bonds of wedlock

The progeny of Border lairds and reivers outwith the bonds of wedlock.'

Then, within a few days, Helena, the maiden sister of Constantius, was joined in the bonds of wedlock to the Caesar."

At eleven o'clock the next morning they were united in the bonds of wedlock; the landlord and the landlady of the public-house in which they had both served being the only witnesses present.

TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS The bonds of wedlock are so heavy that it takes two to carry them - sometimes three.

Thus, in the production designed by Isamu Noguchi, ropes represent the bonds of wedlock at one moment and the umbilical cord at another, and a sculptural construction is at various times reminiscent of a bed, a torture rack and a promontory on which a hero can stand in momentary triumph.