“Your confinement draws near, and your need is great, thus we will aid you. Isabel did testify to your virtue, though whether you are married or not is no matter now.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She sat up like a young lady who was engaged to be married. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She had been married to your father for twelve years. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I want a younger version of you, Mrs. Das. An old-fashioned girl who wants to get married. Raise a family. Grow old together. Is that too much to ask?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He thought about Captain FitzRoy, who had married a religious woman and was now a Bible literalist—he thought every word in the Bible was true. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And they are really to be married!” cried Elizabeth, as soon as they were by themselves. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“You see, darling, I had one experience of waiting to be married.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

My mother says that being married to my father is like having another child to watch after, one who’s too big and unpredictable to put in time-out. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

My grandparents would remain married for thirty-five years, until the day Ata Baba died of a heart attack. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"Yes," I said, "but..." and I told Doctor Nolan about the married woman lawyer and her Defense of Chastity. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

When she told him in the Italian restaurant that she was married, his expression had not changed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

To which her father replied, “Why shouldn’t she? Her grandfather married a Cherokee in Texas.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Though Julie laughs at everyone, she especially likes to laugh at Miss Ornsby and say, 'No wonder Miss Ornsby isn’t married. Can you imagine living with that on a daily basis?’ It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“To never grow up, never get married. To be a maiden eternally.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The hopes and ambitions they must’ve had, newly married and in love. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He had married on the rebound from the rotten time he had in college, and Frances took him on the rebound from his discovery that he had not been everything to his first wife. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Behind them, everyone was singing, “Oh meet me, in the tulips, when the tulips do blooom—” This is what they always sing at weddings when the married couple leaves. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Jack learned his aunt had been married two years before she was deported to Auschwitz and had since been reunited with her husband. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still, some of the older Dinka boys had married Anyuak girls, and they were staying behind. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would have married Qarl, and gladly, but she was Lord Baton’s daughter and he was common-born, the grandson of a thrall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Or did you mean Big Rose? That one’s Lolly’s true novia. They going to get married in their storage closet and have big-head, special babies.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

After they were married, Pa took care of Ma in every way. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Girls would no longer have to kill themselves rather than get married. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier in her life, she’d told her diary that she was going to have a family and get married in the Mormon temple. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There’s a nagging mother and her seemingly mute child, and an older couple who have been married for so long they’ve morphed into near identical androgynous versions of each other. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s what married people do. It’s what the Prophet himself and his wives did. There is no shame.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Or maybe you worry that folks would disapprove, but I don’t think they would, not if you two was married. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He became an engineer, married, and had four children. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I said, smiling a little at the notion of Rahim Khan getting married. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he was so attractive that she had difficulty not thinking about how attractive he was, and again wondered why he wasn’t married. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Once he had asked Elizabeth—they had been married a long while, Roy was a baby, and she was big with Sarah—if she had truly repented of her sin. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

"I hope you'll get married someday. And have me over for dinner once in a while. Check in on me. Make sure I'm not living backstage under a costume rack somewhere." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Paul had been my dad ever since Mom married him when I was five. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He married again and his new wife promptly died. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

When Macon married her and moved into Doctor’s house, she kept up the centerpiece- arranging. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where my pop used to go to visit his aunties and uncles and cousins every month before he got married, moved to Stockton and had kids. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Thing is, I’m not ready to get married. I’m too young.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We should have married,” she said, “and brought her up ourselves.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get married,” he said again, and she understood what he meant. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Among other areas of interest, their political beliefs and religion—both were Jewish—meshed perfectly, and eventually they married and settled in England. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The knight in whom I’m interested went back to find the pretty face, and learned that the princesses had spun themselves free and all gone and married, but one. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barack wasn’t opposed to getting married, but he was in no particular rush. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But these seniors said most boys were like that and you couldn't honestly accuse them of anything until you were at least pinned or engaged to be married. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Maybe she didn’t want to. Maybe she was ashamed of not being married.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure that within six months I would have enough money to get married, and that by the time the year was out I would be able to call myself a wealthy man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lean back and lift Flannery up to my face, thinking Tats would call this cosmic, me reading the line Are you married or are you single? just as Jeremy appears on the horizon. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

And I said, “Was that why Mr. Shears left Mrs. Shears, because he was doing sex with someone else when he was married to Airs. Shears?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She met and married an intense dark man—a man whose fingers were stained with chemicals, mostly silver nitrate. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That’s where she was from, and where she had married this sailor who was at sea now, and she hadn’t seen him in two and a half years. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was about a very lonely man who decided that he wanted to get married. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They became admirers of each other’s passion for justice, and then they found a deeper connection, fell in love, and got married. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His father, also called Edmond, was a prosperous businessman and landlord who married his mother, Anne Robinson, in a church ceremony only seven weeks before the birth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“This work is not for a married female. You are either going to neglect your work or neglect your family” were the words of a superior officer long ago. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he had married her, Henry hadn’t allowed Estella to dance, and his jealousy dictated what clothes she wore. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Your father came here a couple of times before we were married.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He was the one people went to when a baby was born or when someone in the community died or when a couple wanted to get married or when someone needed food or money. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The house that Daddy bragged about building with his own two hands after he married Mama. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

"What would you choose if you were getting married?" she asks me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And yet they had met; after all her adventures, it was he whom she had married. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He took it out in boxing, and he came out of Princeton with painful self-consciousness and the flattened nose, and was married by the first girl who was nice to him. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“That’s why we never see her. She married well. Some rich Cuban she met. They live in Miami.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Seeing a real nice girl name Frances and I spec they was gone get married, but he was slow bout things like that. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I was already married and my husband yet lived, though he had abandoned me and I him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before Orpheus suggested that they run away and get married. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

She is married, and talks about her husband like he’s her favorite everything. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Good night, you two. Ben, when are you and I going to run off and get married?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So...is that the only really big difference between the two worlds? Who your mom married? And then did that lead to all the other differences? What state they lived in, and...?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Did you feel that way when Papa married that woman?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m happy to see David getting married. He’s a nice Jewish boy.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop a moment, I am coming to that. No, she was not an only child; she had a half-brother. Her father privately married again—his cook, I rather think.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I swear, Gitl, that man is already henpecked and not even married to you yet.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She left him childless after three years and married a man in Khost. She bore him three daughters. That’s what I am trying to tell you.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But she was married now, and he was a steady sort of man, and she grew, gradually, close to him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’s married four years, five children and another on the way. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Moving back to India would be our doom—the two of us married off to "suitable" Bengali boys and Ma stuck in a small flat with a mother-in-law she hates. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And I knew by his eyes that no guile had he, So I married my man from the North Country. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I heard him say that if she ever married her boyfriend, he would never give her his blessing. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Using her marriage name and saying nothing about her previous marriage, she was married again in City Hall but by a different clerk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There she met and married a Native American by the name of Brown. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s how it looks. People don’t think it looks right for people who aren’t married to live together in the same house.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

You want me to get married young and have kids, and I'm giving you none of that. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Of her children, two sons and two daughters, only the younger girl, Barbara, had entered ordinary life, married, begun raising a family. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She subscribed wholeheartedly to the commonly held view that a married daughter had no position in her parents’ home. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Sisi got married last year, Mama gave her cartons and cartons of china and Sisi sat on the floor of the kitchen, crying loudly, while Mama watched her. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Just so you know, patent leather shoes should only be for men who are getting married. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could never forgive him for that. Horribly uncomfortable, having only one horn. But the situation was worse for poor Deianira. She could have had a long, happy life married to me.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She wants to be married to my father. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“She was given away to someone else. That broke his heart. Her name was Black Buffalo Woman. Later, though, Crazy Horse married a woman named Black Shawl.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Margaret will never admit it, and I will never expect her to, but she knows that my mother understands how she felt all those years ago when my mother and my dad got married. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t worked since she got married, and before that she’d only been an assistant in the offices of a magazine. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I thought, if I ever got married, apple blossoms were what I would like to have in the church. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“What is this? What are you doing? b the finest knight in Europe to throw away everything I have taught him for the sake of a lady’s beautiful eyes? And a married lady too!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I married and had children, and with work and God’s will I prospered, so that I am able today to enjoy my children, my grandchildren, my orchards and my gardens in peace and comfort. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! he told me all about it; that Jane Fairfax and Mr. Frank Churchill are to be married, and that they have been privately engaged to one another this long while. How very odd!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The only reason they got married was ’cause my pop got Moms pregnant. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Among the very poor and the wealthy, brothers married their adopted sisters, like doves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On May 21, 1917, they made a secret trip to Chicago, where a rabbi married them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He married her and made the baseball team his own, adding four more kids to make it an even twelve. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Arthur could not fight in his wife’s quarrel, just as married people are not allowed to give evidence against each other today. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, I am getting married on Saturday, August eleventh. At eleven a.m.—The Chapel on the Hillside,” she says. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Since he married Margaret though, they seem bright enough to give off light of their own. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I’ve loved you from the moment I laid eyes on you. But don’t you see? I’m married to August.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Back then, the Dodgers wanted their players to be married. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Mother used to tell a story from the time before she was married. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Garikayi married Chipo when she was only twelve, but she didn’t get pregnant till now. You can bet he’s anxious about it. He doesn’t have any children. It’s considered a disgrace.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor Holm was twenty-two years old, beautiful, married, and a minor celebrity, having performed bit parts in several Warner Brothers movies. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

What else do you say when your father announces he’s getting married? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

My Aunt Libby had married an Italian, and Teresa was my aunt's sister-in-law and our family doctor. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It’s feminine and beautiful, but there’s also some hurt feelings among the married women who aren’t invited to partake in the tradition because, well, their unions suck and no one wants the bad juju. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Not only that, but she got herself widowed, divorced, married, and pregnant—all in ten days’ time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Really, she’s used to wacky outfits and loud music. She was married to me, wasn’t she?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It would be Francie’s when she married and she was proud that it had come from the wood of that fine altar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Abby: Our son married a girl when he was in the service. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They had been married a decade when John Richardson developed a toothache so bad it made him fall from his horse. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Later Sherman, a married man, would run off to Europe with the daughter of a friend. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Several women of the 125th Guards ended up married to men of the 124th Regiment stationed near them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

No telling what they’d say about her going off to New York unchaperoned with a man she claimed she wasn’t really married to. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When I mentioned my sister’s name, he asked me if I had married her. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The eldest daughter, Eveanna, married and the mother of a boy ten months old, lived in northern Illinois but visited Holcomb frequently. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that Florence had married a black man did not sit well with her German relatives, and she was made to feel unwelcome. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

His parents had been married about one year. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t even vaguely interested in getting married again, but Zeitoun had turned out to be everything she had not believed possible: an honest man, honest to the core, hardworking, reliable, faithful, devoted to family. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Mr Stevens, I should think you and I could sit here now and count up at least a dozen between us that once said as much, then got married and left the profession.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

This only meant that he would not see Anulika get married, that he would not hold Nnesinachi in his arms as he had planned. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was keeping it, she explained, to replace the wedding ring her mother had given her, the one Dad had pawned shortly after they got married. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Soraya and I never went out alone together while preparations for the wedding proceeded—since we weren’t married yet, hadn’t even had a Shirini-khori, it was considered improper. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t understand, Ben,” Sammy whispered, “I’m gonna sneak up there and find out who Palmer’s with. He’s married and has two kids.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad did move out, and now he’s already married again. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I was always honest, saying that I was not ready to get married. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The married rebels barely had time to take leave of their wives, whom they left to their own devices. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His mother having married Granny’s daddy, they grew up together like brother and sister. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“And how can you even say something like that, being married to Mama?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“No drinking. Go to a speakeasy if you want to drink. I don’t want any trouble with the police. Now, about the rent. You just got married?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He had got out of the cedar chest his old black evening tailcoat, that he had been married in, and brushed it carefully, and put it on, too. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

These are the things that make him feel married. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Once we even—I went to Africa to . . .” To get married. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

They sat together, having an animated conversation about some jewelry Dada had bought for her when they had first gotten married. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They were happy living with Kumalo and they were pleased when he told them that he would be getting married. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Anna had fallen in love and was to be married, but she left her fiancé in Norway and crossed the ocean. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But Anthony had not experienced many of the frustrations and inequities that married women had to endure. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She and Jim had been married by a clerk in City Hall. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the others married and had babies right after high school. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” I answered, “I was thinking for the moment we would be married at home. Naturally I don’t expect a church, or people, or anything like that.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They had just boarded a train at Oakland, California, after the ceremony, and Mother was trying to appear blasé, as if she had been married for years. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the time I entered prison until I married, about twelve years later, because of Mr. Muhammad’s influence upon me, I had never touched a woman. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had once, she was quite sure, been in love with her, though he’d never said anything about it, and they’d both been married for years now. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Nineteen years that your mother and I have been married. She was eighteen when I married her.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He'd brought a pear as well and had wrapped it in a plastic bag so that its pus wouldn't stain the clothing he had packed a day earlier but bought long before he was married. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Nothing much, honey. But she sound like she going to get married.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

A week after they meet, they are married. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They married on July 4, 1878, before a justice of the peace. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the year she knew him, before they were married, she discovered a little magic in herself, and for a while felt like a blithe genie released from her lamp. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘That was just a trick we played so we could get married. I couldn’t stand another year of not talking! Please come and see your new grandchildren.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Bates, who was married and had six children, suddenly died, Hale had produced a dubious deed to his land. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Being quietly married was one thing; being married and a mother was quite another. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Instead I said: “But were you ever—did you ever—get married?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Many people questioned a married woman’s right to work—let alone to take a job that involved travel. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“No, we didn’t. And no, we’re not going to get married.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Going by her, you might be as old as twelve. That’s still a shocking age to get married.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all fashionably dressed and carefully made up, and several of them were married. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He thought of all the married shepherds he had known. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Al Campanis offered Glenn thousands of dollars to find a girlfriend and get married. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“Rachel got a scholarship to Washington State, and Rebecca married a Samoan surfer — she lives in Hawaii now.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was starting a new life at Purdue—he was even getting married—and I doubted he wanted responsibility for mine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her father’s lands would never be hers, no matter whom she married. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The same families married the same families until relationships were hopelessly entangled and the members of the community looked monotonously alike. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"Assistant district attorney. Judge: family court, state supreme court, appellate division. Appellate has two p's and two /'s. Never married, no children." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was six, and then Bruce married my mom when I was nine.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Apparently his report of seeing the newly married Charles Darwin with his bride made a big impact on the Horneritas. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousin was older than me, married with kids. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My family mourned me when I married your father. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Being in love and getting married, now, that’s two different things. I was in love once, of course I was. Nobody should go through life without falling in love.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she would have fallen in love with the boy, married him even. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She was going to get married, her one claim to fame. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the two women remembered that in China families married young boys to older girls, who baby-sat their husbands their whole lives. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1864, Woodhull divorced her husband, who had abandoned her, and married Colonel James Blood, a wounded Civil War veteran. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Joyce and Graham fell in love and got married. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“With my uncle. He wanted to get married, and there was a goldsmith he knew. He thought maybe he could still make him a ring. You wouldn’t believe what the SS do in there.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

My sister Adele was due to get married at the end of May, and I was going to be a bridesmaid. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I asked Winnie how many bridesmaids she intended to have, and suggested she go to Bizana to inform her parents that we were to be married. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had murdered his father, he had married his father’s wife, his own mother. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am the fifteenth girl to get married in this dress, made from a soldier's parachute. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Earlene was married before, but her husband drove a cab and got kilt in a holdup. “ Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu did not pay close attention to who was there, though, because, as he stared at the shabby white altar cloth, he imagined that he was getting married. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We’ll get married,” he said to her hours later as they lay in bed. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He had a wife, a young French girl called Marie whom he had recently married in Paris. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been the same if we had been married fifty times. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

This was the soil on which my great-grandfather had married his third wife a year before dying in the cholera epidemic that hit Kabul in 1915. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She thought they would just get married and take their knowledge to another family. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The man married her and became wealthy and prosperous. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little robot woman was just as guilty as the Parisian woman Masson married, or as Marie, who had wanted me to marry her. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

But en route to Iran, their dad married off my grandmother's fourteen-year-old sister against her will. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Since my graduation, she had married the school principal. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It was sweet,” lied Tyrion, “but I am married. She was with me at the feast, you may remember her. Lady Sansa.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I knew a girl who married a Curry boy. She was very beautiful. We were in school together. Her name was Minerva. Do you know her?” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them met, fell in love, and got married without ever setting foot on the same continent. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Plus, now she's writing a book about girls who are married off when they're young—yes, that still happens—so she stays locked in her office, popping out every now and then for snacks. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had married a lovely young girl but before they could raise a family she had died. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since when did he think it was okay to live with someone before getting married? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Only that she’d been born on a farm, raised on a farm, married to a farmer somewhere far from the sea, and that she had lost it all. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Ruth May whispered, “Donald Duck and Snow White, they got married.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At nineteen he married a rich widow fourteen years his senior, but at the outbreak of revolution in the colonies he unwisely sided with the loyalists, for a time spying on their behalf. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Of course, I ain't ever planning on getting married, much less to a war hero that got changed to one of those restless dead, but you never really knew what was in store for you. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

For the first fifteen years of their married life they had called each other just plain Biff and Alice. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Each married couple had its own secret words for things which were whispered in bed in the quiet of night. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And in a few years you will be married and living in your parents’ house,” Ghosh speculated. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped working on it three years ago, when he married Linda, his administrative assistant. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

How could he answer all of them if he succumbed to the mundane responsibilities of married life? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t at all the thing, I’m afraid, but the minute she was fairly married, Meg cried, “The first kiss for Marmee!” and turning, gave it with her heart on her lips. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many say retirement is the best part of life for a married couple. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He tells her that two years earlier he’d married Cady’s successor, but that his wife took her life in a fit of depression. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I married a man who could never love me, probably. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max had married Valerie back a million years ago, it seemed like, at Miracle School, where she worked as a potion ladler. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His son, Marcus, married an actress named Catherine Vine, and they had a child named Alexander. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I suppose if we really have this child we ought to get married,” Catherine said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was a successful artisan, a keen businessman, and a married man, devoted to his wife. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“We will be married, Fayge. Your father will marry us. Maybe not here, in your shul. Maybe not even under a wedding canopy.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This despite the fact that he is a married man. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid, who had been married for almost fifty years, did not wear any rings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one could force her to get married. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to get married,” he answered, separating the bride from the groom. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

And Aravis couldn't help looking up to see what Lasaraleen looked like now that she was married and a very great person indeed. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Three years later the rabbi married once again, and in 1929, two days before the stock market crash, Danny was born in the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There were the usual band of close relatives, and then some new ones, because folks had gotten married. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In many ways, both Charles and Emma had been preparing for his death since they were first married. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now married life prompted him to place a higher value on his free time from fund-raising and managing the lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In every one, where he showed up to tell her she was going to have the baby of babies, even though she wasn’t married yet, he had a big white lily for her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, Thupa Inka may have married two of his sisters. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Nope. Only four pints. My mom was white. My dad was a real reservation Indian. He came out this way, eventually married my mom, had me, then when they split he went back to Oklahoma.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“How can Tom be MacGregor’s son? Felicia’s married to Mr. Alacran.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ned Moffat had just married Sallie Gardiner, and Meg couldn’t help contrasting their fine house and carriage, many gifts, and splendid outfit with her own, and secretly wishing she could have the same. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were not married then; we have only been married a year.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I probably would have married anyway,” she said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Not only was he getting married, his country was having its five hundredth anniversary. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When I thought about Mtisha I could hook up some pictures of us getting married, going shopping in a mall, the whole thing. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I gently let her know that I was married. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d be married when they got to the North— and freedom. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made satin tufted shrouds: white ones for dead virgins, pale lavender for the young married, purple for the middle-aged and black for the old. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I used to have a Shona name, but Joao changed it when we got married,” she explained. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Violet was not married and I knew she lived with her mother in a house that had a high brick wall around it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a married couple, a big chunky man and a tiny, bubbly woman. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after they married and settled into a rented duplex in Shaker, Mr. Richardson started law school and Mrs. Richardson was offered a position as a junior reporter at the Sun Press. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

McBride had been married to a Creek Indian, now deceased, and was raising his stepdaughter. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I see goats skipping along the rocky coast of Greece where the shepherds are blind because they married their mothers by mistake. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When she was very old, she married again for companionship. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They said he had married and when the children came, had decided that there was more money in being a school engineer than in being a schoolteacher. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up my Aunt Betts who had gotten married to a rich man and was living in a fancy building on the East Side in Manhattan with a doorman. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dries has gotten married, and although the marriage is rocky at best, a disaster at worst, he is living the life of a married man. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I have a sister who lives way down that way. She’s married to a Navajo from Red Lake.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The music of Rabindranath Tagore is playing softly in the background—the same love songs Ranee used to sing to her husband when they were first married. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She married a great Whig politician, and was a famous London beauty for many years, but this portrait was painted before that, when she was still unmarried. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He announced that he was about to be married and he called his friends together for a celebration, including Perseus in the invitation. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t till later I discovered several church members had lived together for years as husband and wife and had never gotten married. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What of it? What? She’s too young, you think? She’s fourteen. Hardly a child. You were fifteen, remember? My mother was fourteen when she had me. Thirteen when she married.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

We married in September and spent our honeymoon picking cotton for the war effort. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could I continue to brag about their two-week courtship when I secretly knew they were no longer married? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Right after we were married, I lapsed into a voluptuous sloth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

What would happen if I just should happen, sometime, to think about getting married to somebody? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Deal,” the girl in pink said, “and if we get married someday, you’ll be my maid of honor for sure.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How’s it being married?” he might ask, and he’d nod at whatever she answered with, and he would not say a word about how he’d almost won the Silver Star for valor. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But not until a year after they were married. Tom Riddle left her while she was still pregnant.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The two older married women I’m teamed up with eat best—sandwiches and fruit. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had seen other girls get married, and their situation became even worse than the one I was already in. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re married a long time, you know. And women always hear everything, sooner or later. If you skip anything, some kind friend is sure to say, ‘Did your husband ever tell you about the time...’ Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home, Mutti drops another kind of bomb: She and Hugo are getting married. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s such a one for remembering. She might never get married, remembering.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew that even if he was married, I would not give him up. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was with her for years before she married, and practically brought her up. You are going to find Danny a very different sort of witness to Ben.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You have never been married? You are a spinster?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bayard, who was married to Elizabeth’s sister Tryphena, had been very close to his sister-in-law; they had enjoyed spending time together, reading novels, riding horses, and discussing philosophy and law. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“If I hadn’t decided to get married and have kids, I probably would’ve ended up in Milan or Paris.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had just married some well-to-do Boston white fellow. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, they settle on a strapless pale yellow gown, a hand-me-down from a glamorous aunt who used to be a beauty queen before she married and had kids. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The oldest man in the room—he looks like he’s around seventy—says he married his first wife because her name tasted like peanut butter. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Six months later I had married this bright, kind, green-eyed martial arts expert, who said he would protect me forever. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I loved a man who was forbidden to me. I enjoyed his caresses, then married him in secret. He renounced me and now he is dead. All of my family is dead.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It says: I love you, Kalinda, and I wish that we could one day be married and live together for the rest of our lives. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He married Una, perhaps, because she had little humor, and this reassured him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Uh, after that? You mean, like, get into college and get a job and get married and give you grandchildren and stay off drugs and live happily ever after?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

And I even know that he still loves Mom, only not in a married way. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Their romance blossomed in the heady days of the war, and they married in 1944 at the Winston family home on Lincoln Street. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He divorced his wife and married Victoria, who did not change her name. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He wanted to see his daughter married by the bishop, in a white gown, with an eighteen-foot train held aloft by pages and flower girls. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’ve invented a pill so married women don’t have to get pregnant. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Now she was married to Milton and Father Mike was married to Milton’s sister. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I want you to tell me about the thing you find yourself married to—your life, that is. I want you to tell me why you don’t think your life is ugly.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cunninghams and the Coninghams married each other until the spelling of the names was academic— academic unless a Cunningham wished to jape with a Coningham over land titles and took to the law. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He said he was going to get married the next month and was looking forward to it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In some other universe they are married, maybe with two children, or maybe with none. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Will you wear it after you get married?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as Jane had read Mr. Gardiner’s hope of Lydia’s being soon married, her joy burst forth, and every following sentence added to its exuberance. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I have been married to her all these years!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone had known for years that Steven and Emilia were going to get married. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She realized that her mother and father might not have been married at all. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The work was so hard and the proposals so constant that they married within a very short time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After we were married, I worked at a service-station near Kansas City. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

West Virginia might have come to equalization, but it still held the line on barring married women from the classroom. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He put away the handkerchief, saying, “I like to ride in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window any more when you’re married.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He asked me to do the same when he married his Jewish wife, Rondee, the following year. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three drummers led them into a hotel ballroom, announcing their arrival as a married couple to a room full of people I’m related to but have never met. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Polito, who spent his life wandering around, getting married three or four times and taking care of sheep in Wyoming, Montana, and Utah, had died young of the flu. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Floss Gaddis and Frank are going to be married as soon as he gets a raise. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Rachel, I believe I married one of them.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

God, I think he's going to wake up one day and discover he's married to her. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He and Rebecca married and he took a low-pressure job at the Department of Labor in Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Such public displays of affection can be embarrassing to a prepubescent girl like me who is not accustomed to being in the company of two married people who like each other. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he married, as all sons marry sooner or later. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Madoc married her seven years ago, and shortly after, she gave him a child, a sickly boy named Oak, with tiny, adorable horns on his head. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She read a letter from her sister, who was away in the East and who had engaged herself to be married. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you married?” he asked from the bed. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Your father and mother had the excitement and they weren’t married so you’re not in a state of grace. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And then, Frank, I begin to wonder myself, and I begin to doubt, and I have a fearful haunting feeling that I should never have married Maxim, that we are not going to be happy. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

His daughter Barbara was about to get married, and she and his wife had gone downtown to pick out patterns for her crystal and silverware. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in order to get married, I needed a job, and in order to get a job, I needed a Ph.D. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you were eighteen when you married him.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mary, I have been married to Mr. Rochester this morning.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It tore man from God, as Danny put it, and married him off to Satan. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They married and raised two daughters, both of whom were enrolled in a Pyongyang school that trained multilingual spies. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A month after I asked her, we got married. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For ten years he came along, but when he left her he was the same man she had married. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had written many popular German plays and poems in his time, and had married a famous German actress named Resi North. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt that the obsession driving Bobby was I must get married, I must have a child, I cannot die without an offspring, or else my genius will vanish forever. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“In this community, polygamists are breaking the law, even if they have married in the presence of a judge, with the statement of ‘I do’ and the signed document in their own hand. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I had not thought of getting married so soon.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Despite she was married now, and a mother, she hadn’t grown up any that I could see. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She thought it undignified and irresponsible, this old married man telling her stories; it was like showing her his unclean underwear. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You act like a married man,” he said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was married, a US citizen, an army veteran, and a teacher. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Then when? Five years we’ve been married and no children. You’re always sick, tired, this, that. Have you been taking the castor oil?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“If I lived in your time, I would have married her. Or tried to.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Next day at five o'clock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver and started off on a three months' trip to the South Seas. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had gotten married and bought a run-down Victorian house on Long Island that he restored, and he and his wife had a child, a little girl. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mary, her mother, was distressed because Sissy hadn’t married in the church. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fight and the darkness had kissed each other, and were married now, forever, in the life and the vision of John’s soul. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I was just nineteen when you were born. I was eighteen when I married your father.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we married— if I married anybody from this town—these would be my friends, and I couldn’t think of a thing to say to them. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But, she thought, if she married Daniel, perhaps Naka could send her to school. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want it scraped off. I want Camp to be reminded how dumb he is every time he comes in this parlor. Will, I cain’t bear to think I’m married to somebody that stupid.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Couples asked permission to be married at the highest point on the wheel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Katie, at seventeen, had only been working four years when she married. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then Pa married Miss Marva Hendrix and Uncle Darnell left us and Big Ma got on a Greyhound and returned to her house in Alabama. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Some of the ones he said were flits were even married, for God's sake. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

And they all lived happily until their daughter grew up and got married and had kids of her own. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Those that are married already”—Hamlet paused, and I gazed up at him with a remnant of hope. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My uncle’s daughter had married a man who worked at a bank in the capital. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They married the children of Colonel Maycomb’s troops, were fruitful, and established what the county called the Eight Families. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Girls were scared a man would come out from somewhere and put his teapot in them like they was married. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1860, Stanton prepared a speech in defense of married women’s property rights and returned before the Judiciary Committee of the New York State Legislature to present it. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Yes, modern Afghan women married to modern Afghan men who did not mind that their wives walked among strangers with makeup on their faces and nothing on their heads. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

At my request we were married in that room by the village chief, in a ceremony that was neither quite Christian nor Bantu. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She must be a beauty. You got married fast enough. Which did you do first, introduce yourself or propose?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“That he must never regret that we were married, because he's made me so happy.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Meaning my brother, who married his high school sweetheart and had three perfect kids. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Why would he ask a thing like that when she was already married and also had just finished saying how much she hated the man? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The crazy part is my parents are still married. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I certainly knew that getting married meant you were supposed to sleep in the same bed, and that the bed had a lot to do with having babies. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In the case of marrying, the dramatis personae include the person being married and the person doing the marrying. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I would have married you anyhow, and she knew it. Her preference did not matter.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

So, even though it was not tradition, after her husband died, the woman went to live with her newly married daughter in the city. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Anne Marie, his mom, was in my grade. Sweet, pretty. Cheerleader. Nice to everyone. We all thought she’d turn Clint a little nicer when they got married. Guess that didn’t happen.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Her first thought was that he was married. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He resisted the introduction, but she married him anyway, only to discover that he was suffering from and enjoying an invincible melancholy. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it was Cooper, but my married name is Lacks.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to marry him! I’m never going to get married!” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“She’s a heart surgeon in New York, married to a handsome man in publishing. She’s got a beautiful child and the life she always dreamed of.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She had married the journalist Roberto Suirez, who was assigned to the National Palace and, though critical of the regime, wrote the flowery feature articles required of him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I hide it back in the pocket of my winter coat I’ve never worn, since I’ve read zero books after I married Leroy and I don’t want to make him suspicious with this one. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

You will get married and have kids and responsibilities that make it hard to talk on the phone daily or see each other very often. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Of course— because you and Ron aren’t married Rose — There’s giggling. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

It was a good while and he no longer carried the flowers, and when he returned to the gate, he was engaged to be married. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes, I don’t know why I married him.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I told him we'd been married four years. You see, darling, if I marry you I'll be an American and any time we’re married under American law the child is legitimate.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I thought about the market and festivals back home, how everyone talked to everyone, chatting about which pepper looked ripe, who was getting married, who had a baby, who was sick, who was moving. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was never established whether it had really caused the death of the birds, but the newly married women did not bear the predicted monsters, nor did the intensity of the heat decrease. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She throws out inside tidbits of information about him: he was married in Hungary, but his wife didn’t come with him and now he’s divorced. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad left the air force after he got married because he wanted to make a fortune for his family, and you couldn’t do that in the military. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Seemed like they’d want to get married and get it over with. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You were wondering if there was ever a time when I almost got married.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke softly, “We will be married—in the church.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her ‘wife.’ If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So instead 1 tell my mother this: “I don’t really know. It’s something we started before we got married. And for some reason we never stopped.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d sit there memorizing every word, and Dad would look at Mother as if he was sure he had married the most wonderful person in the world. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time maybe, I really thought I was going to get married. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I also remembered the page that said, “Adam is your oldest brother. He is married and lives one hundred miles away.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cecile had already told me to mind my business about her feelings and about Pa, but I still wanted to know why my parents didn’t get married. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She looked happy, and it seemed so obvious at that moment that they should get married. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She didn't speak a word of Farsi and ended up married to an Iranian man who was in his early twenties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Now, in July 1838, as he headed toward Maer, he knew that the woman he married would have to be one who would not fight his passion for beetles and beaks of finches. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we drove to Las Vegas, got married, and gambled away a few dollars. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t even like having married women there,” she added. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He married and had children, but his post-traumatic stress disorder continued to undermine his ability to manage his behavior. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Woodhull married a wealthy English banker and lived comfortably the rest of her life; Tennessee Claflin married Francis Cook, a member of the British nobility, and became Lady Cook. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes people get married just so he’ll buy them a house—not one with a bird room—a little one with cockroaches. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But he finally answered that he believed her to be well and married to a rich gentleman. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Having returned to England in 1602, Harvey married Elizabeth Browne, the daughter of Lancelot Browne, physician to Elizabeth I, in 1604. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Light-skinned people deliberately married other light-skinned people so they’d have light-skinned children. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She was twenty-three and she and Dad had already been married for a year. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about two years ago, before we got married. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She married him after a short courtship but soon realized that her husband was obsessed with wealth and fame. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And when he could not keep quiet, she told him many things — that she thought about leaving him, that she wished she had not married him, that she knew herself wanted by other men. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if she was trying to pass herself off as a respectable married lady in this, one of the nicer barrios of San Francisco. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I miss my brother William,'' said Sarah. "But he is married. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

The third of five children, she was born to a mother who was a cook and to a laborer father whom, though the parents had married, she didn’t meet until she was ten. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Kyle had just finished a pretty cool story called “A Scandal in Bohemia,” about a king who was going to get married to a royal heiress with maybe six names. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Blakeslee,” she said, her eyes cast down, “I don’t want an annulment. If I weren’t married to you, I still wouldn’t marry him.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

From his palms water always poured, even after we married. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose he’s married to an educated woman who helped him?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you hear I’m going to get married?” he said presently. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“But...but I thought you meant you wanted to get married!” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The vast majority of these “anti” women were educated, married, wealthy white women, who enjoyed the privileges of their status without considering the practical problems facing poor and powerless working-class women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In this village, I'd have been married off at eighteen at the latest, and we probably would have two or three children by now. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He also gave us “fiancé” and “fiancée,” two fancy French words for the folks who are going to be married. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair cut, and getting born. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

People say they got married, but I’ve never seen any proof. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She had married a bullheaded man, a sometimes ridiculously stubborn man. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Woody already lived there, and one of my older sisters had married a Terminal Island boy. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who ever heard of a married lady wanting to pretend she was still an old maid—even to having a room to herself? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Once, before she married me, it was Blanca up there, and it still pained her to have lost such a privilege. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“It is, isn’t it? He’s been trouble already, hasn’t he? You can’t fool me. I was married for thirty-two years, raised two sons, and expect to soon have a husband again.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Just before Labor Day, the boss called Francie into his private office and informed her that Miss Armstrong was leaving to be married. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My parents are still married. I have to call them at the same time every night—in thirty minutes, actually. They're overprotective, I guess, but normal. We're really boring.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

These are the first words I ever penned as a married lady. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Anuli, I was on my way to see you. I hear you are getting married!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Besides, nobody gets married anymore, and if they do, they don't wear silly wedding dresses." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I never saw much of your mom after they got married. He made it...difficult for your mother to have any friends." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t she just tell Mr. Cowboy she was already married? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She was twenty- four and seven years married when she knew. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Uncle Tony had been married to Momly for forever and never knew how to cook much of nothing, which was ridiculous to me. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“If they don’t go here, they go across to Gimpy’s, see? And it’s better they come here because I’m a married man,” he said virtuously, “and I don’t take girls in my back room, see?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would have to be married under Italian law and the formalities were terrific. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I use to cook too when I was married,” Darlene told them. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She does not know how beautiful I was when I married this man. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think having a blueprint makes life boring. Maybe I don’t want to get married or have kids or any of that. Maybe I just want a career and that’s all.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was the night my youngest aunt got married. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her, “You are not married, you have no business to be discussing marriage.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“But Steve’s letter said you were only planning to get married. This man might think it funny that you got a baby so soon.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But only call to say he’s getting married. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Much later she married Zeus, the chief of the Olympian gods. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, she’s gone away to get married,” Holmes said, as if nothing could have interested him less. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Three years later he married a Puerto Rican from the Bronx. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They married and had a daughter before senior year. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Stone, who had had reservations about getting married in the first place, now faced the public humiliation of dealing with an unfaithful husband. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then after they got married again, he would be at work at a bank till really late. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“My American name is Jinjoo Han. Han is my married name. But my Korean name will always be Lee Jinjoo. Because Korean women keep their maiden names.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Over the course of his adult life, Jeff Martinelli has married three women and buried one of them, a cancer victim. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Demigods who could live without fear, get married, raise a family. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then, inspired, she tied around her head one of the red scraps from the cloth in which she was to have married Zororo. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He had a child with a woman who was married to someone else, and then he killed the woman’s husband.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

My mom and dad first met while they were standing in line to pay speeding tickets at the Dade County Courthouse, and they got married six weeks later. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Though he had been married since he was sixteen, he had spent nearly thirty years of his marriage apart from his wife. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the church where I got married. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He married twice and had children, although we were never certain of the number. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were still a family and they were still traditionally married, but she divorced him in order to separate their financial affairs. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If a pilot were ever taken prisoner, his captors could use the knowledge that he was married to torment him by inventing stories about his wife. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some cousin of ours is getting married next month. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not like my parents fell in love—in Zimbabwe, if a woman becomes pregnant, our Shona tradition requires that she get married or else she brings shame on both families. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“We should just get married and get it over with at this point.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be really married but Catherine said that if we were they would send her away and if we merely started on the formalities they would watch her and would break us up. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Katie had married Johnny because she liked the way he sang and danced and dressed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The younger sister married. Stole her sister’s beau, I’ve no doubt.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Must have been a married man,” said King PeDes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a coy, frightened bride who had been married off to a stranger. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You guys are like an old married couple.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

When Joe stopped playing, they talked about what it would be like when they were married and had a home and maybe kids. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I would be if I married your cousin.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You and Loki are going to the land of the giants. We need to get you married off to Thrym before he changes his mind. I want my hammer back.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Reader, you are the king, so let me tell you, when Aziz married Hassan, the two were already in love and one of them was already destined to die. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She’d stopped wearing it when she got married, and hadn’t thought to put it back on after her divorce. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had gone back to China, where he had bought her and married her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you can hear strange plays about Greeks plucking out their eyes because they married their mothers by mistake. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

"I just wish that cute guy hadn't been married." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mam says Mr. Hannon gets the best of food because Mrs. Hannon is as mad about him as she was the day she married him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s almost,” Dad continued thoughtfully, “like you’re triplets. Think of it: you’ll be in college together, get married at around the same time, and maybe your kids will be close in age.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why had he married a woman who was not intelligent only to turn around and tell her that his wife was not intelligent? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“With so many pretty and decent girls around, the only thing that occurs to you is to get married to the daughter of our enemy.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had been married scarcely two months, but she realized at once that things were not going well in the nuptial bed, and she had the delicious pleasure of vengeance fulfilled. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But then he talks about the stuff One-Fifteen did that Khalil will never get to do, like go to college, get married, have a family. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They had gotten married shortly before the tour. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They did not discuss the possibility of getting married. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“What about the other brother—the married one?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Oh no, of course not. I'm living in Cambridge with Nurse Kennedy. Her roommate's just got married, and she needs someone to share the apartment." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I cleared my throat and said as steadily as I could, “People who are not married do not live together.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you need to get married before the end of the month.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure plenty of people assumed that we’d eventually get married even if I never gave it any thought. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She married her former Lykes colleague Mr. Todd, and they have two adorable sons. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He was probably the kind of man who lived with various women but never married. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“You are not ashamed of yourself? If only you would spend your time praying for somebody to come and tell me what happened to Ugwu instead of spying on a married woman taking a bath.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A secondhand car was also the reason my mom got married. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He is married to a woman who speaks mainly to her birds. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s because of her that we got married, at City Hall, for the oldest of reasons. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Father Mike was favorably reviewing the eulogy he’d given earlier that morning, while Aunt Zo was wishing she had married someone like her father. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The tale of the Golden Fleece begins with a Greek king named Athamas, who got tired of his wife, put her away, and married another, the Princess Ino. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re all grown up and getting married—and—and it’s too late now.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know it is not true that we are only lovers. We are married,” I reminded him gently. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I married her when I was feeling vulnerable; I had a lot of upheaval in my life at the time.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

One of the girls at school had gotten married off before Fazlullah’s edict. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She married a man who soon left her; that man became a myth; and then that myth returned home and proved to be just a man after all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is married and has a daughter and grandchildren. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was back at Maer getting new clothes because her aunts told her she had to present herself better once she was married. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, there aren’t. Most of them are married or teenage boys. And if they’re single and old enough they want a young sister who’s beautiful and a virgin. It’s the worst thing.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Soon after Francie was eleven, Sissy married for the third time at City Hall. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle Sammie was also married and had been eager to find Luke and me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She was the goddess married women turned to for help. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had cultivated this deafness for as many years as he had been married to Auntie. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And now my mother is married to a man named Tyrone, who does not have delicate feet and who is supremely unaware that there are stars in the sky. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Dad had brought Mom to Welch for a brief visit fifteen years earlier, right after they were married. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was twenty-five then, the same age at which Zannikos married. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Das must have told Mrs. Devi that I was to be married. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I tell them to think of a girl who is married off at eleven. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She’d thrown her husband out three years after they married, for carousing. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years pass, and the eldest princess comes to be married. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Robert! how do you do? I remember you very well: you used to give me a ride sometimes on Miss Georgiana’s bay pony. And how is Bessie? You are married to Bessie?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Coby’s dad and mom never got divorced because they were never married. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I could have sashayed out the door without so much as a howdy-do, since technically speaking we were only married in the Biblical sense. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a shock to come out here and find myself married. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Enough of their friends’ children had married Americans, had produced pale, dark-haired, half-American grandchildren, and none of it was as terrible as they had feared. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Upon which, the clergyman said again, “WHO giveth this woman to be married to this man?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then he, like his father, married his sister. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was afraid he wouldn’t be well enough to get married, but the train to Shrewsbury “quite cured me.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and that boy came back and soon said they were "in love"—whatever that means before you get married. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no, I was only married to her for a few months,” he said. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘Just for a girl. A clerk down at Woolworth’s is going to get married next week.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But your mother and I knew too many people who’d married and abandoned each other for less. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In the years when women first began campaigning for the ballot, a married woman had no identity separate from her husband. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

No, their married bed would be holy, and their children would continue the line of the faithful, a royal line. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Well, suppose the Lord wanted Miss Love to marry Mr. McAllister, hoping she could save him from his sinning ways, and suppose she had married him, but then he just kept right on chasing women? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I adore any of my brothers the day before they get married,” she said. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You married him. There was something about him that caught your heart. Hang on to that and forget the rest.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am hoping a new way will be found by the time I am old enough to be married. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adele was married on a hilltop, with a view of Kigali stretching out below, a stunning backdrop of red roofs and green hills. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“What was Granny’s name before she married Grandpa?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s a member of the Rotary Club and has been married twice—for many years to a lawyer, and now to a dentist who is on the symphony board. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if he was telling me how to behave at the dance or if he was telling me why he and Cecile never married. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, if people are going to be that way, they should just get married.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I knew he was referring to our getting married. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told Dennis one night, “We have to get married,” but he was hesitant. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if I never get married? What if I don’t want to get married?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

But Tía Mimi used her free time so poorly, she might as well have been married. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Here, for instance, is how you would diagram the sentence In Sophocles’ play, Oedipus married his mother: Oedipus married mother The Reed-Kellogg notation was innovative in its day, but I for one don’t miss it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She told me with pride that her husband had photographed her a hundred and twenty-seven times since they had been married. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Instead of studying, we talk about our fathers: hers lives in Eugene and is married, with a son. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A few months later she married Dusty, and for a short time we seemed like a happy little family. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I loved her, and the way she used to tell me she couldn't wait until I married her brother and became her sister for real. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

On April 8, 2011, Iceland’s highest court held that Miyoko was truly and officially married to Bobby, and was therefore his sole heir. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He married, had two children, and worked as a painter. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had evoked the town idealized by nostalgia with such strong tenacity that Gaston understood that she would not get married unless he took her to live in Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The idea of her getting married and moving to America was a lot easier to digest than that of her moving to Europe as a single girl. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Which meant that I would have to get married in May or early June. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She had been given lots of fine china when she had married, all of it beautiful and some of it antique. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds, if not thousands, of girls have been married this way. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Or imagine if you were married to someone with a switch. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“No,”—he calmly replied,—“there is but one married woman in the world whom I can ever allow to invite what guests she pleases to Donwell, and that one is—” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

And then he asked, maliciously: “She tell you if she married yet?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I mean were they married in the Marriage Court, lobola or what?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’ll only turn it into yet another thing that separates me from the married girls. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It’s the place of his dreams, the place where he was married, where his children were born, where he was given the trust of his neighbors. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

If Dad'd married this Cynthia in the first place, instead of Mum, and if they'd had a son, would it have been me? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

On many legal documents her signature would not be considered valid unless she wrote her name followed by the words “married to Henry Blackwell.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They married after graduation, and when Justice won a fellowship, the couple went to Europe for a year of independent travel and study. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We were acting as husband and wife and having so much fun I didn’t care that we weren’t married. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Shears used to be married to Mrs. Shears and they lived together until two years ago. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Two years after my mother was killed by a dead horse, when I was just beginning to walk again, my father married a pediatric nurse named Tracy Snow. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Diana and Mary Rivers are both married: alternately, once every year, they come to see us, and we go to see them. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She was in college when she met my dad, they got married, and then I was born. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get your older brothers married before we worry about you,” Marina said idly as she spooned more boiled eggs out of the cold water. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“And then he married a woman with a kid. What’s he like?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Yes, she would love Logan after they were married. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

So I said, “There’s just one thing I cain’t figure, ma’am. Why didn’t you get married long time ago? A lady pretty as you, I bet the Lord didn’t have no trouble givin’ you chances. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure I’d want any son of mine getting too good at baking, anyhow. That’s what a man gets married for.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

But this marriage turned out to be particularly important: Frederick’s daughter Sophia married the Elector of Hanover and was the mother of George I of England. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“If I could go back in time, I would never have married him. I was too young. I could’ve done so much better,” she says. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Instead she was sent to sewing classes, so she could become a “true woman” and not suffer when she got married. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hannah’s friendships with women were, of course, seldom and short-lived, and the newly married couples whom her mother took in soon learned what a hazard she was. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“How can this be? How can this be? Our daughter has never left home. She has always been at our side. She has never married, for her betrothed died in battle.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s a tradition for Pakistani girls to have their ears pierced when they’re little. Rabia and I had ours done together, when we were babies. Noses come much later, usually when girls get married.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Her wrist, I notice, is free of the Tribal braid tattoo that would mark her as married. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, I said it: “How come you married my grandpa?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Earlier, the Klavern had been upset by the shocking news that Secretary of State Dean Rusk’s daughter had married a black man. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He married his fiancee, finished his education, and was set up in business in Ilium by his father-in-law. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If that will be your married look, I, as a Christian, will soon give up the notion of consorting with a mere sprite or salamander. But what had you to ask, thing,—out with it?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Hymir is my stepfather. He is married to my mother,” he said. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I went once to see the Captain after he got married. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He meets this one married couple, on one of his journeys, that I love more than anybody I ever read about in my entire life,” Franny said. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Dude, she’s in there making breakfast. You guys are practically married.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She shares a piece of my history I never knew—that Lolo and Lola didn’t want her and Dad to get married. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The Grants have been married for more than twenty years and have endured many long separations due to military life. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Their books have merged since they’ve gotten married, Nikhil has unpacked them all, and nothing is where she expects it to be. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I was busy applying for colleges, you may have been weighing the pros and cons of going to university versus getting married right away. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to say a word about her to him or Mother until after we’re married.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

‘May come in useful, if you think of getting married, Sam.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Killed Oedipus married Laius Jocasta, for example, doesn’t make it clear whether Oedipus killed Laius and married Jocasta, Jocasta killed Oedipus and married Laius, Oedipus killed Jocasta and married Laius, and so on. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Soon after that Nanny got married and went off to her own house with her husband. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you angry at me for getting married?” she wondered. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, when girls became teenagers in my community, they were often married off. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She’s always kept tabs on all the colored help and their situations—where they live, if they’re married, how many children they have. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Granny used to say she never did see why Mr. Blakeslee married her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She did not want to be married, but for the time being it was a refuge. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would turn fifteen in two months, at which time her father had decided she should be married. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then she said, “I have an aunt named Veronica. When she married this rich guy from Miami, she changed her name to Vera.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

But people get married for all kinds of reasons, so she still wanted him. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They had then been married for three years. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He was lonely and wanted to get married, which made him weak, says Mikey, and got him killed in the end. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He had been rewarded for marrying a girl nobody in his right mind would have married. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Call,” I would say, watching dawn break crimson over the Chesapeake Bay, “I hope I have a sky like this the day I get married.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Great. Okay, so the Dutch Tulip Man. Is he a con man? Do he and Anna’s mom get married?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He married a young woman called Giulia in 1562, and Galileo was the eldest of seven children, three of whom seem to have died in infancy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She tells herself he could very well be married, as she is. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

No, she did not want to get married, not right away, but she couldn't say it, she couldn't tell him—them, not like that. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped using her married name and removed the fine gold wedding ring that he had placed on her finger twenty years before, on that memorable night when Barrabas was assassinated with a butcher’s knife. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Beatrice broke in with her loud, impatient voice, “Gran, darling, you know perfectly well she lives there now. She and Maxim are married.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

People always ask me if I will ever get married again. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if I married Raji, would I have to give up my friends? Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I am only nineteen. I am too young to get married.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Why do they play that silly pipe when people get married?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The truth was, they were both still trying to find their feet as adults and feeling a little in over their heads as a married couple. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh no! I have a husband of my own, to whom I was married before I ever saw Dr. Seward, or he me. I am Mrs. Harker.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

From there he preached Socialism and mulled over his disgust at Blanca’s having married someone else, refusing to accept Jaime’s explanations and consolation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a sick, reactionary villain in the script, an Irish landlord who refuses to rent to the couple, who by this time have been married in this subdued Ethical Culture ceremony. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved there a few years ago, after he got married. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They met in veterinary school at Kansas State University and had gotten engaged a few weeks later, and they were married when Nancy was twenty. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he got home from work and heard I’d been there introducing a Muslim sister, he knew I was either married, or on the way to get married. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opens wider, and there stands my mother, holding a tray with a china tea set she brought to the Seam when she married. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

"How long have you been married, George? Come on there, try and sit still a minute and answer my question. How long have you been married?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“There’s a chapel in the basement of the cell house. If she doesn’t get in, then maybe she and 105 can get married. He’s getting out soon.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, and now her daddy had married Miss Love—maybe partly to spite Cold Sassy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They intended to get married at their earliest convenience. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

That would require ridding her of her present lord and master, to be sure... not to mention the uncle who had married her to him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was wearing an old flannel nightgown that I hadn’t worn since Kevin and I were married and that I’d never worn in June. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was sixteen when she announced she was getting married. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He met my mother on the boat over, got married later and, when he thought they could afford it, had me. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, no, I'm not going to get married. And I—I'm not really Jewish enough to do that kind of thing anyway. I mean, I'm not religious." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"Oh! I come back to get married. I was going to go back but my wife she don't like to travel. Where you from?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It came down below her waist, when she was first married. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was so much compromising you had to do if you were married. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end she’d felt grateful for his help, that was true, for the help of all married men. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It surprised her how quickly, during reunions with old friends, the subject of marriage came up, a waspish tone in the voices of the unmarried, a smugness in those of the married. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Alexandra had been married for thirty-three years; if it had made any impression on her one way or another, she never showed it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

‘Well you see sir, I’m a married man,” said the Cabby. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

How long ago, an angel who kept the herd of cows in the sky married an earth girl, the Spinning Maid, and took her to live with him in Heaven. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only, he's married, the cop, so be can't marry her or anything. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“She’s married to her job. She hasn’t been able to take a vacation in years.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When they got married, and when Robin and I were born. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As the years passed, due to the carelessness of some of the Whitcomb brothers, it became difficult to maintain their whiteness, and some distant and some not so distant relatives married each other. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high school girls were mostly gone or married. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom was overcome by the news; his brother—who was married and had three children under the age of eight—had seemed invulnerable to Tom. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I says no thank you I have all the women I can take care of now if I married a wife she’d probably turn out to be a hophead or something. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then everyone thought I was insane to get involved with a married man, let alone a married man whose wife was highly unstable, and I’ve proved them wrong on that one. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had lived in that cottage all their married life and had always been happy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rich Cuban family Vera had married into still kept the pink slips of their nationalized lands in Cuba, along with high hopes of reclaiming them once Castro was ousted or finally, finally died. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He thought of the merchant’s daughter, and was sure that she had probably married. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he grew old, he began to wonder which should inherit the kingdom, since none had married and he had no heir. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Alexandra had been and was still technically married to a large placid man named James Hancock, who ran a cotton warehouse with great exactitude for six days a week and fished on the seventh. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She had believed that men never married their mistresses—that they cast them aside like worn-out gloves. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She became a Hare Krishna or one of those wild religions and later she got married again, this time to a white man. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never missed home or my family after I got married. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mama and I have been married seven years already.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s zoom in on one of the words, married. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mean like that. 1 mean something else. Have you any married friends?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She and Martin had been married for thirty-five years. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It turns out I’m the one getting married, but I haven’t a clue who the groom is. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is what I wanted, what I worked for, this is why I married Hizdahr. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“If it hadn’t been for you, Nat, I wouldn’t have married David.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been married for twenty years and had a grown-up son who was going to Oxford. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mama was only a girl when she married. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was on track to become a doctor and then she married my dad instead, and that wound up not being what she wanted. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Even though they’d lived together for fourteen years, they weren’t married, but it hadn’t been an issue in our lives until Mami returned from New York. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The woman my father married, she hates me, too. She hates Poles.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Megan and Scott have been married for three years; they have been living in the house on Blenheim Road since January 2012. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is the age when most Dinka girls from the countryside get married. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But right then, it didn’t matter as much because a nice joint was coming my way and since the day I had married Blanca, I hadn’t had a good smoke. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“To get out of that country, Des, I would have married a cripple.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Though married, Ogorodnik also carried on a secret love affair with a Colombian woman—who was pregnant with his child. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband saved up his horseshoeing money and bought her freedom right after they were married. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was startling to both of them when Dessie said one evening on the hill, “Tom, why don’t you get married?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Daisy invited him; she knew him before we were married--God knows where!" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I almost asked if him and Miss Love were back yet from getting married, but there wasn’t any use giving Mama another headache. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Richard said that he hated the South, and this was perhaps the reason it did not occur to either of them to begin their married life there. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And the most important occasion of that eventful year was getting married to Dawn, the most remarkable woman I know and the best friend I have. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He’d once been married to an Osage woman, and was close to Rose and other suspects. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If they weren't going to get married—if it wasn't forever—it was only a matter of time. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He lived on the plantation because he was married to Auntie Evelyn and relations between Negroes and whites were frowned upon. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Some fathers don’t even think of their daughters as valued members of their families, because they’ll be married off at a young age to live with their husband’s family. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was married to a woman I loved fiercely—and who loved me back. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was married to a British woman, lived in a British home, worked at a British job, traveled on a British passport, said “exercise” to refer to a mental rather than a physical activity. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He and his wife lived over on Riverside Drive; he was headed home now; they’d been married for nine years; they’d met as high school sweethearts; they didn’t have any children. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"YOU?! What do you know about women's rights? You just said you were married off at age eighteen!" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He drove to the county seat and was married to her by a justice of the peace. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

How the Queen forbid it, but she married him anyway. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I explained to her that it didn’t really matter and that if she wanted to, we could get married. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

First of all, I knew he was an unusual man when I married him, but I had no idea he had once been the physician to the Dragon King himself. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until then, I had never known of anyone who married outside his tribe. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hope you are well At one point he gets married, which is announced by a postcard from San Francisco, with the Golden Gate Bridge and a sunset on it, and Got married. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Baba told me stories of his travels to India and Russia, the people he had met, like the armless, legless couple in Bombay who’d been married forty-seven years and raised eleven children. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that my mom had been married five times. Five times!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Look to me like you been married long enough to’ve saved something!” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Grandma had raised four daughters and four sons, and she was a true matriarch: Her husband had died after my mom got married, and she cared for the family on her own. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They met and married in Sophiatown, but one year later the army came in and drove them out. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We married in 1982 and had two children—first a boy and then a girl. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Official stepfather. That house is his house. Don't you know anything, Taylor? Mum and I live there now. Got married last year.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But I remember feeling uneasy when that priest was later excommunicated for having been secretly married. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were married for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, till death should them part. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man whom she had married six months before was a thin, older Fleming with the look of a sailor about him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Barack had experienced marriage as ephemeral: His mother had married twice, divorced twice, and in each instance managed to move on with her life, career, and young children intact. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“More than one...a lot of them. The occasional married man too.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sally was married and Max was drowned and his father was at home watching baseball on national TV. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother married Henry when I was little, but I never really knew him. We went back to live with my grandparents when she died.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I warned you, daughter. This scoundrel Hades is no good. You could’ve married the god of doctors or the god of lawyers, but noooo. You had to eat the pomegranate.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There had been one client, a young woman married to a doctor. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In later years, I would tease her about this early allegiance, telling her that had she not met me, she would have married a leader of the NEUM. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not need to tell me she married Wu Tsing to exchange one unhappiness for another. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy had promised to marry her but kept delaying until he finally married a woman named Alberta, who was another small tight woman from the South. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw you marry me. I’m so glad you married me.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Eva could have been married, not once but three different times even though, as Hannah’s mother had pointed out, she was no great beauty. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, your grandfather and I were married. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sally got married like we knew she would, young and not ready but married just the same. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might be nice to be pure and then to marry a pure man, but what if he suddenly confessed he wasn't pure after we were married, the way Buddy Willard had? The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

No, she was tired of being a minor lady, waiting to be married off to the highest bidder, tired of petty politics and easily manipulated fools. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In my culture back home, you don’t really move out until you’re married. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

So we thought it would be a good idea for her to be married to him, and since she was flattered by the notion, we’ve decided to call her Mrs. Beaverbrook from now on. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Dear, wretched Frank, who had not understood, who had always thought we were the normal happy married couple we pretended to be. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In Elizebeth’s social circles, most married women did stay at home. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She met a marshmallow salesman at a school bazaar, and she married him in another state where it’s legal to get married before eighth grade. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She met and married a man named Agha. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“That was my mother’s name. Before she married my father.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The next-eldest of the children, Boo Boo, was married and the mother of three children. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Why don’t you two get married and get it over with, Ashton said. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I had friends from Sidley, friends from high school, friends developed through professional networking, and friends I’d met through Craig, who was newly married and making his living as an investment banker in town. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Besides that, Pompey had been married to Caesar’s daughter. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was ten o’clock at night before we ventured to creep in again, and then she asked Joe why he hadn’t married a Negress Slave at once? Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

But I can prove that I have been baptized or married: these are documented facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her inheritance wouldn’t be worth much, whether or not the earl married. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Naw, I was hired girl to her before I was married,” Grandma said. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We lived once again in married student housing, a plywood apartment complex set among pine trees, and the singular topic of conversation among our young neighbors was the inadequacy of these rattletrap tenements. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Does Father know that you've married his shipwright?" he asked his sister. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The pope came to the village and called her Alyce and the king married the midwife and the cat laughed. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the War, Cudn Vanna married three more husbands and lived to bury them all, even the one that was forty years younger than she was. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When her sister got married, Theresa heard about it in a long, poetic letter, beautifully written. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my village, Kinjari's family would know my family and maybe arrange for us to be married. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

"She has married our third son," the oldest woman says. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But surely I’m not old enough to get married,” Violet said. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

When Pirithoüs, who was King of the Lapithae, married, Theseus was, of course, one of the guests, and was exceedingly useful there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Branwell likes his own name because it was his mother’s before she got married. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fell in love, married, and moved into the old sawmill boardinghouse that became Snowberger’s Funeral Home. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And my sister had married one of those crazy Indians. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I do so wonder, Miss Woodhouse, that you should not be married, or going to be married! so charming as you are!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

In time, his daughter Barbara married another optometrist, and Billy set him up in business. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's never married and is always getting ragged about being homosexual. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“She was supposed to get married to somebody else a long time ago,” said May. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: And without Krum, Ron never got jealous and that jealousy was all-important and so Ron and Hermione stayed very good friends but never fell in love — never got married — never had Rose. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

But she on her side must remember that he had not married her and was free to leave her whenever he chose. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it was, he did go to war, and when he returned, his childhood sweetheart had married someone else. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they married secretly, and he planned to tell them afterward, but before he did, before my mother even knew she was having me, a terrible thing happened. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When my brother accused Auntie of frightening our mother away, Auntie shouted that our mother had married a man named Wu Tsing who already had a wife, two concubines, and other bad children. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some fifteen years later—after I had grown up, gotten married, graduated from Fisk University, and had two daughters of my own—my family and I moved back to Birmingham to live. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“About my cousin Arize. She hasn’t even been married a year and she is desperate to get pregnant.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I did not understand until six months later when I was married to this man and he hissed drunkenly to me that he was ready to kai gaua. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One sister Bobo married, and me his father is all that is living of Perry. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure she carries her parents’ credit card—her parents, who are married and forty-five and not dating random dudes with plural names. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Married to a cudgel, married to a pestle, Be faithful to it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his land was flourishing, he went back home and married a young woman named Susan. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I think he must have been many years older than she, but if not, he had the sluggish inferiority of old men married to younger women. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I said, “Or money. Or protection. Or just to talk to somebody,” which is what I thought at the time, because my mom married Ray. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Catherine leaned close to me and whispered in my ear: "Neither of them can stand the person they're married to." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She married a man with a slash in his face instead of a mouth. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archimedes was married, and brought up several handsome families of quilly youngsters in the tower room. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We—Narcissa and I—have never set eyes on our sister since she married the Mudblood. This brat has nothing to do with either of us, nor any beast she marries.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The psychologist said he’d seen many children with autism over the years, and none of them had ever married. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She called Mom from St. Ignatius, Montana, on the Flathead Indian Beservation, and said, “Hey, Mom, I’m a married woman now. I want to have ten babies and live here forever and ever.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Loomis was not married; at least I do not think he was, though he had never said anything about it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And maybe, I thought, he married you to prove the same thing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, our son lives here. He is married and we are to stay with him. His name is Murugan,” we said eagerly. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also forgot my granddad on my mom’s side, but he’s less important because I think he’s a killer who married a child bride. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Only reason Loma married Camp, she was mad cause Pa wouldn’t let her go off with those actors. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The newly married couple picked up an inexpensive painting at a yard sale—a blue-eyed, blond princess standing next to a dark, bearded prince—and hung it in their living room. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I do not know where Samuel met her, how he wooed her, married. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She explained that she didn’t want to use any of that money for herself until after she had married the giver. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was to be married soon, and she preferred peeking at Besa, who stood behind his waist-high drum on the other side of the fire, watching her as well. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

David Preston married his wife with the kind of gusto and enthusiasm and seriousness with which he attacks everything in life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl with the long dreads lived in a house with a man, a Howard professor, who was married to a white woman. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He has been married for fifty years, and has children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He is a tall, somewhat skinny young fellow, married and has a child—a gentleman in every way. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got a house of her own or worked successfully at blackmail or married a rich man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eight people in the house—ten with the host and hostess—and only one married couple to do for them. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

A young man married a woman whose brother was blind. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to be married soon,” she said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otto knew he would never recover from his love for her and married Felicia the next morning. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father’s parents died when he was young; her mother’s parents never married, and she never met her grandfather. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Bill and I are going to be married!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She was married to a council member, but I don’t see him here. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

‘Listen here. If you think we ought to we can get married—secretly or any other way.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Although their marriage was predicted from the time they had come into the world, when they expressed their desire to be married their own relatives tried to stop it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She married for position, and my mother’s position, I later learned, was the worst. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then when we got married, we had all we could do trying to keep up with planting and keeping house and then you came along. Wasn’t no time for books.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He married and has two children, but watching television footage of the Gulf War in 1990 threw him into a deep depression. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her daughters had long ago married and moved away and died. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"My great-grandfather married a Swedish girl, you know? So the family has light-colored blood, and that Sandi got it all. But imagine, spirit of contradiction, she wanted to be darker complected like her sisters." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Janie and Logan got married in Nanny’s parlor of a Saturday evening with three cakes and big platters of fried rabbit and chicken. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

"You're such a droll little fellow. Tell me, have you married this one yet?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They suddenly decided to get married and there it was. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then he called a full assembly of the gods, and announced to all, including Venus, that Cupid and Psyche were formally married, and that he proposed to bestow immortality upon the bride. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody said he went out West and married one a-them Mexican women, but we never knowed if it was so or not.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“She can get married if she has the permission of her legal guardian, acting in loco parentis,” Klaus said. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“When I married her I was told I was the luckiest man in the world,” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s a new kind of damage: My dad came to Dubai just a few days later and they told us they were getting a divorce and my dad was already married again. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Let’s fix them up on a blind date! Can you imagine? Miss Butt, meet Mr. Tushman. Mr. Tushman, here’s Miss Butt. They could get married and have a bunch of little Tushies.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Bernard Silverman at Michigan State University obtained the records of 3,000 married couples in Michigan and found no correlation between their signs and astrologers’ predictions about compatible pairs of signs. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t make it very easy. But let’s say she went away and we have to find her—see?—like a kid’s game. You’re making it that way. How long have you been married?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They will end up getting married and having five kids. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What has love to do with marriage? A prince should know better. Your father married for love, it’s said. How much joy has he had of that?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It struck me for the first time how odd it was that none of them were married. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A divorce means, well, that your mom and dad aren’t going to be married anymore. But...you’ll still be a family. Just different.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt married to her, that was all. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

How could he do that if he got married? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after, when he’d gone home, Johnnie Mae made tea for him and offered it as he sat wearily in the faded, overstuffed chair they had somehow inherited from his married sister. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was born on the nineteenth of August and Billy Campbell told me the father and mother have to be married nine months before there’s a sign of a child. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now that they were married, they needed a bigger, nicer place than what they currently occupied in the castle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“It was the first time a married couple had been executed. Also something about the first time American citizens were executed for spying in peacetime. It was very controversial.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe she wanted to get married before grad school. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"The story was short and sweet: He wrote to her every day. Then she went to see him last Christmas, then he proposed, and they married this spring, and here they are, parents!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, Grandpa hadn’t hardly passed the time of day with Loma since they quarreled about her being an actress, and things got even worse between them after she disobeyed him and married Uncle Camp. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Noah, I used to live with the man. We were engaged to be married, for God’s sake,” she said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When I was first married, she used to drop by unannounced, until one day I suggested she should call ahead of time. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could have gone back, taken more courses, but he was married by then, a father—oh, who's he kidding. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Meng does have a girlfriend, and they are to be married when he returns from France with his degree. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a whisper—not even a rumor but rather an unsaid feeling—in my family that it was love drove him out, and not love of the wife he married. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What difference would it make? They should just get married and shut everybody up.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is married and has children and grandchildren. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“She's getting married on Saturday!” cried one of the women, clutching the bride. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I had already asked him where people could get married without a whole lot of mess and waiting. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being a fellow who knew a good thing when he saw one, he proposed to her within a week and married her soon after that. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I understand that you are to be married soon. Permit me to tender my congratulations." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when a high school teacher asked students to list their goals for the next decade, she wrote, “having a college degree” and “not being married.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A married man, if he spoke publicly about love, usually did so with playfid, mischievous irony. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was a lion,” he says, “and I married and now I sit by the phone and beg to speak to my children. Do you see?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They were married to each other and to history. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

At first, Susan B. Anthony focused her campaign on two issues: a married woman’s right to keep her own wages and a mother’s right to share equal guardianship of her children. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She was a Cheyenne woman who was married to a Lakota man. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house--just as if it were five years ago. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I only seek some wisdom for when I shall be married,” I said, affecting carelessness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The fact that in some realities we aren’t even, you know, married. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“Please. All I’m asking is that you give me a little space. If Kareem and I decide to get married, I promise you’ll be the first to know.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He stopped smoking after he and my mom got married. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He bounced from job to job and in 1995, eager to show off his newfound success, went back to Mexico with his pockets full of money, and married. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And yet that was the case in the tale of Draupadi, the virtuous and beautiful princess who married all five Pandava brothers. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If he got married at eighteen he’d be ruining all that. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Hannah tells us about her grandfather, too, who lives in Miami and is married to someone very young. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He said half the married guys in the world were flits and didn't even know it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Strange to say, when it came I felt as if I’d been waiting for it my whole married life. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that year, after Betty and I were married, I exhausted myself trying to be everywhere at once, trying to help the Nation to keep growing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not when we married, carefree, drenched in bliss, on an oddly wintry May day seven years ago. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was glad her parents had been married, but shamed that Mother hadn’t been welcomed by the Jongwes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he continued, with just that sort of relentless bantering she seemed to attract from men who were married; until finally, happily, it did begin to seem almost all right, what had happened. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was married to the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, who happened to be giving a concert in Los Angeles that Sunday afternoon. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had learned that from my cousin Melvin, who swore it had worked for him when his brother ran off and got married and left him with the bedroom all to himself. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Monogamy means “being married to only one person at a time.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean, ‘’e was going to be married?”’ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The grateful citizens made him their King and he married the dead King’s wife, Jocasta. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to wait until we got married to have kids. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After they are married, Khouy and Laine go to live at a labor camp where they have been assigned to work. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Mr. Nielsen have been married for eighteen years, since she was twenty-five and he was in his early thirties. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

People had raised their eyebrows when Ali, a man who had mem­orized the Koran, married Sanaubar, a woman nineteen years younger, a beautiful but notoriously unscrupulous woman who lived up to her dishonorable reputation. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In their city of New Rome, veterans of the legion could settle down safely, go to college, get married, even have kids. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Before his twenty-first birthday Hickock had worked as a railway trackman, an ambulance driver, a car painter, and a garage mechanic; he’d also married a girl sixteen years old. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is married too long to that pale, skinny woman. Lose all his blackness.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How are you going to get married?” he shouted. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a married Spanish lawyer from Granada and said that he wanted to document the murders in Spain through a peephole in his overcoat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither married nor promised—what time had there been for promises? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Olive had married her young man, and Mollie was married and living, believe it or not, in an apartment in San Francisco. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I got to get used to my mama getting married, Squeezie,” Peaches said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That the new queen was in fact a witch, that his grandfather had suspected it to be true when he married her, but that he had overlooked it because of her beauty. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

"Every month, if you are married, you go to the bath after you finish your cycle. I used to run a mikvah back in France. Are you married—what is your name?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The folk in Auburn said Harriet had married him in order to take care of him, that even though he was a big, handsome, young man, he had tuberculosis. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the summer before my senior year, Roberto and Darlene got married with her mother’s approval but against her stepfather’s wishes. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They must have married her cousin off the minute her hair grew back. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, not long after Terryl and Alan were married, he came home hurting after one of those long, rough days roofing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

If Aunt Carrie wasn’t there, Granny would tell how Carrie’s husband, Mr. Horace, went to the War right after they married and never was heard from again. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The boy she married was a Hasid, with a black beard, long earlocks, and dark eyes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it would be lovely if they got married!” whispered Lily ecstatically. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield,” said Mrs. Bennet to her husband, “and all the others equally well married, I shall have nothing to wish for.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Even though he had married young and had three children with his wife, Minnie, it was well known that he was romantically involved with other women. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“When you meet someone and fall in love and decide to get married. In India, it’s called a love marriage.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The oldest, a child psychologist, had married the analyst she'd been seeing when her first marriage broke up, something of the sort. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“As often as I can. But you know married women have never much time for writing. My sisters may write to me. They will have nothing else to do.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I hadn't even met her husband yet, and they're married seventeen years. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

These trips began soon after we married, but they became longer after the baby was put in my womb. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet she is a perfectly intelligent woman, was an honors student in philology at Presidency College before she was married off at twenty-two. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She remembers a hot and humid afternoon early in the year she got married. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He got married and then there were none." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Over the years, wordsmiths from Noah Webster to Jacques Barzun have suggested that maybe we should ditch Choose one: The girl that married dear old Dad or The girl who married dear old Dad. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we were sent home, and I married a pretty girl who was covered with baby fat, too. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I got married, my husband and I moved back to Newark. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He began telling her the story of his married life, but curiously enough she appeared to know the essential parts of it already. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She was easily the most beloved person in the kingdom, and had been married to the King long before he began mumbling. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“As soon as I got together with Patricia, got engaged and married, what I had to lose grew very much worse,” he later said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You promised, Percival. You promised when we married that I could keep my bodyguard.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see. I thought, perhaps, you might be going to be married.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old friend had got a girl with a lisp pregnant, had married her and was jolly happy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I have a brother in Chicago. We’ll get married and stay with him until I can get a job and Claudia can get her papers so she can look for work also.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

"I mean . . . God, of course there will. It's not like we're going to get married, Park." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Anulika will be getting married soon, mah. My father said I should let you and Master know. They do not have a date yet, but they will be very happy if you come.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My wife collects pigs. I got her started on it when I gave her one to remind her of me—before we got married.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“My mom married a really awful guy,” I told her. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

When John got out his books that night, Meg’s heart sank, and for the first time in her married life, she was afraid of her husband. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then a married couple of Baptists in tortoiseshell sunglasses came out of the crowd and shook our hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are too many years between us. You ought to have waited, and then married a boy of your own age. Not someone like myself, with half his life behind him.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It had been heavy once, when we were newly married: now the faded rag in which it was tied was too big and the ends flapped loosely over the knot. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Samsa married couple sat upright in their marriage bed and had to get over their fright at the cleaning woman before they managed to grasp her message. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know . . . but my girl at Metro would want to know how this happened . . . and she don’t know I’m .. . married.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Popper had not played the piano since she had married Mr. Popper, but with a little practice she soon began to remember some of the pieces she had forgotten. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The educated and affluent are more likely than others to have their children while married. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was getting nowhere with her, with this woman whom he had known for only four months and whom he had married, this woman with whom he now shared his life. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Or else they are vague about their wants, which means they intend to get married before any of these other things becomes necessary. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime he had gotten married, and right after his first child, Adrian, was born, he decided to go to college fulltime to get a degree. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she wondered if it was her horror of being married to someone she didn’t love that had caused her, subconsciously, to shut herself off. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That meant that my dad was married to someone before he married my mom. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“The girl married a blacksmith from the village, but it was said the child’s father was her confessor, a monk.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In 1949, she married Father Mike and soon they went off to live in Greece. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"What I say is, why go on living with them if they can't stand them? If I was them I'd get a divorce and get married to each other right away." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

You've shared something, given something away and received something in return, whether or not you're married, whether or not you have a baby. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The knee hole had boxes of toys that the married children’s children played with now. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother and sister also married and had families of their own in Israel. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m too young to get married,” she said. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Would he have married her if he had known this would happen? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he already had a wife in Rome, Mark Antony married Cleopatra in an Egyptian ceremony that overlooked his marriage to Octavia. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

They were happily married for twenty-five years before she passed away. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I mean, didn’t you think for a while at least that they really were married? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“If I ever do get married,” Tariq said, “they’ll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Let the boy be married! Why should he wait for death, wanting to be married?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The girl that married dear old Dad was Mom. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ponytail Girl says her family pattern is Chantilly, but she’ll be picking out her own new pattern when she gets married. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

All those pretty things I’d made—monogrammed towels, a tablecloth and matching napkins—it just didn’t seem right to be getting married without them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m really glad she decided not to get married at Scatterpin! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“I met her. She was just a little schoolgirl, but very, very beautiful. Proud should have been ashamed of himself. Did you know she was pregnant before they got married?” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had I not married a preacher named Nathan Price, my particular children would never have seen the light of this world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I married Soraya, the flowers and Johnny Carson took a backseat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought she was married to somebody,” I said. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

So the dance of a married couple had begun. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She married a Puerto Rican somewhere in New York. Since she could pass, she disowned her blackness —converted to Puerto Rican because she didn’t want to be black no more.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She said, “Oh, hello, Brother Minister—” I just said it to her direct: “Look, do you want to get married?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say things like Jack and myself were married yesterday. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old married couple in their nineties contact a divorce lawyer, who pleads with them to stay together. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says they’re going to get married after they both finish college, and he finishes law school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Frankly,” Ashe scraped his chair closer and lowered his voice into a confidential whisper, “the house isn’t to be only for myself. I’m getting married!” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I mean, that cute little girl in the ruffled dress had already grown up, gotten married, lived her life, and was underground somewhere. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

And suppose he were married and his wife refused him for fifteen years. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Why are all these women married? And anyway you're not meant to teach poetry when you're teaching spelling. Cut it out in future, Miss Honey." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The letter was from Dorothea, and it was very cheery and chatty—and it said that Dorothea and Nick had gotten married. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she started dating her last girlfriend, she brought up getting married within a week. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They wanted me to grow up and fall in love and maybe get married and have children, like my friends would. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before I fell in love with him and after a few months we started thinking of getting married. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her sister had married the ideal in masculine beauty, the thin scholar with the hollow cheeks and the long fingers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their time apart had just caught up to the time they had been married—twenty-one years. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ruby James was thinking about how handsome John 2X had looked that morning, and wondered if they would get married someday. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone married, but eighteen years later he went insane and murdered her, using a gun and knife, the same type of weapons Booth carried the night he killed Abraham Lincoln. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody can reason with Mom—not even Dad, when they were married. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

To him the terms of his parents’ marriage are something at once unthinkable and unremarkable; nearly all their friends and relatives had been married in the same way. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One was a wedding present to Ma Charles when she married Henry Charles, and the other she inherited when my great-great-grandmother Livonia passed away. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Since they had married, it was a point of honor between them that Lillian serve grits and Bull refuse to eat them. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She said so the other day. That she should get married, I mean.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Sigmund married, fathered two daughters, and eventually owned a small grocery store until his retirement. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you saying? We are not to be at war. I will let you have your little factory when we are married. But first, the weapons.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Last summer, just before my grandfather married Margaret, my mother and father got divorced, and Mother moved the two of us to upstate New York where she had grown up. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

A year after they married, a former classmate contacted Enoch about a job at Perkins High School in Lambert, South Carolina. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He got married a couple of weeks ago. Wife lives over in the boss’s house. Seems like Curley is cockier’n ever since he got married.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought confusedly, finally captive in a trap of nostalgia, that perhaps if he had married her he would have been a man without war and without glory, a nameless artisan, a happy animal. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I had recently had a visit from Winnie and I learned that 8115 Orlando West, the house in which we had been married and which I considered home, had been burned down by arsonists. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, he wonders how he’s arrived at all this: that he is thirty-two years old, and already married and divorced. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Frightened jockeys take what Luther called “the married man’s route,” timidly detouring around the outside of the pack. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He married a woman named Lyra, and his love for her was a passion fiercer than fury. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I married the mystery, Professor,” he answers like always, but it used to sound like a compliment. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I knew how my life would play out: when I was eighteen or nineteen, I would get married. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She did not speak again until nine years later, when she opened her mouth to announce that she was planning to be married. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He graduated from medical school, got married and had two children, settled comfortably into a lucrative Dallas practice. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“May said June almost got married one time.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were couples getting married and people registering cars. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You said it was not likely they should think of being married,” said I, “but you see Mr. Rochester evidently prefers her to any of the other ladies.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He would be married no later than half past five or know the reason why. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

"It's crazy, that's what it is," the mother said angrily: "Anyhow, this diet took over. When her sister got married, Sandi wouldn't even taste the wedding cake, taste!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mamani had gotten married at fifteen, became a widow at fifty-three, and spent the rest of her life on her own in an apartment in Mashhad, a city on the far eastern side of Iran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“All those years she was sending you correspondence . . . the reason you never wanted her to stay there . . . the reason you told her you couldn’t read her updates anymore, after she married my father...” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Being alive and God and if me and Flaca were maybe even meant to be and would get married someday and I’d introduce her to my moms. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And seven and a half months later, they got married at Los Angeles’s Mormon temple, like Terryl had dreamed about as a little girl. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It all became official when my mother and father married in a small ceremony in Washington, D.C. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She said, “Caroline says Charles could span her waist with his hands, when they were married.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s sure there won’t be this kind of turnout in front of the White House when he or June get married one day, nor would he even want it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The last thing I heard was she was getting married to some guy in Georgia,” I said, confused. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

My half-sisters were all dreaming of being married to worthless young boys from families not as good as ours. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could hang out, date for a couple of years through college and maybe grad school, and then get married. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

That Ray married my mom a third time—or that she married him because, according to my sister, she thinks I need a dad so badly. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I know one thing. I’m not going to be married in this splendid matronly state.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They asked her if it was true that she had decided to get married, and she answered, whimpering, that she only wanted them to let her sleep. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When we married, I would try to imagine that he was almost as young as his teeth. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In late October, when the leaves were a riot of red and gold, they were married. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I discovered that a man may not enter a house where a woman has recently given birth, and that a newly married woman would not enter the kraal of her new home without elaborate ceremony. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to budge until she married him. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The celebration of my father’s life took place at the Fourteenth Street Baptist Church, the same church my parents had been married in six years earlier. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He remembered her dark face in the rearview mirror just after he’d married Estella and moved them to Houston, a face as long as the braid down her back. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had decided to forget the man she had married and act as if he had never existed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do you think the Church doesn’t let brothers and sisters get married? Even first cousins have to get permission from a bishop.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“As handsome as I am, I got all kinds of pressure on me to get married. ” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am already married” she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an old, distinctive scar. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe because he was married to my mom, who was so smart and strong. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She was married to a Japanese man, and they had adopted a little Japanese girl I sometimes played with. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the pearl he saw Juana and Coyotito and himself standing and kneeling at the high altar, and they were being married now that they could pay. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All Marcus said he remembered is her name, what she looked like, the fact that she lived in Brookline, and she mentioned students at one point. Oh, and she was married, with no kids.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

When she met and married my grandfather—a good-natured young man just out of the navy—she dedicated herself to constructing the perfect family, or at least the appearance of it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When the Depression started, he was newly married and had just bought his big car, moved to Queens, and made his great gamble on the writing-paper business. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She’d say things like “What if a dog and a bird got married, Jackson?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“But I’m married and that’s the hell of the Catholic religion. No divorce.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1922, Morrison had divorced his Osage wife, and after Stepson’s death he married Stepson’s widow, Tillie, making himself the guardian of her two children. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If you are smart, hardworking, well educated, well paid, and married to someone equally fortunate, then your children are more likely to succeed. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They fell in love, and before she headed off to West Virginia, they got married, telling no one. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He said, ‘You were carrying his baby. Admit it. Why else would you have married a man like me?’ Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“But you told your mother that you were going to get married.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She had come to town very shortly after he and Deborah were married, and she took a job as serving-girl with the same white family for which he worked. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I was to play Christina, a young married woman confronting her mother-in-law. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“When you and Lina got married, I didn’t even know I was coming to America. Please slow down.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Dad married when he was twenty-one, had his first son, my brother Tony, at twenty-two. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But as Caroline’s wedding approaches—she is to be married April 30, 1873—Vincent is more and more swamped by his sadness. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“What’s the use of saying all that? And how can you be married to him?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, dear,” thought Meg, “married life is very trying, and does need infinite patience as well as love, as Mother says.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He married a Seattle woman of Illini stock, corn blond, svelte, and somber eyed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I married Isaac last year...just before Mama died.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My three sisters were married long before I was. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time I had spoken to them was when Dr. Z and Tina got married in the university chapel over Labor Day weekend last year. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could wish that she would stay and go to a college close to home, that we could share our room until one of us got married. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Quirin is married, and his wife and child live in Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Back then, everyone talked about him not being married. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Recently married, his new uncle was a schoolteacher. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Weylin had married a poor, uneducated, nervous, startlingly pretty young woman who was determined to be the kind of person she thought of as a lady. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

From what I can gather, he worked in her office, was married, and had children, but I probably still have dozens and dozens of emails to get through. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There were only two other passengers—a man and a woman who seemed to be married, though they hardly spoke to each other. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They just got married so she could stay there and keep house.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The best thing Grandpa did for her when they got married was buy her an electric washing machine, but whatever joy it had once given her was long gone. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The book talked all about their families and how they got married and what they did when they died. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m in high school, Mom. In the twenty-first century. I don’t have to get married by the time I’m twenty-two or risk becoming an old maid.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

They had known each other not quite four months when they married. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the light faded two youths appeared bearing a palanquin for the newly married couple, lowered it at the entrance to the hut for them to step into. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I promise you I’m not getting married and that I’ll be back tomorrow night,” she would say to Alba when she said goodbye. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother and Esi, a recently married friend, sat on the ground, spinning cotton threads for yarn. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A lot of my friends have boyfriends that they have known since high school, and they are engaged or already married, and I’m still single and I’m like—ahhhh.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Do you know anyone who wants to get married?” she finally asked. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Her mother had been ostracized because she had married a Native American. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Liyana said, “I think he’s married to one of our aunts. He must have a different last name. But let’s not find out what it is right now, okay? My head is spinning!” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It feels like the real deal. I actually married my high school sweetheart. Did Ocean tell you?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

One year later, in England, we got married. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dodo Conway was a Catholic who had gone to Barnard and then married an architect who had gone to Columbia and was also a Catholic. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

And he said quickly, “We will be married in a great church.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That she didn’t want to meet you, wouldn’t have you in her house—or me either if I married you.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was in her mid-thirties and married to a psychotherapist when Isaac and Jonah were born. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I explained how unmarried women wore their hair braided and pinned up, while married women wore their hair down. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As promised, Mohammad gives him a red tracksuit that will probably still fit him when he’s getting married. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought they didn’t see a point to getting married.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

When I was about nine, the ancient half-sister got engaged to be married. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

For this was the odd thing — all his life, he’d known he would get married, and yet he’d never stopped to consider what it would be like once he was. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why did Lina have to leave die village to get married?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Your sister isn’t old enough to get married.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She rarely danced for her family and they in turn often forgot that she had taken ballet lessons up until the time she married Lieutenant Meecham. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet if I had been Beatrice, and had a brother, and the brother married, surely one would have said something, expressed an opinion, written two words? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Because Soraya and I never had an engagement period, much of what I learned about the Taheris I learned after I married into their family. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The very thought of being married to Tata Ndu seemed to contaminate Rachel’s frame of mind, so that every ten minutes or so she’d stop whatever she was doing and scream with disgust. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the rules of the dynasty, Cleopatra now married her youngest brother, Ptolemy XIV, and resumed her seat on the throne as Egypt’s pharaoh. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have time to talk to me about Olga’s pregnancy and married boyfriend?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One daughter married an army general who for a time governed Formosa, and it was this uncle- general who encouraged Papa to enroll in a military school. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The two of them together would make one of the best farms in this section. Say! You thinking of getting married?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mariam wondered how so many women could suffer the same miserable luck, to have married, all of them, such dreadful men. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Maybe there’s something everyone is afraid of. With you it’s getting married. With me it’s shots.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My daughter is getting married a second time. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even they call us "Harlem" and "Upper East Side" when they joke about us getting married. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was describing a small tapestry she had embroidered as a wedding gift for her friend Thomas, the woodcarver, who had recently been married. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Aunt Pearl was always so proud that one of her sisters married a man with a good job who bought her a house in Queens. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Allen Diamondstein kept saying, "Isn't it ironic? My father is getting married just as I am getting divorced." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If the groom is not supposed to see the bride, how do they get married?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m not why. He was like that when I married him—or I wouldn’t have married him. Rufus just sent him a letter telling him to come back and get me.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Baba didn't get the chance to tell you but I got married fifteen years ago.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Eighteen, so he’s old enough to get married if he wants,” Chantal says. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If the world were fair, I suppose I would have married him, but there was no way that could happen in Virginia. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I scrubbed him, he said, “Is Harry getting married?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He never imagined that he would be anything but a married man with a family. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He met a shy, pretty girl named Matilde in Huamuxtidan, married her, and returned with her to New York, again illegally, all in a matter of weeks. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

One soldier bitterly observed, I went to war, served eight months in France; I was married, but I didn’t claim exemption. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She and Bunny had a relationship the likes of which I had seldom seen except in couples married for twenty years or more, a relationship which vacillated between the touching and the annoying. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’m new at this married thing, all right? Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“My God,” said Dad, who didn’t stop swearing until after he was married. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the oldest of nine children, only three of whom were married. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did not think of the fact that Pecola was not married; lots of girls had babies who were not married. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way Anthony saw things, each time one of their leaders married, it created one more obstacle, one more distraction that would interfere with the progress of suffrage and women’s rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He hopes to bring her next year, get married. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her advisers warned him that Octavia was setting a trap and had married him only to further her brother’s cause. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

And when, in 1662, England’s Charles II married Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese princess, she brought Bombay as part of her dowry, and a taste for tea to the English court. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

To which I replied, “Skid, seriously? I didn’t even know you wanted to get married.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

This was the first time since my sister got married that everybody was here. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

After Palestine, when the cotton was in, baled and spoken for, Joe got married and worked even harder. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa is getting married to a nice lady with groovy makeup and clothes. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Charlotte and Morrie, who met as students, had been married forty-four years. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It would have to be someone who understands about...I don’t think there’s anyone like that in my world. Would you get married?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I said, “Mr. Shears used to be married to Mrs. Shears and he left her, like in a divorce. But I don’t know if they were actually divorced.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were middle-class people, had lived all their married lives in a butter-colored middle-class ranch house in a stolid, middle-class town. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Glenn wasn’t married, and most of the other players on the team were. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

How do we honor the drunken death of a young married couple? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I married a man with some get up and go to him, who didn’t just want to stay on the bottom all his life!” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Clary—now married and a father—was ordered back to prison to complete his ten-year term. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth would be mortified by the thought of sharing a room with a man before she was married, Hilly would tell me I was stupid to even consider it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Still I thought, when Mr. Loomis recovered from his sickness, there was no reason why we could not plan to be married in a year; that is, next June, perhaps on my seventeenth birthday. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It's not proper for a married couple to show affection in public. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He never married or had children of his own, but he loved his family more than anything. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wished that they were a married couple of ten years’ standing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Even after her mother married Henry, sometimes Naomi slept next to her when he was away working in an oil field. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m still a little scared about Mama getting married,” Peaches said afterward. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were married officers at the same rank in a small corps, the Veterinary Corps. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We fell in love and were married on January 30, 1968. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to talk to you. ... I wanted to tell you . . . Rich and I are getting married.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now every cell of me was married to Nathan’s plan. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All! What, all five out at once? Very odd! And you only the second. The younger ones out before the elder ones are married! Your younger sisters must be very young?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She made it often when we first were married. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was with a Pawnee woman whom he’d reportedly married after Anna’s death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He said it didn't matter if a guy was married or not. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Bring a little girl up in the party way and when she married, she’d see to it that her man voted the straight Democratic ticket. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

So that was the second time they got married—in the pastor’s office—and they didn’t tell us about it until Ray started hanging around again. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We moved in right after we got married. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To protect Khouy from being conscripted into the army and Laine from being abducted by soldiers, they are married quickly in a quiet, secret ceremony with both sets of parents giving their blessings. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She married soon thereafter, the selfsame man who accused her of sublimity, and gave him merry hell for many years. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Honey, it’s time I got married. I’m not getting any younger and you know Joe’s really sweet.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me: “John Mark’s family—I’ve met a few of his cousins, but there are piles of them coming in from Michigan and Tennessee and California. He’s never been married before.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It is Ashima’s first job in America, the first since before she was married. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think much of books for a wedding present. Nobody ever gave me any book when I was married. I should never have read them if they had.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was not so much what they did as who they were—a married pair of cryptanalysts, one of whom was getting coast-to-coast press coverage. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He spent the weekend wooing her, and they were married just a few days later. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Other voices intrude: I hear the voices of my brother and sister and the people who have married into our family. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You married because he was your friend’s brother. A friend of your family’s. You figured your parents would want you to. It was the right thing to do.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he sensed how someone else’s eyes had haunted her most of her married life. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe if the whole country puts its mind to it, we can get you married before you’re thirty.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time she touched down on the Island forty-eight hours after finding the Baggy, we were all addicts, fallen women with married lovers and illegitimate babies on the way. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I sure wish we could get married, Sissy.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not want to tell his mother about Hatsue Miyamoto and how he had, many years ago, felt certain they would be married. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"You all know that when we were first married, we were really really poor?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Winston was married—had been married, at any rate; probably he still was married, for so far as he knew his wife was not dead. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It determines the core of the phrase’s meaning: in this case married his mother is a particular instance of marrying. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She never married or had children of her own; maybe that’s why she took such a genuine interest in us. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If he married soon, “I never should know French,—or see the Continent,—or go to America, or go up in a Balloon, or take solitary trip in Wales....” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After finding his way to South Korea, An found work as a banker in Seoul and married a South Korean woman. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It certainly didn’t sound like the Bill Donnelly I used to be married to. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Who, in this case, was a matron of honor because she is married. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Incidentally, Newsweek once stated that the chances of a college- educated single woman over thirty-five getting married were smaller than her chances of being killed by a terrorist. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I ended up just carrying him over my shoulder, like men always carry their wives in the old-time movies when they first get married. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Now here he was, a ghost of a name, about to get married in England. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You ever talk to that cow my father married?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only two pictures of Aunt Cilla’s childhood before she met and married Mr. Logan and lived in Bridgeport. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom got one soon after she married my dad. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I suppose,” Pinmei said, a little surprised, “after they were married, they lived happily as well.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

That she never sing in public had been one of the general’s conditions when they had married. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They have their tea but Uncle Pa Keating, who is my uncle because he’s married to my aunt Aggie, picks up Eugene and takes him on his lap. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Turned out, before she was married, she was a music teacher. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To hear the names he’s giving me! That Orlick! In my own house! Me, a married woman! With my husband standing by! Oh! Oh!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The corpse was mummified by the cold, and this time the lawmen had no trouble identifying the victim: Henry Roan, a forty-year-old Osage Indian who was married with two children. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“He’s married to my sister Mary—and— why he’s a free man. What’s the trouble?” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so when their wives were both with expectant happiness, they vowed, even before the babies left the womb, that should one be a girl and the other a boy, they would be married. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Not because she had an affair but because it was with John, who was married to her good friend Caroline. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The wedding will be in Calcutta, a little over a year from now, on an auspicious January day, just as she and her husband were married nearly thirty- four years ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if he would tell the waiter, take my arm smilingly and say, “You must congratulate us, Mademoiselle and I are going to be married.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They washed each other afterward, taking their time about it in the friendly way of certain married people, and then Carl got into bed and slept until one in the afternoon. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Since Harriet had married and moved out, Cora, Molly, and Sybil were the only inhabitants of their cabin, sleeping in the two rooms off the main living area. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I could only think how lucky a woman would be to be married to Raji; he was so kind and clever. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

We married in the town square when Alma and I were young, when people told us we didn’t know anything yet about the world. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no. I lived in Kraków. But I visited in the summer, with my grandmama’s sister. She lived in this apartment. But she’s gone now. To some camp somewhere. She married a Jew.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Nuremberg society, like that of Frankfurt, would frown on a married woman gathering grubs and caterpillars. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Settling in Georgia, he established his own machinery business, married, and had five children. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She spoke English and was married to a white man, and she had not succumbed to the temptations that had hurt many young members of the tribe, including Anna. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

So they were married amidst a festival of fireworks and a brass band that went on for three days. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He thought Charles would be happy being married. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You married like a good girl. I know.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saved her money in England and now she wants to go back with him and get married even if he’s only nineteen and she’s only seventeen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s nothing? I tell you my stuff. You’re helping me with one of the most important things in life—getting married.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He said that his parents—my grandparents—were married in 1945. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But I married him for his brains,” she said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Melina's era spanned the final dozen years of his married life. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

This schoolmaster married a sweet, indolent half-Chinese girl for whom the fatigue of bearing a son was too much. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course. We want Maya to finish school before getting married, but you know, it can’t hurt to have someone in mind.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

We fell in love almost from the minute we met and were married within that year. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

This article was written by a married woman lawyer with children and called "In Defense of Chastity." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He said: “No, I never got married. Why did you ask that?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Are you happy you married me?” he would ask. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After she married John Smith when she was twenty-four, she centered her life around family and church, yet she often told fond stories about her student days. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had gotten married over the telephone in 1899, just for the novelty and wonderment of exchanging vows in two different cities by means of such an exciting new invention. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Many boys were pledged or even married in their early teens, and some, where the uniting of high-class families was at issue, to older girls. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was a feature on two guys who’d just gotten married. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You’re the sort of girl who should get married,” he says one day, when I appear with a pile of folded shirts and jeans. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They got married and had children while they were still children themselves. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They married local girls and just stayed there for the rest of their lives. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never failed her, not even when she had married and they had spent a year apart. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was New Year’s Eve, and Billy was disgracefully drunk at a party where everybody was in optometry or married to an optometrist. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them married French people or came here for work, but none of them viewed the move as a political act. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He married my mother, a white Jewish woman, when she had eight mixed- race black children, me being the youngest at less than a year old. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This past summer, her grandfather had married my grandmother. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, they didn’t. They told me that I didn’t qualify, that unless I married a second time I would have to leave Alexandra.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did Granny become colored when she married Grandpa?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the prayers the principal tells us of coming events, and he also warns us to pick up our chewing gum wrappers and not to moon around in the halls like old married couples. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I told her everything. Even about you and Kevin being married. Especially about that.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The orphaned son of a white trader and a Sioux woman, Palmer had been adopted as a child by an Osage family and had since married an Osage woman. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They had not, in life and in death, been married for over two hundred and fifty years for nothing. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Even Baba would probably rather I get married than pursue theater. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I lolled on my back and worked on my tablecloth listlessly, to preserve my mother’s fantasy that I’d be getting married one day, and after a while it began to draw me in. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know the whole answer, but part of it was her being out on the farm, isolated from things, married to a man she really didn’t want to be married to.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked my mom with all my boyhood anger, “How could you have married that guy?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He had another three children with his second wife, one of whom was married to the man I was going to work for. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He thought of his own home, just five miles away, and the young married couple who waved from time to time as they jogged at sunset along the shore. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t want me to go. She wanted me to stay home and get married.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Charles married my aunt: he belonged to my master’s father-in-law, Mr. William Hamilton. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

Once married, it is customary to settle into one consistent appearance. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe she came from a good family, which back home was the reason men married plain, bucktoothed women. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He died in World War II. They never married or had children. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Since they were cousins, the family money would stay within the family, just as it had when Emma’s brother Jos had married Charles’s sister Caroline. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They caution us that while waiting for sponsors many refugees get married and have children, and each time that happens new paperwork must be drawn up, which prolongs their stay. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was first married he used to talk about Lincoln’s Heaven to Ruth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are a married woman now,” said Bird. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“No, man, she already married this fat fool;” “Then why are you asking her to wait?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s old-fashioned, but no one really feels married in District 12 until after the toasting. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He's married, and I think his wife is pregnant now. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Shortly after he and Zelda were married, they attended a fund-raising dinner at the University School. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He got to America and married a pretty Marxist candy striper to get citizenship, and eventually they decided to have kids. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had met and made friends with a few other women married to men who worked in the same factory as my father, but having acquaintances was not the same as having her family. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Even though Mom converted to Judaism when my parents got married, we’re not very observant. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

First they are told that Samuel W. Westing was married to their cleaning woman, now a judge is calling herself stupid. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then when he got married, I used to play tennis with he and Mrs. Antolini quite frequently, out at the West Side Tennis Club, in Forest Hills, Long Island. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

That winter, after she and Thumbumuzi were married, they came to see me, along with their newborn baby daughter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every month I put away a rupee or two against the time Ira would be married. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even some destined bachelors get married. I am a very lucky person.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Gram is buried in the aspen grove where she and Gramps were married. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Malloy is married to one of the head deacons, and she’s also one of the organizers of the Housewives’ League with Mrs. Peck. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After our miserable lunch, I gave up the idea that there would ever be a good time to tell her the news: that Rich Schields and I were getting married. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In truth, they seemed more content and faithful than many officially married couples I have seen since. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He cursed and said, ‘We were married exactly one week, Cleo, when you called me his name! I won’t ever forget that.’ Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

By now my older brother might be married, and his wife would be living in the home of my parents. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Slater family, which she married into, is an old name in these parts and famous for offspring with extremely hard heads. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At an earlier proceeding, he was asked what his profession was, and he said, “I don’t work. I married an Osage.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Some of her brothers joined the Army, one sister died, and two got married, increasing the living space and giving the entire Kentucky venture a feel of luxury. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Bunting never married largely because she wasn’t asked ate. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She eventually married the pastry chef and they both ate a lot until old age claimed them. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Three years after embarking on this lucrative career path, he married the fourteen-year-old daughter of one of his bosses. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The moment she got breasts they were bound and resented, a resentment that increased to outright hatred of her pregnant possibilities and never stopped until she married Louis Manfred, when suddenly it was the opposite. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had married for love, and my father refused to take a second wife, even after several years of marriage, when it appeared that I would be their only child. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need to be wise to know the princess doesn’t want to be married at all. It’s not you. It’s anyone.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He quit, though, when he married my mother. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

My mother interjected, laughing, “No silly, your grandma didn’t get married. The miracle concerns you.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gross! Isn’t that what people do when they get married?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They went to Texas A&M University in College Station, met at a student pub where Jim tended bar, and married three years later, in 1988. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Six months later they were married, and Ryan and Brad became brothers. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m already married,” she would tell them, and what could they say to that? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“What is this?” he said, his fingers working the meat off a bone—the spoon-and-fork charade was abandoned a week after he married the girl. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“If this was twenty years ago, I’d a already married her.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine what it’s like being married to him?” they might ask. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I do not know, my dear. I am sure I was very much surprized when I first heard she was going to be married.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Few married women worked outside the home, but their days were full of tasks every bit as necessary as their husbands’ to keep the family afloat. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Not of Luke but of the fact that he was married. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a year’s time he was married; later, he was a father. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She and Dr. Phil had been married a year after they met delivering me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They had decided to get married a week before the execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was only fourteen, it was true, but she was as tall as Nancy and within two years as old as Ellen had been when she married Matthew Creighton. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after he got the top of his head shot off in the Battle of Chickamauga, Cudn Vanna married an Englishman, a blockade-runner for the Confederates. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The girls were married, all except Dessie, and she had a successful dressmaking business in Salinas. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Insults were hurled: The philosophers called the greenwitches superstitious old wives, and the greenwitches retorted that not one of them was married. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gray Horse, in the western part of the territory, consisted of little more than a cluster of newly built lodges, and it was here where Lizzie and Ne-kah-e-se-y, who married in 1874, settled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We returned to the the city talking of nothing more than a famous cinema actress who had just married, and the mosquito bites we got by the river. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, there was the blithe unselfconciousness of some crotchety old Veteran of Foreign Wars—married for years, father of multitudes—who finds the topic infinitely repugnant and amusing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His grandma had been, raised on a farm in Virginia and had come to New York when she married his grandfather. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had inherited some estate in Connecticut around the time her parents were married. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They married and returned to his island home where there wasn't anything to do—Doña Charito griped in her gutturals—but get one's work done. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

For a long time I wondered why he ever married a woman like my mom in the first place, as she was the opposite of that in every way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

So to me the idea of getting married seemed like quite an enormous step. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Hopkins made millions working as a banker and grocer, and selling his own brand of whiskey, but he never married and had no children. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He is the subject of schoolwide speculation, and slight scandal, having once been married to Ms. Sagan, who teaches French. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few girls went off to be teachers or nurses for a while before they got married, and I considered them lucky. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I felt very much the same as I did the morning I was married. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

His parents came from western Massachusetts and married young. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“They don’t play much. And Jules is thinking about breaking things off. She says it’s like she and Adrian are married. They never do anything.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When a woman came in to eat alone, and he found she really was alone, not married, or living with somebody, it generally was not hard for smooth Sammy to get invited to her apartment. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he would not be back, so far as those boys in Bataan were concerned, and neither would the soldier boy I’d married. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were married ten days later in the small Chinese city of Yixing, in front of over two hundred people. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“He was married to my mother. He’s the twins’ father!” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It is improper for a lady and gentleman who are not married to one another to hold a private conversation without a chaperone!” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She found she had married an attentive man whose pursuit as a lover was to ensure her satisfaction. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the later years of his life Theseus married Ariadne’s sister Phaedra, and thereby drew down terrible misfortunes on her and on himself and on his son Hippolytus, the son the Amazon had borne him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of Grandma getting married so long ago, bringing the four beautiful trunks full of gifts her mother had sent from Tianjin to Shanghai. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t I look like a married man and the head of a family?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was on a plantation down near Montgomery. She had two children and she had a man she loved, but they weren’t married because the slaves couldn’t get married like the white folks could.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I never wondered what it was like for my mother to be a full-time, at-home mother, I never wondered then what it meant to be married. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“We got married cause I was pregnant,” Miss Celia says, “but it... it slipped out too.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There was a circlet of whiter skin on his third finger where he used to wear the signet ring that Katie had given him when they married. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When are you to be married, and where, and who is to perform the ceremony, and what are you to wear, and is it to be a public or a private wedding? Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“It might help if you two were married.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In great anger he put her away and married one of her maids, Sidero, who ill-treated her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were cousins. And we married. Has this boy asked for your hand?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“But no one escapes the consequences of their errors, and your father has made many. It started when he married that woman.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

For example, if the son of a Hasid married the daughter of a Mitnaged, both fathers would say Kaddish after their children, considering them to be dead and buried. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They were married a short time later, first signing their Islamic marriage contract in a traditional nikah ceremony, and then later they celebrated with a more formal occasion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He had served the Fefles family for forty years, was married to the nurse who had greeted Elaine with tears of joy, and he approved of love. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people are saying that she had an affair with a married man and her parents threw her out. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It appears that Major Henry Reed Rathbone, present in the box on the night Lincoln was shot, later married Clara Harris. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He told Winnie she was marrying a man who was already married to the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides. Listen to me, career girl. If you ever get married again, don’t tell your husband anything. Do you hear me?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“No. Well, not directly. She just makes comments sometimes. Basically, she makes it sound as if it were the most evil thing a person could do if they aren’t married.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I don't take any interest in anything else any more. I’m so very happy married to you.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She told how Bluebeard had duped and married his seven wives, how he had loved and slain them, how he had hanged them up by their hair in a dark closet. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you’re married to the president, you come to understand quickly that the world brims with chaos, that disasters unfurl without notice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“He thinks I married him for his looks.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Another was that her eldest daughter married a severe young man with jet-black hair and an appetite for unconventionality. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“He is the only one home and he is thin. So thin. My sisters are married and in Shanghai. My other brother was killed by a shell.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Calcutta, before she was married, she was working toward a college degree. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The thing I love about you, Bull, is your radiant love of mankind. Sometimes when you talk I wonder how two people so different could be married so long.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s too embarrassing now. I show too plainly. I won't go before any one and be married in this state.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I was born seven months after they got married.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he burst into the darkened second-floor bedroom, he said, “Mary Willis, guess what! Your daddy just left in his buggy with Miss Love Simpson! Said they were off to Jefferson to get married!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Let's get this straight: I'm not going to forget why I'm here just because I chose Abnegation and I'm going to get married. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I want to tell you something. Abel and I are going to get married.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was soon to be married for the third time, and one heard dark whisperings about the deaths of his first two wives. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe he would remember this—me walking my dog past him and his brother throwing a baseball back and forth—one day far into the future, after we were married. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Most of them, including Aunt Loma, thought Miss Love would join their congregation with Grandpa “for the same reason she married him—to come up in the world.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I wonder if you secretly had boyfriends throughout the years, or if you went straight from living with Maman and Baba to getting married. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I mean the Colonel Armstrong who married an American wife and whose only child was kidnapped and killed.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We married her to a school principal. The rice was cooked in rosewater. The mayor was invited. Everybody washed their fingers in pewter bowls.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

With Viola married and Gerry grown, I found myself sleeping on the couch in the living room. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sitcom families—married parents in giant houses, with framed family portraits lining the staircases. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad were probably laughing, relieved to be off by themselves for the longest vacation of their married lives. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

By 1904 he was married, had a newborn son, and was laboring in the patent office—hardly the path to greatness. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“If my sister says ‘I do’ and signs a piece of paper, while Justice Strauss is in the room, then she is legally married. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Which is the way he always talked about my father, who had married his dear departed daughter and produced, eek eek, Maxwell. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

And when the truth about Dusty came out and everyone saw that Dad was right, Mom would feel better about staying married to him. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Van never lost his way with women, and he later married and divorced at least two heiresses. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Shortly after that the couple was married in a private ceremony in the prison. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

According to relatives, their love was genuine, and in 1928 they were married. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Armpit remembered Kaira saying something about him being married to her mother, but she never referred to him as her father. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

But Ma and Pa would be upset if Theo married a Catholic, lower-class woman. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Tochi had lost her job at a bank after the last bank crisis, but she had married a wealthy lawyer and had a baby. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I watch them now from my upstairs room, the room June left behind when she got married last month. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If you can do the same for me, let's get married." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The girl grew to be a woman, married, had a child, and was quite happy. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“If you and Miltie want to get married, you have my blessing,” she said. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Procne, the elder of the two, was married to Tereus of Thrace, a son of Ares, who proved to have inherited all his father’s detestable qualities. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

About a year after they got married, my parents moved down to the Keys. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“First of all, Charlie and I aren’t looking to get married. Second of all, I know their family disapproves of me.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I learned he was a married man, fifty-three years old, father of a family now grown and grandfather of two children. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lili was searching for some kind of sign—a blink, a smile, a wink—something that would remind her of the man that she had married. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

They were in their early forties then, married nearly twenty years. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Or maybe we shouldn’t have gotten married in the first place. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Jack are married, and Jack’s last name is Leith. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Because it’s been that way since me and your grandma been married. Pots been in the same place since your daddy was a little boy,” Grandpop explained. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But even after Papa married at nineteen, making forty dollars a month, he still had to send Grandpa Tweedy ten of it till the day he was twenty-one. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A native of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, a graduate of Harvard Law, Bloom had been married once before, to a rich young Bostonian named Sherri Pope, a Radcliffe graduate with a master’s in education. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No one in our family has ever married outside,” she said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I fancied that I would have married him, had he lived. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until the day she married him she never believed that she would ever consent to be his wife. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night they were married he had taken off her shoes and stockings and kissed her feet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I did not wear a prayer shawl; they were worn only by adults who were or had once been married. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Because of it, she could understand why, when essentially they were so mismatched, her mother had married her father. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a way, that's why I sort of wanted to get some practice in, in case I ever get married. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

One thousand married couples who desire to have three children each are tracked for ten years, during which time 800 of them, assume, do manage to produce three children. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All women, married or single, lacked most of the rights that men could claim as their birthright. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They were married in an aspen grove on a clear July day, and afterward they and all their friends and relatives had a wedding supper on the banks of the river. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Maybe not at first, but what about later? What about when we had been married for ten years?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But Vincent wants to stay home for the family’s first wedding: Anna is getting married in August. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like I have no intention of getting married,” she said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Who would look after her when we were gone and the boys were married with families of their own? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been a virgin when she married and had humbly submitted to her husband’s brutal love. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never was married as far as I know. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started going at Pap ’bout how come he ain’t been paying what he was s’pose to and how close us and our animals was to starving and how she shouldn’t-a never married him. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“He said he wasn’t afraid of being married, only of getting married.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until today she neither knew nor cared how, because the subject was uninteresting, but if someone had a baby without being married, her family was plunged into deep disgrace. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

After long wanderings and many trials on land and sea he reached Italy, where he defeated those who opposed his entering the country, married the daughter of a powerful king and founded a city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That's one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“But Aunt Sissy, he’s been married seven years and it’s settled by now—whether he’s happy or not.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, when it was clear that she was not a woman for bearing a child, Pitipiti’s husband married another wife. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Dad’s sister, Bennie, married a Coalwood miner and they lived down across the creek, near the big machine shops. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. So I never considered I was married, and didn’t think I had to get a divorce.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benito, Steven’s older brother, had married the daughter of the Nigerian president because Nigeria was one of the richest countries in the world. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, they can get married only after the war, since Bertus is in hiding, or at any rate has gone underground. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And I had married one of the the prettiest. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Even the ones that go to church, they still worship the false-eye dolls and get married to each other time and again. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On that head, therefore, I shall be uniformly silent; and you may assure yourself that no ungenerous reproach shall ever pass my lips when we are married.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“And I know protests can be good. Just like I know that not all cops are bad. I married one.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“If I am made to get married,” thought the Wart, who had doubts on the subject, “I will marry a girl like this: a kind of golden vixen.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were patronized by their married contemporaries, they were vaguely felt sorry for, and were produced to date any stray extra man who happened to be visiting their friends. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to get married anytime soon. Maybe not ever. This date doesn’t change that.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Owen had no other family, had never married and had stayed close to them, lived only four blocks away, ate with them and was the first to take David sailing. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you say? Do you have a daughter who has married well? Or a son who died in the holy city of Varanasi? We are not the same.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Was it difficult to bend yourself to the will of Lord Valdemar when you were first married?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

An octoroon woman in Bastrop had passed and married a white farmer. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“How the hell did we ever get married? Did you just say ‘I do’ because the minister said ‘repeat after me’? What would you have done with your life if I had never married you? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like everybody else in Cold Sassy, she would call it worth mentioning that her husband got married just three weeks after she went to her grave. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Bran did want to be married to a tree ... but who else would wed a broken boy like him? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She looked like she should be married to the man in the moon. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“I don't understand why you lied to me. Both of you. You pretended you were agreeing to Insomnia Con for me, but this is...it's ridiculous, Papa. I'm not getting married.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“My daughters were married years ago. Both are busy with their own lives in faraway villages. I have no sons.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was married now, to a Punjabi girl, and they lived in London still, and every year they exchanged Christmas cards with Raj and Mina, each couple tucking photos of their families into the envelopes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He loves his mother but he’ll never get married for fear he might have a wife in and out of the lunatic asylum. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I liked it that way, and four years after I moved into his apartment, we got married. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My daughter does not know that I was married to this man so long ago, twenty years before she was even born. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Talc idly wondered if they had married each other. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gods be good, he talks as if we were not married yet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The girl’s father was delighted with the offer and married his daughter to the boy at once. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You loved me when you married me but you don’t love me now, do you? He waited. Evy said nothing. “You see, she don’t love me anymore,” he said to Mama. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before they were married, both of them had briefly attended community colleges, but each had abandoned the exercise long before getting a degree. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

That man turned out to be a great actor from a world-famous family, and soon Mabel married him and changed her name to And suddenly it dawned on Joseph who the story was really about. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I worked a big deal in futures for their father this morning; nice girls; it’s time they were getting married. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dennis hemmed and hawed on it and finally he said, “Let’s live together as husband and wife. We don’t need the world to know we’re married. The world isn’t ready for us yet.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time she turned twenty-three, she gave in to societal norms and decided to get married to a first cousin she had never met. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I think about Al Campanis, the Dodgers vice president, who wanted him to get married. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“You know, Dwayne’s been talking about getting married since we started dating. He can hardly stand it, but I’m fixin’ on graduating first. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother had lived in the llano many years when she married my father, but the valley and the river were too ingrained in her for her to change. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been married to Grandfather only a year before he had left to make his fortune. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s true that Regina Fischer left the apartment to go on a long peace march, met a man, got married, and settled in England. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Janie, you mark my words, you be careful who you trust. You never know when the man you married is going to turn around and try to take a nibble out of your neck.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Then turning to Mrs. Weston, with a look of gentle reproach—“Ah! Miss Taylor, if you had not married, you would have staid at home with me.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, it seemed safely far off, like getting married or giving birth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I expected him to say, "No, I have been saving myself for when I get married to somebody pure and a virgin like you." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The justice of the peace determined that the young woman, who was married and had a child, had been “blown to pieces.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Call was not discharged as soon as he had hoped, so it was the next year, the day before Christmas 1946, that he and Caroline were married. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this sentence we have the phrase In Sophocles’play as a modifier of the clause Oedipus married his mother. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

That’s when Sam explained that they were actually stepsister and stepbrother since Patrick’s dad married Sam’s mom. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“He has married. He has someone to sew and cook for him. But I can still help him with the oxen.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are those two married over there—leaning on each other?” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she wasn’t certain that it was third or not because Sula was acting up, fretting the deweys and meddling the newly married couple. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dunlap, who was maybe perfectly happy or perfectly miserable, married with kids or a bachelor. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She might have married and settled on a more conventional path if she had not spent several weeks each summer visiting her cousin Gerrit Smith in Peterboro, New York. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She never married or went anywhere even on her days off. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Under the sunlight in Willits, Agnes and Red Pollard spent their first married moments standing together, hearing the good wishes of their friends. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a condition of life ever since she had married Gary Gaines. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll have you know that I'm married to a fine, intelligent Negro girl," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Naturally we’ll still get married,” she’d tell him, “but it doesn’t have to be right away. Maybe travel first. Maybe live together. Just test it out, you know?” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She married two extraordinary men and raised twelve very creative and talented children, and I ought to list their names now. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, my manager. But I bet he just married her to have more control over me, because he’s got a girlfriend, too. It doesn’t matter. I’m going to fire him when I turn eighteen.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

If Grandpa could go get married, maybe I could go fishing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He had an older sister who was married and lived in Houston, and an older brother serving eight to ten at Huntsville. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

For that reason we couldn’t actually get legally married right away. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that she and my dad were married young. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Idunn was married to Bragi, god of poetry, and she was sweet and gentle and kind. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Next she'll mention having to give up her family because she married a Jew—no, she never brings that up, Grace with all her faults would never do that. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before he left the house on Fridays, he would admire himself in the mirror and say, “Your mother married a handsome man.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The last time they had been together, in Dubai, they were married to each other. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Lourdes was a virgin when she married, and very proud of it. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it's because she was only eighteen when her parents married her off. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At one point, she describes a time just after my parents were married when they were living in London and my eldest brother was still a baby. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It seemed that Beverly, the second of Mr. Clutter’s surviving daughters, had married Mr. Vere Edward English, the young biology student to whom she had long been engaged. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a vigorous man and needed the body of a woman, and that too cost money—unless you were married to it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Still--I was married in the middle of June," Daisy remembered, "Louisville in June! Somebody fainted. Who was it fainted, Tom?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I'd cook all my own food, and later on, if I wanted to get married or something, I'd meet this beautiful girl that was also a deaf-mute and we'd get married. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The last time she told the story she liked to tell about the eldest was when Carla got married. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“My mother came to Sylvan,” I said, “met T. Ray, and got married.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe we could have gotten married and been happy, regardless of who our parents were and what they did to each other. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Had I married and led a proper life, I would have sent for you long ago. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“She had this laugh. I swear it’s why I married her, Laila, for that laugh. It bulldozed you. You stood no chance against it.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Muslim sisters, both married and single, were given an honor and respect that I’d never seen black men give to their women, and it felt wonderful to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The uncle was away, but the aunt invited the investigators inside and launched into a venomous rant about how Ernest had married one of those red millionaires. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he and Mrs. Coulter would fall in love, and they would get married and adopt Lyra, and go and rescue Roger from the Gobblers. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

My sister says the only reason Mom married him was to give me a male role model so I’d know how to grow up into a man, and so we wouldn’t be on welfare. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Actually, maybe they were only engaged to be married. Anyway, one day she got fed up with Dusty and moved in with Lice.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Theresa tried to hint — she wouldn’t mind if her sister married first. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I doubted that though there were several she could have married at a nod of her head but I pretended to be surprised. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ve wished 100 times that we had gotten married when we were at Phoenix,” he wrote to her, “but I wouldn’t ask you now to come out here + live in a dump like Ephrata.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Another way girls get married in the villages is if a father promises a bride to another father—then their kids grow up and get married. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Made of elm and built by her father when he married her mother, the table was large, sturdy, and dependable—and so much more than a place for meals. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I know what he’s going to ask, so before he can, I say, “It started before. While we were still married. The drinking. That’s what you wanted to know', isn’t it?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents went to Ohio to see a very distant cousin get buried or married. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“If you loved him you would never have married him,” she said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

When she married my father, I was the once-a-month visitor who cleaned the kitchen without being told and babysat for free. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Ah wants to see you married right away.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

People lose jobs, move, get married and unmarried, get sick, fall behind on bills, have more kids. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She said she’d married a bearish man in an amusement park and that he’d planned to escape Cuba, to take a fishing boat north and go ice skating. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him I was leaving if we didn’t get married. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she was a Muslim married to a Syrian American, managing a sprawling painting and contracting business. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He married another mulatto, a woman who was half European and half Arawak, which is the Indian tribe indigenous to Jamaica, and had seven children. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We married with simple hopes: enough to eat and children who might outlive us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Wu had been detained too, even though her only crime was having had relations with other men before she married Uncle Tian. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see the fearsome face of Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle, who murdered his father and married his mother, my dear queen Gertrude, whom he poisoned. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"I'm not even sure I want to get married. It's such a patriarchal institution. This is exactly why I'm never going back to India!" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, come on. Just because I’m getting married doesn’t mean I’m dying. I’m here! We can still share things.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama had worked as a dietician in Washington after she was married. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t have much choice, did I? I married him before I realized. You’ve seen it. When he’s happy, he’s the most charming creature on earth. But when something sets him off...” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was like a seal of stability, their wedding, because as long as they were married, his world with them was safe. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I am your Prince and I’m not that bad—how could you rather be dead than married to me?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The sun set early in winter, but a little light still filtered in through the lace curtains Aunt Rose had crocheted long ago when she and her husband had first been married. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“What was her name before you married her?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had said it with no concern at all even though she knew her life could become much harder if Rufus married. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

This hunter married a girl who was soon expecting his child. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And it just so happened that she was married to Hale’s nephew Ernest, a man who, as an agent wrote in a report, “is absolutely controlled by Hale.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“There are times when married life is not what I expected” Lady Constance finally remarked, after three quarters of an hour had passed. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She knew she had only been allowed to remain at the Academy because her father was the King’s Chancellor, and her mother—before she married him—had been a sage. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Hannah’s new friends danced by the wagon’s side, hands joined, singing: Who asked you to get married? The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline too was going to get married whether Ma wanted her to or not. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The Newlyweds chattered smugly of their Bobs and Michaels, of how they had been married to Bob and Michael for four months and Bob and Michael had gained twenty pounds apiece. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Root also married a daughter of the stockyards, but his experience was darker. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Panic lanced through him at the thought of remaining married; without Ifemelu, the future loomed as an endless, joyless tedium. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We do not embrace such archaic customs, and furthermore, does she look ready to be married? She is fourteen years old.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“A married woman wouldn’t step foot in church on a Sunday without a hat.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She had never married, she said, and probably never would. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They considered themselves married and didn’t see much point in announcing it to any government or God. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If they had, she was now married to Nanko and was the mother of many children. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the quick engagement, they waited two years to get married, by which time Joy was a junior and Bill a recent graduate looking for work. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Girls are told not to have children until they are married to a “good” black man who can help provide for a family with a legal job. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She also discussed the need for divorce reform so that women married to alcoholic men could escape difficult, dangerous marriages. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Of the 243 “happily married” men in the sample, only 12 chose to post a picture of themselves. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But then I remembered how Chucha used to say girls who keep seashells die old maids, and I took it back to Tía Mari and said, Keep this for me until I’m married. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Her having married a Baptist, Cold Sassy naturally expected her to show up there that morning. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They had been married only a few years and had one small child and a second on the way. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

First, her status requires two paychecks and the stability and backup she gets from being married. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

When they got married Laura told Shadow that she wanted a puppy, but their landlord had pointed out they weren’t allowed pets under the terms of their lease. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, right. You wish I were more like Seema didi. Quietly get married to someone you choose, quietly have a baby, accept my path without a fight. Right? You’d love that.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My sister married a man who may have assisted in his death-sentence transport to Shaba, though even Rachel will never know that for sure. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was determined to remain married and it was the least he owed her, to remain married. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“She had a condition similar to your daughter’s. She’s married now. She and her husband adopted two kids and they’re as happy as can be. She plays in the Cleveland Orchestra. Bassoon.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I expect it was the first time she’d been happy since she got married. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So it came around that she had been married a week and sent Pheoby a card with a picture on it. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

They married and two years later she died in childbirth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“A good age to get married and settle down, so I can die in peace.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times, the soldiers come back with the girl and tell her parents they have married. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was true that being married to Hamlet would free me from my father’s power. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jones wanted to know who was the bride, who married them, and all about it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

People get married for all kinds of reasons. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Every night, when the married couple retired to their rooms, she was overwhelmed by a peculiar hatred she could not explain, which filled her soul with regret. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the things that matter were decided long ago—who you are, whom you married, what kind of life you lead. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In 1845, married and caring for a newborn daughter, John and Mary decided to move farther north and make Chicago their home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

So Hamlet and I were married in our rustic attire, with woodland flowers to deck us. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t thinking about getting married or having kids or anything like that at all. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told Jo, “My married life so far has been torture.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Ignoring him, even telling him that she was moving in with a man to whom she was not married, was something she could do only because she lived in America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She goes, Yup, married, and with the scars to prove it. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after they'd been married and had their own families and often couldn't make it for other occasions, the four daughters always came home for their father's birthday. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He said to her, “This work is not for a married female. You are either going to neglect your work or neglect your family.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a good thing he’s happily married. A lot of the nurses at the hospital have a hard time concentrating on their work with him around.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He married and divorced repeatedly, gaining notoriety among gossip columnists for slugging one of his wives and engaging in public shouting matches with the others. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A degradation to illegitimacy and ignorance, to be married to a respectable, intelligent gentleman-farmer!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

She was thirty-five now, had been married three times, and had given birth to ten children, all of whom had died soon after being born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought we’d agreed on an open communication plan. I don’t want to be finding out that you’re getting married in this way.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

And Westley and Buttercup—well, they had their troubles, sure, but they were going to get married and live happily ever after. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“When it comes down to it—to answer your question—here’s what you should do about being unhappy: you should get married and have some children.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

P. P. S.—We are to be married on 28 September.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t eaten at our house since before Granny took sick, and Grandpa hadn’t been there for a meal since they got married. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Barack and I were dismayed to see this, a reflection of the worst and most paranoid parts of the man who’d married us and baptized our children. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And now that she was stuck with it, she was mad at Mama for having married so much better than her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

From there the married couple continued on to Chicago by train. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He called his officer his guardian angel, and eventually married her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Every other year she says something about how Mary was working for a living, and just because she’s not married, it doesn’t mean that she is worthless. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It feels good. I can now get married without my parents’ permission, buy liquor in South Carolina, and die in any war that comes up. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was quite a scandal when they married. She had no money and no connections, but at least she abided by the law. Not like your birth mother.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She was dropping things and eating food that belonged to the newly married couple and started in to worrying everybody that the deweys needed a bath and she was going to give it to them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And if he was Tag’s father, was he married to Donkey berry? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were her mother's friends and the newly married daughters of her mother's friends—and Turtle, who was leaning against the wall, arms folded, smirking. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Scout, different folks get married for different kinds of reasons. Miss Alexandra, I think she got married to keep house.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And he wondered whether he had baptized Kino’s baby, or married him for that matter. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

More commonly, two states joined when their rulers married. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“And till Colonel Forster came himself, not one of you entertained a doubt, I suppose, of their being really married?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Then, experimentally, she said, “You know, I’ve been thinking of getting married.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to stay married to a woman? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

For young Walt McCandless—just out of college, married, and with a baby on the way—’Sputnik opened the door to opportunity. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lou Volpe was, as well, gay, which he knew on the day he was married and, in fact, sensed long before he could give what he was feeling a name. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I like that and I decide that if I ever get married, I too will keep my name. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She didn’t even wonder whom she would have married. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You don't like my mother because she’s on to you. She was right. I should have married a doctor, somebody with ideals.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grew up in Baltimore and had never married but didn’t look or act like any other old maid in town. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t married Bull, I think mother would have disowned me. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got married in-stead and moved away to a pretty house outside the city. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they were secretly married like Romeo and Juliet,” I say. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She was a “married female”—and therefore, they claimed, she might panic. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw what was going through Mama’s mind like she was in the funny paper with a balloon coming out of her head: It’s enough he up and married like he did, said the balloon. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Someone who doesn’t always want to be married to work, but who has more reasons to fight than ever. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Pastor Curtis came to the house with an even bigger Bible than Big Ma’s black Bible and married our grandmother to her next-door neighbor in the living room. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I know lots of women who never wear the hijab. Even my mama didn’t start wearing it until after she got married.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Hugo married Felicia at city hall the week of the Cuban missile crisis. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother Richie got married at eighteen over Mommy’s objections, divorced, then entered college, and was home on summer break when he got stopped by two cops while walking down the street with a friend. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what it would be like to be thirteen and married. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In France the young girls have a dull time of it till they are married, when ‘Vive la liberte!’ becomes their motto. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d have married you if you hadn’t a penny, and I sometimes wish you were poor that I might show how much I love you.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went to City Hall, where Sissy swore that she was eighteen, and were married by one of the clerks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see it in his friends, many of whom had gotten married while he was away. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m happy for them,” Blanca interrupted, “but they shouldn’t just get married.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

"It's a different kind. But yes, Gerta, I do. I would have married her, if it wouldn't have raised too many questions. And she loves you, too, like her own daughter." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My parents started their married life from scratch with nothing in the bank. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By then she and Joffrey would be married. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Older married couples are less likely to divorce and more likely to die than younger married couples. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They never seemed to run out of things to say to each other, which made it all the more astounding that they'd known each other for a total of two weeks before they got married. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“No. When he had all that about going into the church and not getting married, I tried to fight with him, but he wouldn’t.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Of course she might have loved him, just for a minute, when they were first married--and loved me more even then, do you see?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z