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Meanings of lawful wedlock in English

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Usage of lawful wedlock in English
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All these were the children of Po-Po, begotten in lawful wedlock.
Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas
2
The Hamley property was entailed on "heirs male born in lawful wedlock."
Wives and Daughters
3
You must know that I am of high descent, though not through lawful wedlock.
Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volum...
4
A declaration that your marriage is good and your boy born in lawful wedlock?
The Lady of Blossholme
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Wherefor I purpose asking her to wife from the Sultan her sire in lawful wedlock.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13
6
Yes, poor little fellow-bornin lawful wedlock, thank God.
Jude the Obscure
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I am Carew's only son, begotten in lawful wedlock.
Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel
8
Here we're not abroad, but in mother Russia; we shall have to think of lawful wedlock.
The Darling and Other Stories
9
We were united in lawful wedlock and she bore me off into the country like a treasure.
Crime and Punishment
10
Let me offer my name, acquired in lawful wedlock, a name that has run the alphabet from Aposhawaite to Zostlewaite.
The new yorker
11
Mr. Monson, that would be degrading lawful wedlock to the level of a bet-a game of cards- amercenary ,contemptiblebargain.
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
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The parents, both at Windsor and at Brunswick welcomed the avowal by the royal prodigal of the claims of lawful wedlock.
William Pitt and the Great War
13
Since then, you know, I have had time to enter into lawful wedlock, as they say... Oh...
Best Russian Short Stories
14
Illegitimate and adopted sons, if they have contributed their share of labour, have the same rights as the sons born in lawful wedlock.
Russia
15
Thou didst refuse to give her to Esau in lawful wedlock, and now she will fall a victim to the ravisher's illicit passion.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1
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Even those two, however, should receive the same rites of purification that are laid down for the sons begotten by the father in lawful wedlock.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
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