Sentence examples similar to hymeneals from inspiring English sources

Here sacred pomp and genial feast delight, And solemn dance, and hymeneal rite; Along the street the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming, to the nuptial bed: The youthful dancers in a circle bound To the soft flute, and cithern's silver sound: Through the fair streets the matrons in a row Stand in their porches, and enjoy the show — The Iliad, Book XVIII, Trans.

There is something hymeneal about the final threshold he might yet cross tomorrow morning.

Mr Verver, inscrutably monotonous, patted the Principino, the Principino who need detain us no longer now the passage of hymeneal time has been indicated by the arrival of issue to his daughter, and wondered if the actuality of his not having remarried after the death of his wife was preventing her from obtaining the maximum immersion in the fact of her being married.