Sentence examples for not elope from inspiring English sources

She told him that she could not elope without her family present, and he replied that in that case it would not really be an elopement.

If only my headstrong sister Lydia had not eloped with Mr Wickham, all would be well".

Crucial figures seem steamrolled by plot, too flat to bear the weight of event or engage our deepest sympathies; when Diana McClure - the cool cookie who plays Daisy to Solomon Gursky's Gatsby - admits that she has ruined her life by not eloping with Solomon, we're curiously unmoved.

And furthermore: "There's no antelope/Who feels that he can't elope".

So much so that Scott complained after the novel was published why Ivanhoe didn't elope with the Jewish Rebecca, rather than the boring shiksa Rowena.

"In the '70s she had a sign on her desk at the factory that said, 'Don't Elope,' " said Ms. Howard, an associate professor of history at Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y.

In case you're being tempted, don't elope just yet.

I'm not saying eloping and taking a month off to travel is a great option for everyone, but I am saying that it's an option if you want it to be.

"The day of the wedding, I'll be making sure the tent is facing the right side of the river and meeting with the lighting people," Ms. Edmonds said, listing her responsibilities, but she didn't consider eloping.

At another point it seems that she and Fitzgerald have planned, perhaps not seriously, to elope.

Everything has a price in Oliver Goldsmith's social comedy, where even the most love-struck heroine will not agree to elope without her promised cache of jewels.