Sentence examples for refusal to marry from inspiring English sources

If true, it would explain the conditions of her life: her seclusion and refusal to marry.

It depends on a Biblical riff that arises from Frederica's refusal to marry Sir James.

Abject after a manic bout of illness, Bernard describes Frances's refusal to marry as "an attempt to escape the tedious daily struggle to love another human being".

Suspicion immediately fell upon Burdell's mistress (and landlady), Emma Cunningham, with whom he had been arguing violently over his ongoing refusal to marry her.

At school, I was enlivened by Elizabeth I's proto-feminist refusal to marry into Spain or France and end up an attack dog or breeding mare for either.

Andrei Sitnikov is not an exaggerated Lord Capulet but rather an autocratic patriarch enraged by his daughter's refusal to marry Paris.

Their friendship survived her regular refusals to marry him, but he was devastated after she took another nationalist, Major John MacBride, for her husband.

Her big moment in the novel is not an action but rather a refusal to act - to marry Henry Crawford because she knows in her heart he is bad news.

As I spoke to her, this mother was weeping as she explained her distress at Georgia's contradictory refusal to allow her to marry her partner while at the same time possibly taking her children away because she is not married.

He is saved for Harriet by the last-minute refusal of the Roman Catholic Clementina to marry a firmly committed English churchman.

In their view, the constitutional guarantee of "equal protection of the laws" is not violated by a state's refusal to allow gays and lesbians to marry.