bride said she was Miss Lisa Carmody from Baton Rouge.
Dr. W. B. I. Martin officiated, and the bride was given in marriage by her father.
The bride was given in marriage by her father.
Dan Beam presented music and the bride was given in marriage by her father.
It was as blissful and fulfilling a night as any bride ever experienced.
I was practically a bride, after all.
He had loved and lost Vivian Wayne to somebody else, had watched her marry the somebody else, and had caught a bear of a cold by kissing the bride good-by forever, which was really piling it on.
Some historians speculate that it was his conservative powerbase's disapproval of his foreign, non-Orthodox bride, more so than her appearance, that caused Alexei to spurn Charlotte.
The bride was probably of about the same age.
The choice of The Marriage of Figaro was considered improper for a new bride by many observers, and the couple left the opera theater early without seeing the entire work performed.
Little is known about their first impressions of each other, but Arthur did write to his parents-in-law that he would be " a true and loving husband " and told his parents that he was immensely happy to " behold the face of his lovely bride ".
Once married, Arthur was sent to Ludlow Castle on the borders of Wales to preside over the Council of Wales and the Marches, as was his duty as Prince of Wales, and his bride accompanied him.
Like the adjacent Arabic culture ( in the pre-Islamic period ), the act of marriage appears mainly to have consisted of the groom fetching the bride, although among the Israelites ( unlike the Arabs ) the procession was a festive occasion, accompanied by music, dancing, and lights.
" It also found that Cosmas confuses Dobrawa with Mieszko I's second wife Oda, who at the time of her marriage was around 19 – 25 years old, a relatively advanced age for a bride according to the customs of the Middle Ages.
The King, however, was madly in love with his beautiful and worldly bride and granted her every whim, even though her behavior baffled and vexed him no end.
Derby had promised Oxford his new bride would have £ 1, 000 a year, but the financial provision for her was slow in materializing.
He was a member of the company of i Gelosi which Henry IV of France summoned to Paris to his bride, the young queen Marie de Medici, thus introducing the commedia dell ' arte style to France.
One very notable social renegade was an aristocratic descendant of the Gracchi, infamous for his marriage ( as a bride ) to a male horn player.
In myth and cult, fragmentary references and archaic practices remain of the sacred marriage of Hera and Zeus, and at Plataea, there was a sculpture of Hera seated as a bride by Callimachus, as well as the matronly standing Hera.

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