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.

I wanted to grab her by the arm and beg her to wait, to consider, to know for certain because life is so long and marriage is so important.

Particularly important was his second marriage to the Anglo-Hungarian princess Margaret.

Many people in the early 19th century believed that marriage was an important aspect of life to " fulfill earthly human happiness.

The question of whether Theophylact and Theodora needed to tie Sergius to them by such means, particularly when Sergius was already deeply indebted to them for his elevation to the papacy, as well as wasting Marozia in a relationship when, as the daughter of an important house, she would have been a valuable tool to link via marriage to another noble house, is open to debate.

In Judaism, marriage is so important that remaining unmarried is deemed unnatural.

The marriage was important in bolstering William's status, as Flanders was one of the more powerful French territories, with ties to the French royal house and to the German emperors.

Most important, rather than being married off at the age of 12 or 13, Spartan law forbade the marriage of a girl until she was in her late teens or early 20s.

One of his most important territorial accretions, the principality of Halych-Volynia, was obtained by the marriage of his son Lubart with the daughter of the Galician prince.

Thomas J. DiLorenzo summarizes Block's theory well: " marriage affects men and women very differently in terms of their future earning abilities, and is therefore an important cause of the male / female wage gap ".

In Vietnam, the areca nut and the betel leaf are such important symbols of love and marriage that in Vietnamese the phrase " matters of betel and areca " ( chuyện trầu cau ) is synonymous with marriage.

The practice of morganatic marriage was most common in the German-speaking parts of Europe, where equality of birth ( Ebenbürtigkeit ) between the spouses was considered an important principle among the reigning houses and high nobility.

This marriage was important, as King Henry VII was descended from it, but Parliament declared that he was king by " right of conquest ", so some issues remained unresolved.

The most important deities were: Zeus, the supreme god and ruler of the sky ; Hera, his wife and goddess of marriage ; Athena, goddess of wisdom ; Poseidon, god of the sea ; Demeter, goddess of the earth ; Apollo, god of the sun, law, reason, music and poetry ; Artemis, goddess of the moon, the hunt and the wilderness ; Aphrodite, goddess of love ; Ares, God of war ; Hermes, god of commerce and medicine, and Hephaestus, god of fire and metalwork.

Champagne labels were designed with images of romantic love and marriage as well as other special occasions that were deemed important to women, such as the baptism of a child.

The patriarchal structure of a society is the single most important factor skewing the sex ratio in favor of males, accentuated in some cultures by the burden of raising a dowry for a daughter's marriage.

A large number of the Christian right view same-sex marriage as a central issue in the culture wars, more so that other gay rights issues and even more urgently important than abortion.

In fact, the most important divisions among different Jewish sects had to do with debates over three areas of law: marriage, Sabbath and religious festivals, and the Temple and purity.

Daughters were important political assets in a world where diplomacy and marriage were closely linked.

In the ensuing war, Charles's sack of Rome ( 1527 ) and virtual imprisonment of Pope Clement VII in 1527 prevented the Pope from annulling the marriage of Henry VIII of England and Charles's aunt Catherine of Aragon, with important consequences.

Although Plutarch claims that Marius ' father was a laborer, this is almost certainly false since Marius had connections with the nobility in Rome, he ran for local office in Arpinum, and he had marriage relations with the local nobility in Arpinum, which all combine to indicate that he was born into a locally important family of equestrian status.

Another important theme of the novel is the sexual double standard to which Tess falls victim ; despite being, in Hardy's view, a truly good woman, she is despised by society after losing her virginity before marriage.

The above taboo on marriage within one's abusua is sometimes ignored, but " clan membership " is still important, with many people still living in the abusua framework presented above.

In the Minangkabau matrilineal clan culture in Indonesia, a person's clan name is important in their marriage and their other cultural-related events.