“I want to marry Freya. Bring her here in eight days from now. I’ll return the hammer of the gods as a bride-gift on Freya’s wedding night.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“These doctors exaggerate. If families marrying each other was so bad, we’d all have six arms and no legs.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But anyway, I just wove another mug rug until she said, “He wanted to marry me, you know.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Now here he was, a ghost of a name, about to get married in England. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Instead of spending my paychecks on rum and beer like before, I saved enough to buy Celia a gold ring from Reprosa, and I asked her to marry me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

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

The last time they had been together, in Dubai, they were married to each other. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I have pledged my love to you, and now I will marry you. Then we may touch each other most nearly without it being a sin, and no one else may touch us.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

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

When he was eleven, he had said he would marry her—if he had to. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The Rupp family were Roman Catholics, the Clutters, Methodist—a fact that should in itself be sufficient to terminate whatever fancies she and this boy might have of some day marrying. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

George married an American, and they had a baby whom they named Gwen. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

"He got married and then there were none." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Madge had run off and married Sergeant Gale, and Ma had been so put to it to keep Mr. Tweedie in the family she had married him herself. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day before, his daughter, Tricia, had been married in the Rose Garden at the White House. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And the little line about myself at the bottom, saying who Maxim had married as his second wife, and how he had just given the fancy dress ball at Manderley. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

He died in World War II. They never married or had children. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

‘I know that but you got it wrong. She didn’t marry that rotten Humperdinck. She marries Westley.’ The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But Charles felt that he had found more reasons to marry than not. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He not only can do that,” a soldier answered him, “but we're fighting this war against the priests so that a person can marry his own mother.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

“You may try,” Lady Meng said, speaking the words as if spitting poison, “to marry my corpse.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I sure wish we could get married, Sissy.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

No, I did not want to grow up and marry Sam Washburn. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He escaped from the Russian army and snuck over the Polish border and married my mother in an arranged marriage. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

But I grudged Ira nothing: had I not saved from the day of her birth so that she should marry well? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

My younger brother said, “There is sure to be something wrong with anyone who agrees to marry you.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If you mean, Miss Havisham, what have you done to injure me, let me answer. Very little. I should have loved her under any circumstances. Is she married?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Then, experimentally, she said, “You know, I’ve been thinking of getting married.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Later that night, once he’s alone at his desk, he replies: was it a meeting about which of your cousins have to marry each other to take back casterly rock? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He comes to our house and says he heard what all’s going on with Tata Undo wanting to get married to Rachel. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was about nine, the ancient half-sister got engaged to be married. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I thought girls always wanted to be married.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

“Why not? Don’t you want to marry me, Kit?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Asked you to marry me? Why shouldn’t I?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

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

Some seemed to be married and had children of their own. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Six months later they were married, and Ryan and Brad became brothers. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

But before she fled, she advised the boy that he had better not try to converse with women who were dressed in black, because they were married women. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“If it’s church it’s got to be high church. He was talking about how priests shouldn’t be married.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had been assumed that she and Magdalene called Lena would marry well—but hopes for Corinthians were especially high since she’d gone to college. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You marry the person you love—and none other,” he said, and she laughed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

“And if she had these lovely daughters, she was forced into marrying the King of England—the .man who had slain her husband!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My husband. Father has lost all his money. I must marry so he can be rich again.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mama said that the Jews had never looked on Jesus as anything but a troublesome Yiddish boy who would not work at the carpentry trade, marry, settle down and raise a family. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I saw Khloris, that most lovely lady, whom for her beauty in the olden time Neleus wooed with countless gifts, and married. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I said apprentice, not marry,” Ash said sharply. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Love whom you will, marry your own kind. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“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 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

“I shall marry Hizdahr in the Temple of the Graces wrapped in a white tokar fringed with baby pearls. Is there anything else?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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 is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was an accomplished doctor who would treat patients in exchange for marrying their young and pretty daughters, some as young as thirteen or fourteen years old. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

A black woman and a white man were sentenced to a year in prison for marrying each other. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Slowly it dawned on me that if Grandpa Blakeslee died and left Miss Love the store, she really could marry again and let her new husband run it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

“We can get married, Amanda—if—you want,” he stammered to save face. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not the end of creation that she’s not marrying someone Haitian.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

"Her mother and father were divorced. Her mother was married again to some booze hound," I said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Seven percent of the men conceded that they were married, with a significant minority of these men reporting that they were “happily married.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

According to the unsympathetic account of Cabello Balboa, Washkar’s mother, who was apparently willing to marry her dead brother, objected to her son’s plan to marry her daughter. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She would not tell her mother that they had decided to get married. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He tried to get Judge Holman to sell Isaac South to keep me from marrying him.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

For days at a time he was capable of forgetting that he had ever been married. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

Dad married when he was twenty-one, had his first son, my brother Tony, at twenty-two. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Amaranta pretended to accept the decision and little by little she recovered from her fevers, but she promised herself that Rebeca would marry only over her dead body. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

There are no more Smeaths, they must have moved or died off, or got married. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“And this house! Maybe everything he owns! What if she has a baby, Hoyt? Did you think about that? And what if she marries again after Pa dies? Oh, Hoyt....” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

No marriage would ever bring them back to life, but if a husband could help end the slaughter, then she owed it to her dead to marry. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“She doesn’t have to marry me,” he said. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The aunties always bother Mom about getting married. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

More commonly, two states joined when their rulers married. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They had inherited some estate in Connecticut around the time her parents were married. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Another woman was setting in, a married woman, someone who was no longer my little sister. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Their father married again,” the doctor went on. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Cousin Gerrit warned Elizabeth that her father would never consent to her marrying an abolitionist. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

He taught English at a university, married, and had a son. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He is married to an American, and she lives unhappily in Germany with her in-laws. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

"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

I suddenly understand how my big sister, Mary, could have met a guy and married him five minutes later. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

If you marry this girl, you are no longer my son; you are no longer our brother. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is far simpler to be married to a Catholic than anyone from my Methodist past would believe. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Except in a story Homer and Hesiod tell, that Aglaia married Hephaestus, they are not treated as separate personalities, but always together, a triple incarnation of grace and beauty. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had known each other not quite four months when they married. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Sometime in the future, long after his mom has died, he’ll fall in love with a Jamaican woman and marry her. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“This time, if I win, you marry Vicky. One, two, three . . .” “Snake swallows ax. I win again! So long to Vicky.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

About Joseph and Mary, two kids, really, not married, who found out they were going to have a baby. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

My wife and I give consent that our daughter Jenny Elizabeth Creighton, age 16, may marry Shadrach Yale, Union soldier, under the witness of a trusted friend, Editor Ross Milton. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The single men took to stopping by her flat, the married ones to bumping into her outside her department. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

“You married like a good girl. I know.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Herbert and Florence married and moved to Harlem. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

As a way of disposing of them easily and agreeably she declared that she would marry whoever could beat her in a foot race, knowing well that there was no such man alive. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young women among them were said to have vowed not to marry a man who bought English-made goods. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed the wisdom of someone who had long been married, such as Elnora. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“We didn’t need you to tell us whom to marry, and why, and how. If it hadn’t been for your interference, I could have married that schoolteacher.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she and Zeitoun were married, he insisted that she get beyond the weight issues and eat like a normal person. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

I could hear some girls singing about the man they were gonna marry. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

In an instant I can see him living the same kind of life my father did: staying in Abnegation, learning a trade, marrying Susan, and having a family. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

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

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

It's not proper for a married couple to show affection in public. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even the lowest-born Plebeian can marry high, if he becomes a Mask. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Even Baba would probably rather I get married than pursue theater. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Whatever you do, please don’t marry a soldier. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Then she came close and said softly, “You aren’t thinking of getting married?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Quirin is married, and his wife and child live in Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

“So do you think you’ll ever meet The One and get married and have kids?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

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 will marry, and when we do, Hugo will adopt you. You will be his son." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything mechanical. When you were young, every time someone asked you what you wanted to do when you were all grown up, you said you wanted to marry Pelé. What’s happened to that dream?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

“I don’t want to have to marry right away just so I don’t have to work down Ladderal Mill.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“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

She could have married him, maybe even had her children here by now . Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“And it’s got to stop right now, see? You’re widowed from the first one and you’re going to get a divorce from the second, and then you’re going to marry me again, see?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Please. Everyone knows. It’s the hottest gossip this side of Melanie Farrow dropping out to have a baby. It’s like a Democratic presidential candidate marrying a Republican presidential candidate.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been married to Grandfather only a year before he had left to make his fortune. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Francie, will you marry me when the war’s over—if I come back?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

One married an Endicott and one an Otis. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her, “If I marry someone from my culture, that would be awesome. But if I marry someone from outside my culture, that would be awesome too.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Can you continue your marriage pep talk another day? I swear I won’t run off and marry a heathen tonight.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

“As I would be if I married my love.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And once in the new country, arriving in Seattle, she found she had married a pauper. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

His son will never settle down or marry or have children or forgive his father for his betrayal. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Charlotte and Morrie, who met as students, had been married forty-four years. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never was married as far as I know. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we married, I would try to imagine that he was almost as young as his teeth. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

City girls don’t marry so young, so if my real parents had been with me, I don’t think they would have wanted me to marry. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I apologize if I unintentionally raised your expectations, but I’ve resolved never to marry.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“Our habits of expense make us too dependent, and there are not many in my rank of life who can afford to marry without some attention to money.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Other than helping Frank, Emma spent the years of her life after Charles’s death much as she had the years before she married him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

After his release from captivity in 1948, Henry Metelmann spent a short time in Germany and then returned to Britain, where he married, had two children, and worked on the railways. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

We said to each other that we were married the first day she had come to the hospital and we counted months from our wedding day. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense! and what sort of an effect will the bequest have on you? Will it keep you in England, induce you to marry Miss Oliver, and settle down like an ordinary mortal?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Mother meant the other kind of chest, like a steamer trunk, in which a girl was supposed to put everything she hoped she’d get to use one day after she got married. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tabitha was reaching maturity, and I knew that soon men would be coming to ask to marry her, too. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

All of them, of course, were happy at the thought that they might marry a wife who had such a clever and unusual child. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“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

But Grandma had been married to a landlord and Mom was in trouble because of Dad. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the people assumed that Penelope was a widow and could and should marry again. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Goodness, you must begin at once. You’re so pretty, Ash, you can’t expect to be a maid forever. Whom do you wish to marry?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Pollard promised her that once he was established, he would send for her and they would marry. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Neither of them ever married, not least because of their close-up views of the matrimonial fates of their siblings. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

In March of that year, she married again. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But Mr. Stubbs said, “Now, now, Mrs. Stubbs is upset and off her feed about our boy, Junior. He’s lost all his judgment and wants to marry a Eubanks.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My dear Mr. Bennet,” replied his wife, “how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

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

The reasons people marry the people they do are not always evident to those involved. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She was aware that her mother was already on the lookout for a suitable match, though Aurelia would not be expected to marry until she was thirteen, or even fourteen if she was lucky. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s a genetic thing. The doctor I went to says it happens in little villages. Where everyone marries each other.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Since Francie had five years in which to make up her mind, the responsibility of deciding whether or not to marry Ben did not weigh too heavily upon her. 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

Carry us, marry us, ferry us, bury us: those are our four ways to exodus, for now. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Looks to me like the cons have it. Why'd you marry me?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He expected her to marry, to stay close to home, and to honor her family. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“No, I’m serious. Gentlemen are rare. They’re like virgins or leprechauns. If I ever get married, I’m going to marry one.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Some of them had been married, far older, fathers to children in secondary school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I ran away when I heard my sass and sassur plotting to get rid of me so my husband could marry again and get another dowry.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The people talk right now. They say, look! Roza and Finn! Together! Maybe they go kiss! Maybe they get married!” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Speak to Lizzy about it yourself. Tell her that you insist upon her marrying him.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She expressed no regret about her decision to marry him, and when Charles visited Maer, she felt happy and in love. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think that being witty will make the Prince of Denmark—or any man—want to marry you?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They did not kill the girl, though: the chief’s son married her and she became a very good wife for him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

That was extreme, of course, but how about her friend’s cousin who, married away into the countryside, was made to take baths in a big copper vat? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They put her to bed and sent for her married daughter from up around Ocala to come see about her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

His mother, who never married, works for a rich old lady in a shorefront mansion. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that’s the guy she was going to marry but didn’t.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

“Me, I try an American when I come, to marry. But he bring many problems, no job, and every day he say give me money, money, money,” Aisha said, shaking her head. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Polygamists are people who marry more than one person,”’ Klaus explained. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

You figured most of them would probably marry dopey guys. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

One tree on the lawn was still full of leaves, red and orange, like the tent in which he had married Twinkle. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Burt was forty years old and married to a girl half his age of whom he was insanely jealous. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere between the television saying "I thought you died in the car crash" and "I love you too much to let you marry him," I heard a key being pushed into the deadbolt. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

If Sally had not been married, or if his father were not such a baseball fan, it would have been a good time to talk. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was married and had a daughter who was a dancer with the San Francisco Ballet. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I hoped soon she'd be able to rope someone into marrying her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

So I discovered the next plan to get rid of us: marry us off here without waiting until China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

At the end, the sheriff marries the woman who owns the saloon, which is a watering hole for humans but not horses. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The Ladybug, who had been haunted all her life by the fear that her house was on fire and her children all gone, married the Head of the Fire Department and lived happily ever after. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Elizabeth Darwin did not marry or have children; she was a loving and attentive aunt to her nieces and nephews and took care of elderly people at the workhouse in Cambridge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My three sisters were married long before I was. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

From careful watching, they’d read his name tag; from Davis’s wedding band, they knew he was married. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like I’m getting married or anything. He just asked to carry my books.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Don’t it beat all how a man that good-lookin’ would marry a wife that plain?” said one of the farm women, who’d have known a thing or two about plainness. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They would be allowed to marry in another year. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

They just got married so she could stay there and keep house.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My parents were never really married, by which I mean they never bothered making their relationship official with any church. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“But how can you marry somebody you don’t know anything about?” 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

Even though my father and mother were never married, I assumed he left my mom because he didn’t have a job at the time and he couldn’t afford to take care of me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She had a fiance and would one day marry, on which occasion the responsibility of her beauty would become her husband’s. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

After spending a lot of time with her for the past months, Vincent has decided he wants to marry her. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

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

“What are your big dreams? I mean, besides wanting to marry an Arab prince?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“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

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

And he said quickly, “We will be married in a great church.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are those two married over there—leaning on each other?” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Maybe my mother, having grown up without a father, was trying to marry one. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

Right then, I knew I would marry this man. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting in the leather armchair that we bought from Heal’s just after we got married—it was the first piece of furniture we got as a married couple: soft tan buttery leather, expensive, luxurious. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young men who wanted to marry her had to do a morning’s hoeing in her garden. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you in love with someone else? Is that why you refuse to marry this man?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Another was married and had six children and did not talk with his hands. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In eugenics lessons, children were taught that Aryans should marry only healthy Aryans. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dunlap, who was maybe perfectly happy or perfectly miserable, married with kids or a bachelor. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa is getting married to a nice lady with groovy makeup and clothes. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

He was twenty yards off when she called his name and asked if he would marry her before leaving. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

With Viola married and Gerry grown, I found myself sleeping on the couch in the living room. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Haupt didn't want to have to marry her, which was what his parents and her parents would expect. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Hung over and feverish, Lefty told himself that his sister was right: it was time for him to get married. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

“But I thought you told me he was married,” Miss Inez said while she was putting the cakes in a box. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“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

Probably not too hot, since she married a man who looked like a chipped-tooth turtle. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I’m really glad she decided not to get married at Scatterpin! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Hensleigh had married a cousin from the other side of his family in 1832, the year Charles left on the voyage. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Nothing you said changes anything. I want us to marry.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The most disappointing part of that piece of knowledge was that he was not going to fall in love with Mrs. Cadaver and marry her and take her away. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“We will, Father. And we will be married now. Kino has said so.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Me, what do I know? Whoever marries you will win a lottery, honestly. By the way, what did you say happened to you and Ifemelu? I so liked her.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

He had pledged himself to marry a daughter of Walder Frey, but she saw his true bride plain before her now: the sword he had laid on the table. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

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

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

And they especially discouraged the much younger nephew from marrying her. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

She said something like, “Of course I’ll marry you,” while batting her eyelids. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Eventually Sissy met another man who wanted to marry her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hadn’t you rather have her marry a rich man?” asked Jo, as her mother’s voice faltered a little over the last words. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She had a son, Ullr, before she married Thor, and Thor is Ullr’s stepfather. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

He cleared his throat and added that Miss Armstrong was marrying him, in fact. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I asked you to marry me and you never gave me an answer,” he says as he stirs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

It’s a fact, you’ll marry the one you share it with. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After marrying Morrison, Tillie grew suspicious of him, especially after Morrison was overheard talking about the effects of the poison strychnine. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Clara, who from the very start had objected to the idea of marrying Blanca off against her will, decided not to attend the party. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

For Joe, all this marrying meant another new home and another adjustment. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“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

I need him to insist that I’m useful and good, that he wasn’t out of his mind to marry me, that my white skin is not the standard of offense. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“Never mind: I came here to inquire, not to confess. Is it known that Mr. Rochester is to be married?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

But interracial dating, particularly with a married white woman, was for many whites, an unconscionable act. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He wonders if he will be married again one day, if he will ever have a child to name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was never the kind of girl who had crushes on rock stars or fantasies about marrying Brad Pitt. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she wanted him to seem sad at the thought that they would never marry. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

It reminds her of their life together, of the unexpected life he, in choosing to marry her, had given her here, which she had refused for so many years to accept. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few months I had asked her to marry me and she accepted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her husband says I should marry, but she wants to keep me as her maid.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

My oldest brother, Tony, drove rigs, hauling gravel or scrap, trying to scrape together enough money to marry the girl down the road. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

She married young and went away and thereafter was seen only at funerals. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘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

“Whom will she marry, then, with all this expense?” said Wang Lung, struck with admiration and horror at such pouring out of wealth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“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

Who Flung had taken her to a shabby room in a shabby house in a shabby street and promised to marry her next day. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the winter of 2005, once the dowry was settled, we were considered married in the eyes of the Dinka tribe. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Orange. That’s who I’m going to marry. Someone who likes orange.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In 1884, two years after his first wife died, abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass married a white woman, Helen Pitts. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I said I could only marry after my husband was buried,” Lady Meng said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Smart apprentices were always getting ahead by marrying into their masters’ families. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got any call to think you was go’n marry him?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I had this whole speech worked out, about how I didn’t want a boyfriend and never planned on marrying, but I didn’t end up using it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

“My sister say it is true. Igbo marry Igbo always,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

How is it that I finally came out and let him marry me? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“I guess I got to get used to my mama getting married, Squeezie,” Peaches said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are married in our grove a week later, under the chuppah at twilight. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Our little house used to be a shack, until my mom married my dad and made him fix it up. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

He had continued to come to the fiesta each year after he was married. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I had been traveling for years, had my girlfriends, and I was ready for getting married. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had an aunt who went as far as divorcing her husband and briefly marrying an American family friend so that she could get a green card. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My father, the most adorable father I’ve ever seen, didn’t marry my mother until he was thirty-six and she was twenty-five. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They talk, real familiar, about Wilfred’s new job and how well Wesley’s doing in school and the girl Philbert’s probably going to marry. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Legend said that the boy who retrieved your wreath downstream was the boy you would marry. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He said he wasn’t planning to get married or have any children. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

The sort of thing grooms wear to get married in, here in the Capitol. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He quit, though, when he married my mother. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

This thinking would apply to everything in my life: when I married while writing this book, it was because Henrietta wanted someone to take care of me while I worked. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

“I wonder he didn’t marry her and get all the property,” said I. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Same way she got to get used to it if you get married.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But even when it came to talks of dating or future spouses, my sister and I were never pressured to marry someone Iranian. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was on her way to becoming a lawyer when she met a guy and got married and dropped out of school. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“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

Olive did marry her young man and did move, first to Paso Robles, then to King City, and finally to Salinas. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

But if he were to marry one of the Horner girls, or anyone else, he could see the obligations ahead, whereas if he remained single, he would be freer to pursue his science. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You can even take your servant with you after you marry. I know how fond you are of her. I just want us to be sisters in the eyes of the gods." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“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

“Fathers shouldn’t attempt to marry their daughters off to noblemen when there’s a handsome blacksmith nearby,” Kaede said, pulling a face. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was not as poor as these other two, as he had married the daughter of a rich man. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“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

I wanted Maribel to grow up and get married and have children and friends and find meaning in her life. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

Wear the new blue dress because he meant to marry her right from the train. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Soon they were setting off for England, to be married. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

We were married in a civil ceremony requiring only signatures and a witness at the Native Commissioner’s Court in Johannesburg, for we could not afford a traditional wedding or feast. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Each time he broke off with one of his young mistresses and returned to her side, he demanded that she marry him, in a desperate attempt to hang on to her love and find forgiveness. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

People lose jobs, move, get married and unmarried, get sick, fall behind on bills, have more kids. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

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

They were silent for a while, then Mace added, “Or like they all are in the country, bonkers from marrying too close.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That evening Marie came by to see me and asked me if I wanted to marry her. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Yet he wanted to marry her and she was a slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And what kind of man you think you married?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I do not object to marrying well,” Clara said simply, and looked at Ash curiously. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you let Sunny go,” she said finally, “I will marry you.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“No. St. John, I will not marry you. I adhere to my resolution.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

My baap, like all fathers with a daughter to marry off, had to find a dowry for me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

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

They got married, moved to Bayside, and had Dad and Uncle Ben. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“But she married him,” I said, genuinely confused. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody can reason with Mom—not even Dad, when they were married. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

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

Then, while she was drying herself, the stranger begged her, with his eyes full of tears, to marry him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I saw what I had to do so I would not have to marry Arnold. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gross! Isn’t that what people do when they get married?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

One day Maxine asks him if his parents want him to marry an Indian girl. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“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

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

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

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

“In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere. He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry, my son will find a good woman and he will not send you away after he marries.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And to us, we’re more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

With therapy, counseling, meds, she’d recover, get a job, marry, have children. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

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

He said it didn't matter if a guy was married or not. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s the same thing. But when someone says a woman is jamona it means she’s too old to get married. It’s an insult.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He would marry her only if she agreed to allow him to execute a simple abortion. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I married very young. Everybody wanted Marlon so how could I say no?” she said, half teasing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

“Sounds like what would happen if pizza and jazz got married....” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

To try to throw them off my plan, I told them that, yes, maybe I would be willing to marry this man the next year. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

"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

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

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 turned a page to see a picture of Nat King Cole and “the tall, beautiful Maria Ellington”—whom he was going to marry and make Maria Cole. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

He asked the guard if he would like to marry me. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t tell anything by a man’s being married. But I should think a married man would want to get back to his wife,” I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

Jaime closed his eyes and inhaled with difficulty, forcing himself to contain the wild feelings that made him want to kill his brother, to run and marry Amanda himself, to weep in impotence and disappointment. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I don’t know what it would be like to be thirteen and married. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

How she could come to me if I marry him and he be so love struck with her I could figure out a way for us to run away. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Like me! Sugah, at that time in my life I thought any boy who didn’t ask me to marry them was both physically and emotionally sick.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

For that reason we couldn’t actually get legally married right away. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And hadn't Buddy said, as if to revenge himself for my digging out the car and his having to stand by, "I wonder who you'll marry now, Esther." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Nine days from that day, on the isle of Barri, Frey and Gerd met for the first time, and they married in a field of waving barley. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

"Why shouldn't we rule ourselves again? It was the dragons we married, and the dragons are all dead!" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were married on July 11, 1970, about a year after his graduation, in a morning wedding Mass followed by a reception at a catering hall in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

He learned that Rameel was married to a British woman named Isadora, and that they had two children together, Ezra, a daughter, and Micah, a son. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I did not love her and did not want to marry her. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved his son, and Kermit had his whole life ahead of him and was engaged to be married. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

"Fifteen years. Then I come back and got married." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I have a sudden, horrifying thought: What if she only married him because she was supposed to, as part of her mission in the city? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

If he could fight all the men of Ireland why couldn’t he marry all the women? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

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

His father had died of stomach cancer; his mother had gone to live in Fresno, where Kabuo’s sister had married a furniture merchant. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I think my aunt accepts the idea of my marrying you because any children we have will be light. Lighter than I am, anyway. She always said I was a little too ‘highly visible.’” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

I didn’t want to marry that older man for a lot of reasons. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Thinking that the worldly Cristiana might understand Gertrude’s behavior, I mused aloud to her as we sat stitching, “How could the queen marry the brother of her dead husband?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

That's one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

She was the protector of marriage, and married women were her peculiar care. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Blanca grew up she never shook it but embraced God even more, and now she needed something her church couldn’t deliver—some sucker to marry a girl from Colombia. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They suddenly decided to get married and there it was. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not illegal or anything. First cousins can marry even. We’re only second cousins. Milton went and looked up all the statutes.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

He was her business manager and agent, and also happened to be married to her mother. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I believe, if Emerson were alive now, Ms. Jacobs would want to marry him, the way she talks about him all the time. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

"Yes—I'm grateful I never have to marry." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“And you will not marry me! You adhere to that resolution?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m happy for them,” Blanca interrupted, “but they shouldn’t just get married.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He said that his parents—my grandparents—were married in 1945. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We began our courtship in 1961 but were together six years before we tied the knot because it wasn’t legal for whites and blacks to marry until sixty-seven. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“He was married to my mother. He’s the twins’ father!” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

If Grandpa could go get married, maybe I could go fishing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

All the kings of the country round about had tried to persuade her to marry them with no success. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the time came for her to marry, Father would arrange the bride-price. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He starts a store, a sort of five-and-dime; he marries and fathers four attractive children; he receives a Medal of Freedom from President Bush, after which he promptly dies, making way for the eulogies. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

After I got married, my husband and I moved back to Newark. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But I had to obey—wanted to obey—hated to harm him—wanted to marry him. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, you can marry someone who’s an American citizen and receive a green card through your spouse. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was determined to remain married and it was the least he owed her, to remain married. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“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

“I only seek some wisdom for when I shall be married,” I said, affecting carelessness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When she was only five years old, she was asked by her relatives if she planned to get married in a red sari or a white gown. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I myself used to wonder why Loma didn’t find some more actors to run off with—a thing she wanted to do—instead of marrying Campbell Williams just to spite her daddy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

And the “Ms.” is probably an unmarried “Ms.” because no one would marry a miserable person like that. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Why, to eat our fill, and to marry, and for the sons we shall beget.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be married to you.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When Winnie had first told him of the marriage, he had exclaimed, “But you are marrying a jailbird!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The American soldier promises to come back and marry the girl. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

They were told not to “mix their blood” by marrying non-Aryans. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

“If he asks you to marry him, say no,” Chantal says as she drops her heavy book bag on the floor and takes off her coat. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The older one might marry the baby in the stroller, who’s trying to jam his straw into his juice box. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Would that mean God preordained them to marry no matter what? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was all right to ask her because she was going to marry his partner. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Nurse Duckett had decided to marry a doctor—any doctor, because they all did so well in business— and would not take chances in the vicinity of the man who might someday be her husband. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Kate said once she hoped he’d marry soon, and I quite agree with her that it would be well for him. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“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

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

“He may have been married already, and her cruel mortification may have been a part of her half-brother’s scheme,” said Herbert. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

They agreed to marry and go ’way up north, where Cholly said steel mills were begging for workers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When I told Mrs. Nielsen that Dutchy had asked me to marry him, she frowned. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They kept company for a little while, became engaged, and were married in Katie’s church on New Year’s Day, nineteen hundred and one. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I’m asking you to marry me, you little fool.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

That was about all I knew about it—and that we could get an education there and no one would force us to marry. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, yes. But they marry earlier and earlier these days. What is the use of a degree, they ask me, when we cannot find a job after graduation?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“I guess so. I guess there wasn’t a young buck in the county didn’t get the marrying fever.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You wouldn’t be able to see your family anyhow, if you got married,” Rosa said, understanding Nhamo’s sudden look of dismay. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Who will marry me? No one wants a girl who is not a virgin.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“They’re like twenty-eight. They live in Chicago. They are both married to very fancy lawyer dudes. Or banker dudes. I can’t remember. You have siblings?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

If I were to marry, I would not grow old with my husband. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He tried to warn Dreiser: “If you marry now—and a conventional and narrow woman at that, one older than you, you’re gone.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Soon after, Mother married Daddy Clidell, who turned out to be the first father I would know. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fall in love, marry, and stay together until one of them dies. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Root also married a daughter of the stockyards, but his experience was darker. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

For instance, why didn’t you marry Mr. Son Black? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Now, among the Dinka, a man can abduct a girl when she is walking alone, and then she has to marry him. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kind that nobody ever wants to marry. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They had discovered a fiendish plot involving marrying Violet and stealing the Baudelaire fortune. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I was a bride, promenading down the center aisle of San Juan Evangelista twenty years back to marry the man with whom I would have our dear children, dearer than my life. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

“People don’t have fortunes left them in that style nowadays, men have to work and women marry for money. It’s a dreadfully unjust world,” said Meg bitterly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am no longer the Igbo woman you wanted to marry who would taint the lineage with infidel blood,” Olanna said, as they climbed into Mohammed’s red Porsche. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Since the 1980s, Gottman has brought more than three thousand married couples—just like Bill and Sue—into that small room in his “love lab” near the University of Washington campus. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

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

Not to mention, I was two months shy of turning nineteen—the age she was when she married my dad. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

As they got older, their love for each other developed; they were married in 1948. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

‘You made me wait so long to get married, I’ve turned into an old woman!’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I know that he’s married to a white woman now . . . and he’s fat as a hog from eating hog. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where will I find a man who will marry a widow? And who will take your place here and pay so much rent?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before my mom was married, she was strolling around Tehran with her female cousin. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The ability to marry and pass as a normal woman in society are also important goals, both of which will not be possible without feminizing surgery and hormone treatment. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She flipped forward and pointed at, “Please marry me.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“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

They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her mother said she wasn’t strong enough in spirit, didn’t have a real calling, should wait to see if she got married. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to Gertrude I only said, “Perhaps the lady waits for the poet to marry her before granting him anything.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

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

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

He married Tipper and kept her in the kitchen and the garden. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“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

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

He could not first marry her, knowing very well that he should not have done so, and now, with a child, want to leave her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

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

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

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

There was only one solution: she would divorce her husband and marry his nephew. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Rickets asked why some of the white children objected to going to school with us, Sammy Dean replied: “Well, it’s racial, marrying each other.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

“When you left for Chicago, Dante told me that someday he wanted to marry another boy.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

“And that is something that I would like you to have, even if your parents are not enthused about the idea. Do you know why I gave my daughter permission to marry your father?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I see. I thought, perhaps, you might be going to be married.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When Gramps asked Gram to marry him, she said, “Do you have a dog?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

As Ucho had pointed out so often, who would want to marry the Loathsome One? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Zoe didn’t like the idea of marrying someone either so religious or so diminutive. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She left a good-bye note indicating that her affair had nothing to do with why she didn’t want to marry him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

The message I get from it is that if it were lawful, there’d be a wholesale rush to marry Negroes. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise’s gleanings of adult morals and mores to date were few, but enough: it was possible to have a baby without being married, she knew that. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“We have extra space! You could move here and live with us! I mend all his clothes right now, but that could be your job when you marry him.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“There’s no way to be married except by church or state. We are married privately. You see, darling, it would mean everything to me if 1 had any religion. But I haven’t any religion.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

He’d gone to visit his father after the Time and found that he’d fallen in love with another woman and was going to marry her. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Peewee got a letter from Earlene that said she still loved him even though she married somebody else. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He did not know that she had seen her own destiny, that she had summoned him with the power of her thought, and that she had already made up her mind to marry without love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Well, I kept working for the man who would one day became your zeide. After several months, he said to me, ‘Will you marry me?’ Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

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

“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

After a few moments of silence, she said, “You’re not good enough to marry my brother, anyway.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“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

When it is resumed, in the next chapter, so to speak, the maidens are being married to their cousins and their father is presiding at the marriage feast. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he hadn’t written to her yet, and probably had already decided not to marry her, the shock of her marrying someone else so soon was unsettling to him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This had occurred due to these latter two persons deciding to marry one another and leave the profession. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

"I will not let my son marry a grocer's daughter!" he vowed. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You tell them. They listen to you because you their Igbo sister. Any one is okay. I want marry.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We’re not getting married, Kojo. Under current law, the minimum age of marriage in this state is eighteen. We’re both twelve. Case closed. Do you have your note from your mom and dad?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I will at least choose—her I love best. Jane, will you marry me?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

“Daddy used to make them wait until corn shucking or Christmas to marry,” Rufus told me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“I just woke up feeling like I don’t want to get married. All this pain, all this pain in my arm makes it seem so impossible somehow.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“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

I wouldn’t marry a man I hated or despised. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Getting married has done you a world of good,” she said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad swam after Mom, and right there in the water, he told her he was going to marry her. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Hugo married Felicia at city hall the week of the Cuban missile crisis. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Just thinking it made her feel a strange fluttering inside, even though they were not to marry for years and years. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“But be careful with that,” I said, nodding at the paper, “because if you text me too much, you’ll have to marry me. It’s the rules of my religion.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

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 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

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

“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

“They got married in a Catholic church. Wicked, disobedient children!” 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

The captain had relented and let Alyona marry the first mate. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

For it might have occurred to us that a Cooper might not have wanted to marry our sister, good friends though we all were. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father had to pay many cows to her male relatives as a sign of his respect before he could marry her and give their children his name. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

After leaving the monastic order to marry Ma, Pa joined the police force. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

"He said, `See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner,'" Peeta says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

“I’m not...uh. I couldn’t marry him. I’m from very far away.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They never seem to have boyfriends, but they always marry. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

If they did, neither the man nor the woman would be allowed to marry again. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, he'd wanted to marry Grover, so he couldn’t have been all that bright about the whole male/female thing. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was Anna, who was married to Crocodile Guts, the boatman. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ma, I told you my reasons for getting married this way,” Caroline said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“Did you hear me? Tell them that nobody’s medicine will work on my son. He will not marry an abnormal woman, unless you kill me first. Only over my dead body!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Would you,” he asked, “marry a woman who chased you with a hatchet?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

What do you suppose he said to his mistresses when he wouldn't marry them? The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

"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

“Chicago is like the man who marries a woman with a ready-made family of twelve,” he said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

I mean, didn’t you think for a while at least that they really were married? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Either you marry me now or we never see each other again.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nigel said you and him was married. I didn’t believe it.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

"We expected your father would marry a Muslim girl we chose for him," Patti tells me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Ucho’s announcement that he was to marry me was like that last blanket. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

Every night after that, the king marries a young woman and kills her in the morning. 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

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

Of course, it would be five more years before he’d be in a position to marry, he said. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

G’ma obviously loved him enough to marry him, and Dad’s always saying, “William, your grandmother is a queen. Never forget it.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

And he wondered whether he had baptized Kino’s baby, or married him for that matter. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That means I shall have to get married.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She never married or went anywhere even on her days off. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

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

“When you asked for my hand a few minutes ago, I was still too young to marry.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn't let them see, or they'd marry her to Joffrey and make her lay with him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

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 then she remembered that they were married now. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“When I marry her,” he went on more calmly, “she tells me she’s a divorced woman. Now it turns out she’s not.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you don’t think you want to marry me, please don’t put it in a letter. 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

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

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

From gay people who hoped to be able to legally marry and from Republicans who felt he was ruining the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They would allow no woman to be forced to marry against her will they told the newcomers, nor would they surrender any suppliant, no matter how feeble, and no matter how powerful the pursuer. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is my maa and baap and my brothers and our cow, which we had to sell so I could marry you. This is our marketplace, where my baap has a stall to write letters.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

She nearly didn’t marry him because it was said that people with angular hairlines often have very troubled lives. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

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

Heck, I might even grow to love him, but the thought of marrying a Bengali man? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mom got one soon after she married my dad. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

“Though you can’t see it,” my mother said, “a red string around your ankle ties you to the person you’ll marry. He’s already been born, and he’s on the other end of the string.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course! He’s grand! But Mary says she won’t marry a sailing man!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the story of a poor girl who is forced to marry a fisherman from a neighboring beach, though she loves someone else. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And God wouldn't lead you to kiss a girl unless you were supposed to marry her, so God wants you to marry the girl who believed I was a Frenchman suffering from hemorrhoidal Tourette's?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

They got married and had children while they were still children themselves. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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’s not about where I wish to settle, and you know it. And who’s the selfish one? You only want me to marry him because it would be good for you.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Most queens have no purpose but to warm some king’s bed and pop out sons for him. If that’s the sort of queen you mean to be, best marry Hizdahr.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’s a former marine who came to the country with an occupation force years back, but once the troops left, he stayed on, marrying a rich Dominican lady and opening his successful grocery store. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Breanna, would you rather be completely alone for the rest of your life, or marry a guy?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

If your mother had married a proper decent Limerickman you wouldn’t have this standing up, North of Ireland, Presbyterian hair. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ah wants to see you married right away.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Even Susan B. Anthony chose to express her anger and disappointment at Stone’s choice to marry by referring to her as Mrs. Henry Blackwell. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“He’s using her, Jade. They’ve been engaged for, what, three years? That man is not marrying her. He is living off her.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Why not just tell her, and marry who you want?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

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

Mama had worked as a dietician in Washington after she was married. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m still a little scared about Mama getting married,” Peaches said afterward. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Improve that voice,” she had instructed my mother, “or else you’ll never marry her off. Even the fool half ghosts won’t have her.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I hadn’t thought at all about the literal act, the moment of asking, though of course the idea of being married to her was something I’d considered since the beginning. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, everyone talked about him not being married. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Heaven knows what the poor woman thought when she eventually heard the Berlioz piece at a Paris concert and read the programme notes, although it didn’t prevent her from marrying him three years later. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She had no liking for men except as companions in the hunt and she was determined never to marry. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I asked her to marry me we’d been together for only three months, the entire time she had been in the city since moving from El Paso. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m worried about David Martin and Mary. Did you know David wants to marry her?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

God help Miss Love Simpson if she really had gone off and married Grandpa against her will—against Aunt Loma’s will, I mean. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Her father wanted her to marry a pagan king but she said, I’ll go away for awhile, three years, and think about it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“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

Maybe it was stupid, but I resented him for going on that ocean voyage, for not having the guts to marry my mom. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

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'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

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

At Ole Miss, Hilly and I roomed together for two years before she left to get married and I stayed on to graduate. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Even though I was very afraid that my uncle would make me marry the older man, I couldn’t stay at the compound. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 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

My uncle wanted to marry Mama, but Sharia also gave her the right to refuse his offer, which she did. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anna was a financial burden on her father, so a bishop persuaded her to marry a rich farmer as his second wife. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She needed a steady man who could marry her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I want to be a sculptor, and I want to marry your sister. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gram is buried in the aspen grove where she and Gramps were married. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Your stepfather, he bought her a big gold watch after he married me and she left to go home to North Carolina. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"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

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

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

“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

The teachers are mostly women over a certain age, women who aren’t married. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

“But they cain’t marry for a year or more. I don’t see why Pa couldn’t wear an armband for Ma.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

“If this was twenty years ago, I’d a already married her.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

St. John is unmarried: he never will marry now. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then Mr. Burnside signals to his wife, and apparently they communicate in that telepathic way that married couples sometimes do, because she comes up behind me and gently takes the backpack. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

Well, he did not marry the princess, if that is what you mean by happily ever after. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Why, for example—especially knowing the family as I do—I should want to marry your sister is a great mystery to me. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“How did you get Dwayne to agree? To hold off on marrying, I mean?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I told her everything. Even about you and Kevin being married. Especially about that.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

After Palestine, when the cotton was in, baled and spoken for, Joe got married and worked even harder. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was a child when I got married,” Lillian said, returning to her coffee. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We fought over everything: who could control the TV remote, whose turn it was to use the phone, and who had dibs on marrying Leonardo DiCaprio. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was trying to imagine how to begin the conversation—how to tell her she shouldn’t marry my brother—when she spoke. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Certainly, sugah. Two Marines asked me to marry them before your father. Those were good days for me. I was looking and feeling good. Your mama was a dancing, finger-snapping, riding-in-fast-cars girl, you better believe.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘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

He felt married to her, that was all. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Daily she repeated this rule for me: “A lady must always aim to please—first, the queen she serves, and second, the man she will marry.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

Sally says she likes being married because now she gets to buy her own things when her husband gives her money. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Do you mean, how would I like my sister to marry him?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"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

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

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

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

“If I understand your brother, he only means so far as your having some thoughts of marrying. He had no idea of me. He seems perfectly unprepared for that.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The girl that married dear old Dad was Mom. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Why had Dr. Fanning, who was tall and somewhat handsome, married this plain, bucktoothed woman? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Watching his father sleep, the face relaxed in slumber, all the harsh lines of age less defined, he remembered hearing that people who had been married a long time began to resemble each other. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That he had married and was joining his wife in heaven. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She didn't understand why he wanted to marry her now. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Richard said that they would marry as soon as he had saved some money. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

At some point my mom moved to a separate bedroom in the house, and from then on they were married in name only, not even cohabitating but coexisting. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

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

“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

It was while he was full of such dreams, his body already feeling the rough work clothes, his hands already curved to the pick handle, that he spoke to Nel about getting married. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“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

In 1853, at age fifteen, Victoria married a twenty-eight-year-old physician, Canning Woodhull, thinking he would be her ticket to a better life. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“What do they call a man who never marries?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

And here Tateh wanted to divorce her so he could marry his fat girlfriend, this woman who was bigger and taller than him and who wasn’t even Jewish. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“Well yeah, if his essential agreements include dictating my life into being a copy of his. I don’t want to marry a Linda and live like a coconut. Brown on the outside, white inside.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“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

“She talks about you all the time. She thinks we should be married in the summer.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

Both of them overburdened and ill-equipped, weak by nature or circumstance, married to strong-willed, selfish men, addicted to the opiate of sleep. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

But he did not want the complication of marrying her for his papers; one day she would wake up and convince herself that it had never been merely for papers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

“I’m not going to do that. I’m going to keep my name, Nancy Saldivia, and my friends can always call me Blanca. The only time I’ll change my name is when I get married.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Some kind of silent communication married people share. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

If the Lord hasn’t got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that’s His business. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He announced what was supposed to happen: “Naomi, we ought to marry.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I wanted to marry her too.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

His parents came from western Massachusetts and married young. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“You! Get married a second time! You must be pulling my leg; how could they have said that to you, Mama. Didn’t they see who they were talking to?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He never gave up hope that one day he would persuade her to marry him. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

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

But he had also promised to marry Maria, a woman of fifty, who was the widow of a “very prominent Mexican banker.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Hamlet and I were married in our rustic attire, with woodland flowers to deck us. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

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

Mom heaved the dramatic sigh of a mother from an Indian movie whose daughter desires to marry a simple peasant instead of the rich, suitable suitor. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

If he suffers then he deserves to suffer, marrying a young girl like you not ten months afterwards. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“How did you know I wanted to marry any one?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“She married Gene Farmer right out of high school, I think,” she said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

To Mikhail, she said, “Take the three of them to the guest suites. They can stay next to that idiot bogatyr who thinks I’m going to marry him.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Turned out, before she was married, she was a music teacher. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know how you feel, Julie. I was married last year,” Pearl began. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Typically, after five or six years of school, girls simply dropped out, because there seemed to be no point in continuing their education: Their fate was to marry young and produce children. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In this same war movie, the American soldier goes home and he falls to his knees asking another girl to marry him. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It wasn’t wrong to marry someone you didn’t like, it just wasn’t right either. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Beers? What family did you marry into, O’Brien? Vino, vino!” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

Idunn was married to Bragi, god of poetry, and she was sweet and gentle and kind. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

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

"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 then, “I suppose that’s why you married me,” I said, “you knew I was dull and quiet and inexperienced, so that there would never be any gossip about me.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid told her children they must help her keep their father from marrying another woman because she didn’t think she could take it any better than her sister had. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s been trying to marry me off and get me ‘settled down’ for years. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“I can’t stop people from saying things if they want to,” he had said, “but circumstances make it impossible for me to marry, while I consider that having a mistress is no good.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were bright with pleasure—“Rosencrantz will be allowed to marry me!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Sometimes at night he lay awake imagining her face and form, and wondering why such a woman would ever want to marry him, of all the princes in the world. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“All the noblemen will want to marry you,” I said with certainty. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“When I married her I was told I was the luckiest man in the world,” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had, in the years since they got married, grown an intemperate dislike of single women and an intemperate love of God. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I want marry. They love me but they say the family want Igbo woman. Because Igbo marry Igbo always.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Marcos sank into a deep depression that lasted two or three days, at the end of which he announced that he would never marry and that he was embarking on a trip around the world. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

“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

She was almost sixteen and would marry in two years. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

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

“Formerly,” I answered, “because you did not love me; now, I reply, because you almost hate me. If I were to marry you, you would kill me. You are killing me now.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t escape the curse by marrying Char. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Not that I’m thinking of marrying him, mind you. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Everything, from their love of beauty and mystery, to their fascinating habit of getting married when they were only eleven years old, made good stuff to talk about. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine goddess, Athena. A shame she pledged never to marry. All right, half-blood. I can tell you what you want to know. But there is a price. I need a favor done.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

“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

He wanted to ask her to marry him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, she married Gabe Ugliano, who was nice the first thirty seconds we knew him, then showed his true colors as a world-class jerk. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Hari’s parents were ashamed to admit before this dignified man that they had married so young and so sick a son to get money. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whitiker sent Nicholas to live with his father, a laborer who had married, had other children, and lived on the other side of town. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“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

“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

My third son, Murugan, who was a servant, married a girl from the town in which he worked. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The educated and affluent are more likely than others to have their children while married. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

So what did he let you marry his daughter for? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank was married to a woman named Amy, whom they loved; they could not wait for the baby. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He had stuck up for her when she wanted to marry Papa. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Then don’t be too technical, darling. I’ll marry you as soon as I’m thin again.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

“But when he saw her, he wanted to marry her?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She thought he was playing, but things only got worse after they married. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

So to me the idea of getting married seemed like quite an enormous step. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Save the preaching, good father. Make haste to marry us, and God will reward you.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“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

She could look into your eyes and tell you the name of the person you would marry. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Moniek married, and he and his wife, Erica, reared two sons before retiring to Florida. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

We are in love and are going to be married.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But I was very ready to explore whether I was ready to get married to Dan.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

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

I nursed a worthless pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I’d never marry one. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

While it was true that she had grown accustomed to the privileges that came with marrying into the Puente family, Lourdes never accepted the life designated for its women. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, papa, if this is not encouragement to marry, I do not know what is. And I should never have expected you to be lending your sanction to such vanity-baits for poor young ladies.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Even when all you want to do is travel? Or marry the daughter of a textile merchant?” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Jerome knew little about me when we got married. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“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

And I had married one of the the prettiest. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean, ‘’e was going to be married?”’ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Shortly after marrying, he began working as an apprentice machinist in a small factory that produced handblown glass bottles of all sizes. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

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

He wished that they were a married couple of ten years’ standing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

One reason they give him for not marrying me is cause I have children. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They got married at a very, very young age. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“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

Amma says he was scared their different religions would be a big problem; Hindus and Muslims don't often marry each other. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“I know. I tell you that boy did well not to marry his cousin.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even if you get to marry the prince, you still wake up in the morning with your mouth tasting like drain cleaner and your hair all flat on one side. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I would’ve liked to have known her, a wild horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn’t marry. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

I thought of the boys back in Congo who were forced to serve as child soldiers, and the girls who were married off, never given a chance to finish high school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“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

He’d married a white girl in France and brought her home. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Mom, I’m going to marry a white man,” I prodded her. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She was the oldest of nine children, only three of whom were married. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Veronica would attend and at times even help out with breakfast programs and clothing drives, but what Veronica really wanted was for Bodega to find a real job and marry her. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“They’d get in a room and swap notes on flower arrangements and who married who.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He remembered a time when he had thought that Lord Eddard Stark might marry him to Sansa and claim him for a son, but that had only been a child’s fancy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

“I know you think we’re being unfair,” she said, “but when I was your age I was living on my own, getting ready to marry your father.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

“It was very scary,” she admitted, “but not as scary as the thought of marrying Count Olaf.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

All this time, I knew she was married and had a daughter, but she never mentioned that her daughter was black. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Look, are you sure you still want to marry me?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It seems fitting that Frances Moody, who crossed the line and made a Jewish friend in the 1940s when Jews were unpopular in Suffolk, had married an Italian, Nick Falcone, a wood artisan. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

If he got married at eighteen he’d be ruining all that. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I receive this pot when I get marry. It gift from my mother. It only gift I get when marry.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I am your Prince and you will marry me,” Humperdinck said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

“It seemed like getting married, like being married, like you and me were married. Like the only kind of wedding we could ever have.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

“He was a very nice boy. He was going to marry me and he was killed in the Somme.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

Neil’s brother, an African Methodist- Episcopal reverend from Albany, Georgia, was going to marry them in the backyard under the myrtle trees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. How do you feel about marrying a sailor?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The night you went to the movies, you asked Clara to marry you, and gave her this tortoiseshell comb until you could buy her a ring.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Caroline is already marrying a nice man,” I said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had married Lessie Lane sometime around her sixteenth birthday. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Does thee plan to marry him?” she asked gently. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Once married, it is customary to settle into one consistent appearance. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There’s no record of Benjamin or Albert Lacks marrying or having any white children, and as with Albert, there’s no record that the black children in Benjamin’s will were his own. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

“When a man’s beloved wife dies, he mourns her forever—even if he marries again for companionship. Your mother is a hard act to follow. She will always be the love of your life.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“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

“But, my dear sister, can I be happy, even supposing the best, in accepting a man whose sisters and friends are all wishing him to marry elsewhere?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

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

“Just flunked right out after three weeks and ended up marrying some rich guy. But not two months later, she ran off to Atlanta with that rich guy’s brother.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

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

"There are lots of blind people in the world. You'll marry a nice blind man someday." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, it became my life's goal to get him. To kiss him. To marry him. I can't explain it, but it did.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s just...I know he got sent to prison. What would make a lady like you marry a guy who liked to steal from people?” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

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

Was it wise to remain here with a seventeen-year-old girl eager for marriage and a mother equally anxious to have her marry me? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“Why don’t you just marry Mama?” my sister Viola complained. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

"If you can do the same for me, let's get married." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Nothing more, except that I don’t believe I shall ever marry. I’m happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Do you think, for the past twenty-two years since marrying your father, I’ve had a minute to myself to be lazy?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“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

“It will be of no use to you after you are married. The money for books and school fees is better put toward your dowry, so that we may find you a suitable husband.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Dr. Talc idly wondered if they had married each other. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably the last thing she’d say to me before I walked up the aisle to be married was “Be good.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

If you take a bunch of practically grown, red-blooded daughters to Africa, don’t you think at least some of them are going to marry or what have you, and end up staying? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“He—he’s not free to marry. There’s a wife ... in Concord. She wouldn’t come to live here in a factory town. Though her father is one of the owners.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Olive said, “She’ll marry you. You told her to. She has to listen.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

And if he was Tag’s father, was he married to Donkey berry? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll marry you, Hank, if you bring me to live here at the Landing. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“The priests say even first cousins never should marry,” she said. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

And the duty of every young woman was to marry. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

Like my parents want, I’ll marry a lovely Korean American girl. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The older women, the married ones and the widows, wear black clothes and no makeup, as I used to do. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“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

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

“I’m not getting married, Dad,” says Muhammad, stepping on my toes. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

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

After his discharge, he got a job in New York as a bicycle mechanic, took up competitive bicycle racing, got married, and had two sons. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's against the law to marry that doctor-to-be. He's your cousin." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard that David Martin wants to marry you?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But he could see why she wasn’t married; she stirred a man’s mind maybe, but not his body. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

If Odysseus was dead, it would certainly be well for her to marry the richest of these men and the most liberal. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you get marry, you will have many present. I will get you myself! I will sew you hundred skirt. Somehow I will find money for cloth.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

“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

The girls were married, all except Dessie, and she had a successful dressmaking business in Salinas. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So now you know how I met and married your zeide. We’ve been together ever since, through all the hard times and all the good times too.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

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

If she brings me hot french fries, I might even ask her to marry me. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of his fears, back when he was trying to figure out if he should marry or not, was that moving to the country would make him idle. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

“She's getting married on Saturday!” cried one of the women, clutching the bride. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"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

Mr. Elijah Muhammad taught us that a tall man married to a too-short woman, or vice-versa, they looked odd, not matched. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Mine wants to marry the boss's daughter—a frigging eight-day wonder!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 were supposed to wait until we got married to have kids. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He told Dad that he would marry me and we would have “many babies.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The first picture had been a war film, and all I caught was the ending where the G.I. goes back to Europe to marry the woman who saved his life. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

“How are you going to get married?” he shouted. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the article, the result of the experiment was that the two test subjects did indeed fall in love and get married. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was said, and repeated, that children nursed by the same woman would instantly become siblings and must never marry. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Eighteen, so he’s old enough to get married if he wants,” Chantal says. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

“Do you know anyone who wants to get married?” she finally asked. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

“Nonsense, again! Marry! I don’t want to marry, and never shall marry.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

When walking Sophie through the neighborhood, my father feels not unlike the newly married senior stumbling behind his capricious young bride. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

Besides, why would I choose to marry one of those mean Little Rock white people? Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It was common gossip at the time, that Westing's daughter killed herself rather than have to marry that crooked politician. . . ." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time she was twelve she had made a pact, with two other Bengali girls she knew, never to marry a Bengali man. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What difference would it make? They should just get married and shut everybody up.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I told her that I didn't know she was married. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

Suffice to say, I was the first member of our family to finish college and the first to marry out of my race. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She was Terryl Warner now, married, with kids, and a track record for taking on tough cases as a victim’s advocate. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And I know they’re there, the good qualities, because I wasn’t that stupid to fall in love with him, to marry him. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d been too young to marry, but it hadn’t stopped them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“There was a couple in Virginia who’d been convicted of a crime for marrying, and your G’pop wasn’t willing to take the risk of marrying in secret,” she says. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

And now they’ve all grown and married and I’m here to play in their room again. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

While Anthony did not regret the choices she made, she was profoundly disappointed when two other leaders of the women’s rights movement—Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown—both decided to marry. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She had not only made up her mind to marry Adam but she had so decided before he had asked her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She answered him sincerely that she would never marry a man who was so simple that he had wasted almost an hour and even went without lunch just to see a woman taking a bath. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She understood what Jean de Satigny had meant on their wedding night when he explained that he did not feel inclined to married life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were couples getting married and people registering cars. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mom and Jack are married, and Jack’s last name is Leith. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

Within two weeks they know they want to marry. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

I wanted to overcome my emotional and sexual fears, to marry, have children, setde down. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

I didn’t say anything, because I didn’t have anything to add, so she took my arm with a smile and said she wanted to marry me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

As the hero put it on, the effect was the same as that of the robe Medea had sent her rival whom Jason was about to marry. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He held her, stroked her hair, and with moist eyes assured her that she had nothing to worry about, certainly he would marry her, as he long had promised. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I mean, you’re not marrying him for looks,” I say, and before the words are even out of my mouth, I regret it. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

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

Caroline too was going to get married whether Ma wanted her to or not. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jones wanted to know who was the bride, who married them, and all about it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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 had certainly never intended to marry her; such an idea was no more in his mind, he would have said, than the possibility of flying to the moon. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He worried that she would marry Master and bring her Yoruba-speaking housegirl into the house and destroy his herb garden and tell him what he could and could not cook. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Whatever it was, it seemed safely far off, like getting married or giving birth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

“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

“Ah! here I reach the root of the matter. He wanted you to marry him?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

“I kind of thought Henry would marry her one of these days.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“On whether I would have to marry a prince,” she said, and her tone was lighthearted, inviting Ash to share her smile. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

“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

When Crazy Joe found out Henrietta was going to marry Day, he stabbed himself in the chest with an old dull pocketknife. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I used to have daydreams in which she was white and married T. Ray, and became my real mother. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“My God,” said Dad, who didn’t stop swearing until after he was married. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Even though we were not married, we considered ourselves husband and wife. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it must very materially lessen their chance of marrying men of any consideration in the world,” replied Darcy. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Hell,” he said, “I came over here planning to ask you, for the hundredth time, to marry me.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

His sisters Arya and Sansa would marry the heirs of other great houses and go south as mistress of castles of their own. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“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

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

A pregnant Fifi would have to do what is always done in such cases on the Island—marry immediately and brace herself for the gossip when her "premature baby" comes out fat and fully grown. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“Will you marry me?” the kid in the dress asked. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was clever, though, as quick with words as with her hands, and fond of telling Quentyn that he had to wait for her to flower, so she could marry him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They taught because no one wanted to marry them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What a romantic! Meets a girl on the boat and marries her. No dowry.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

The one who easily handles and strings the bow and shoots through all twelve axes I shall marry, whoever he may be—then look my last on this my first love’s beautiful brimming house. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you were Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and Ron was married to Padma. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

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

He asked her how she was, told her she looked great, and with all the confidence in the world asked her if the rumors were true about her getting married. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

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

She the one Miss Hilly and Miss Leefolt always talking trash on cause she marry Miss Hilly’s old boyfriend. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Johnson thought that Monaco should get a job first before he made plans to marry her, and Lobel said that he should wait until he got back to the World before he made a decision. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“That will not happen, for I will marry you.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

Except for an occasional and unaccountable insurgent who chose a restive black, they married “up,” lightening the family complexion and thinning out the family features. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We are glad that you and Shad are married. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said I would marry her as soon as I completed my studies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Looks like after eleven years he’d ask you to marry him.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

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 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

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

She weeps in his arms and tells him they can never marry. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You have to find yourself a Muslim man to marry. They will always do right by you.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

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

Fun fact: her husband already had a daughter from a previous marriage who would go on to marry my grandmother's brother. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Look how they go and marry white women, want to hang out with white people. They’re trying to prove something to themselves.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

But it had been from the first her great mistake—to meet him, to marry him, to love him as she so bitterly had. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

“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

That annoyed hell out of me-- you'd've thought I wanted to marry them or something. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

He would not marry until he had become like Master, until he had spent many years reading books. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The rest has been relatively uneventful. I married Jim, and ended up here.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

“I’m fine. Still trying to wrap my head around Doreen getting married. At least Ricky is a good guy. Oh, wait.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Since Ifemelu came back, he found himself seeking stories of men who had left their marriages, and willing the stories to end well, the children more contented with separated parents than with married unhappy parents. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

Mamá used to be skinny before she got married, then she got really fat. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

Orpheus Fisher wanted to marry Marian, but she was too busy with her singing career to consider a serious romantic involvement. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

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

I could choose to marry your father, or I could choose not to marry him and go back to China. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t understand,” I said, when the waiter had gone, “I’m not the sort of person men marry.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you marry the other two Marines?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes. When Atticus married her, and I’d come home from Nashville for Christmas and things like that, why I fell head over heels in love with her. I still am—didn’t you know that?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“He asked me to marry him. We were engaged.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

It is her duty, they say, to marry soldiers and bear sons for the Angkar. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m dead. They’re dead too by now probably. What’s the difference? They didn’t want me to marry on the black side.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t let them marry,” Matt said slowly. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You’re right, sorry,” said Ron, but unable to help himself, he added, “Don’t get too friendly with him, though, Rosie. Granddad Weasley would never forgive you if you married a pureblood.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Every woman’s the marrying kind. You just watch.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew, of course, that Min was married. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

“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

I know I'll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

“You don’t know this, but Milton asked me to marry him a while ago. I said no. Now I’m going to write him and say yes.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“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

She had frequently thought—especially since his father’s marriage with Miss Taylor—that if she were to marry, he was the very person to suit her in age, character and condition. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“We got married cause I was pregnant,” Miss Celia says, “but it... it slipped out too.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

How she could come to me if I marry him and he be so love struck with her I could figure out a way for us to rim away. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the Lost Boys and Lost Girls had gotten married and begun to raise families. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You!’ cried Johnny hotly; ‘that old man—if he is a man! Why, he must be about forty. Cilia, you’re lying to me if you say anybody’s talking of marrying you.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

If he analyzes an hour of a husband and wife talking, he can predict with 95 percent accuracy whether that couple will still be married fifteen years later. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Fifteen, evidently, was not a good, solid marrying age for them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

“I guess it will be a long time before we can get married,” he said again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One year later, in England, we got married. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Return to Calcutta, I suppose. A widow with two girls to marry off? She doesn't really have a choice, does she?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She said, “I knew God didn’t want me to marry a man like him. He talks tough but inside he’s just a little bitty boy, scared of his mama. And anyhow, it’s her house.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“Perhaps she might; but it is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best. Miss Hawkins perhaps wanted a home, and thought this the best offer she was likely to have.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

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

"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

He’s asked my mother to marry him twice, and both times she's told him she wasn't ready. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

All you could do with honest people was lend them money and marry their daughters. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure whether he landed the mascot job in the end, though he did ultimately become a doctor, evidently a very good one, and married another Princeton classmate of ours. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

But she just said: “We are not in China anymore. You don’t have to marry the village boy. Here everybody is now from the same village even if they come from different parts of China.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’d be nothing but a slave. Do you think your husband would let you run off on visits? Husband! How could anyone think of marrying you off? You don’t look over eleven.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Blakeslee, I was once engaged to marry Mr. McAllister. He had that saddle made for me. It was his engagement present.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

I find myself floating off again to another possible future, where Kareem is getting married but I am not the bride. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

That’s where he ended his list of reasons not to marry. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say things like Jack and myself were married yesterday. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They were happily married for twenty-five years before she passed away. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He said to the class, “Stories are stories. Life is life. They kiss and they marry, but they die alone.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

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

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 real problem for Kermit was that he was head over heels in love with his fiancee, and he couldn’t wait to get back to civilization so he could marry her. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

And if he said he meant to do something—like keep his corn whiskey in your closet or marry Miss Love Simpson—if you couldn’t say yessir, you sure-dog didn’t say no sir. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

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 was born seven months after they got married.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A dressmaker had made it, in the East, in the place where Ma came from when she married Pa and moved out west to the Big Woods in Wisconsin. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“On the eve of your wedding day, you denounce him, but you wanted to marry him, the Brazilian soccer player; you always said when you were young that you wanted to marry him.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

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

Someday when I got older, I would have to learn to make fancy onigiri too, or nobody would marry me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was his name that made me know I would marry him. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in a world as strange as this one, a mouse and a princess cannot marry But, reader, they can be friends. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

When he asks us about the future, Peeta gets down on one knee, pours out his heart, and begs me to marry him. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Find Cecilia and love her, marry her, and live without shame. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“She’ll chase me off the front porch and try to marry you to a lawyer.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ran away and lived together like married for three years. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped to one knee then and with an emotional hitch in his voice asked sincerely if I’d please do him the honor of marrying him. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

Lourdes was a virgin when she married, and very proud of it. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he wasn’t married to Constantine’s mother, because that was against the law. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

They will end up getting married and having five kids. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

And Rev. Brown had married them all after the fact, so this was nothing new to him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned that Mandy was married and had a baby, but not much else. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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 one in our family has ever married outside,” she said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

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

Many were there for passes and permits to enable them to live and work in urban areas, to marry or move to another ghetto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“See, light-skinned colored people almost always marry light-skinned colored people on purpose. So they’ll have light-skinned kids.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“When you first hear that someone’s married, it’s polite to wish them happiness. Write it down.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was a symbol of her formal announcement to Aunty Ifeoma that she was getting married, she said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Gods be good, he talks as if we were not married yet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Grandma must have been excited and exhausted, traveling a thousand miles to marry a man she had never met. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally Proteus was won over by his courage and his good fortune, too; he became friends with him and gave him his daughter to marry. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know as I want to marry you,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Ten days hence she was sailing to the States on her way to Japan to marry an American she had known in college. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

They only worried about the Naxalites, who had been known to force men from Good Families to marry servant girls whom they had made pregnant. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m new at this married thing, all right? Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to marry him, but he’s cute. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to stay married to a woman? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

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 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

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

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

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

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

Laine also does not want to marry my brother, but her parents force her to as well. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to get married, and I can stay unmarried,” she wrote. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The disease rapidly gained ground, but Root remained committed to the engagement, even though it was clear to everyone he was marrying a dead woman. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He had decided he wasn’t that interested in marrying any of the Horner girls. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll have you know that I'm married to a fine, intelligent Negro girl," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have not yet said anything condemnatory of Mr. Rochester’s project of marrying for interest and connections. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

So they stoned the dame and married two more wives apiece and lived happily ever after. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Always. When I was growing up, we didn’t have anything, but my mom understood how much school meant to me. She cried when I told her I was going to marry your father.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Hank, I may as well tell you now and get it over with: I’m not going to marry you. Period and that’s that.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

With Gertrude’s money, I could marry a nobleman or buy a merchant’s wares and set up my own shop. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“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

Yes, the family wanted Reggie to fall in love and get married and have a family. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Back when he was thinking about getting married, he worried that taking walks with his wife would infringe on his work time. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

"What the hell you have to make a list of the pros and cons of marrying me for?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

If she didn’t intend to have babies, what had made her willing to marry an old man? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It had made sense to her, the decision not to marry, the need to preserve what they had by wrapping it in a shawl of difference. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ll help you for the rest of my life if you’ll marry me,” which I did, and God bless him, he was as good as his word. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never married, preferring, as she said, “not to be a slave to any man.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

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 I marry you, When your time has come to perish Then the maiden whom you cherish Must he slaughtered, too! Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I imagined her shouting, “Yes! Yes, I’ll marry you,” acting like it was a surprise even though she had to have been expecting it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

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

“Sure he will not leave London before he has found them. Who is to fight Wickham, and make him marry her, if he comes away?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Fortune, which had favored me, even to the height of marrying a prince, now turned her wheel to grind me down. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Vincent has a solution: he will take S. He would rather not marry her, but if he has to, he will. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Now do you see that she is unfit to marry? Now do you see no man of sane mind would touch her?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

He married a woman named Sigyn, who had been happy and beautiful when Loki courted and married her but now always looked like she was expecting bad news. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“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

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

We got the license and Rev. Brown married us in his private office at the church. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as his son was born, he began to make trips and inquiries to gain influence, in hopes that he could marry his son to a member of the imperial family. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You will marry me!” the emperor said, his voice dangerous. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

She was so beautiful that men from all over Ireland panted to marry her and her father wanted her to marry someone important. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Ma wanted Eric to officially come and ask her permission to marry her daughter. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

This past summer, her grandfather had married my grandmother. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

He told Winnie she was marrying a man who was already married to the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Seamus stops mopping again and tells us we shouldn’t be fighting over poetry because we’ll have enough to fight about when we grow up and get married. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He stopped smoking after he and my mom got married. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

He said it was good for men to have a wife, but that women like Alba could only lose by marrying. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mother gave me this ribbon,” Father said almost shyly, “the first year we were married.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I will marry you because you are a good man and I’d like to have you for my husband.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

Even if I had not wanted to marry, where would I go live instead? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, okay,” Taylor said, slightly dampened, but when Don came home, Taylor ran into his arms and said, “Ifemelu and Uncle Curt are going to get married and have a baby!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

Stories were told of girls having to marry old men, but I did not think Maa and Baap would let that happen to me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

He told Jo, “My married life so far has been torture.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

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

"Good for them. But I'm never getting married myself." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“They wouldn’t want you to marry a widow; such a marriage is inauspicious. And you own land. You would have no trouble finding a wife who would bring you a dowry.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He called his officer his guardian angel, and eventually married her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

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 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

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

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 never starved for food till I got married. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Chop, chop, chopping for hours through the ice! Just so they can throw in the coffin! The emperor will do anything to get her to marry him.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But he did have very strong advice for him: When you find the woman you want to marry, don’t tell her! Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She’d probably have told Dimple to pack it in and get married, to take this as a sign from the gods. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

Once she felt how the earth shook after Pap tore into a tree, she didn’t have no choice but to marry him, ’cording to her. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

And one day I might just marry a virile, but tender, garage mechanic and have a big cowy family, like Dodo Conway. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“More like a real paycheck, and she isn’t even right about that. No money, dead father. Nobody’s going to want to marry a charity case.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

"If you will not kiss me," asked Tristran, "will you marry me?" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

In fact he never forgave any of his daughters for marrying. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

He asked her to marry him and join him on the journey. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And finally, he pointed out, Fujiko wanted to go: she was young, nineteen, and wished to see something of the world beyond the sea before settling into her married life. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Until the day he was carrying her over a puddle and asked her to quit school and marry him. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Lufkins have such family pride that not even conservative tradition can sway a Lufkin woman into changing her last name when she gets married. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

P. P. S.—We are to be married on 28 September.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo’s mother would sometimes show the rings to Jinjoo and her sister, telling them they were theirs as soon as they got married. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Dessie was studying dressmaking, and Mollie, pretty Mollie, would obviously marry some well-to-do man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That meant that my dad was married to someone before he married my mom. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He says he’s marrying because he wants a wife and kids so that when war comes he doesn’t have to fight. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I’ve never asked. I guess probably they would prefer me to eventually marry a black guy.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He would never be a chemical engineer, and he would not be able to marry his high school sweetheart, who had followed him to Seattle so they could begin to build a life together. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

That shows you what can happen when you marry someone from the North for they have no control over themselves up there a bunch of Protestands that they are. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“If he doesn’t answer, you will marry me.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bands may have had as many as fifty members, with girls going outside the group to marry. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

During the services I would stare at her, wondering what it was like to be married to her, pondering over how passionate she was. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ar, he left her, and serve her right, marrying filth!” said Morfin, spitting on the floor again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I hadn't even met her husband yet, and they're married seventeen years. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

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

I was now married to one of the most heavily guarded human beings on earth. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“How can I tell, Hannah? He is good, and he’s fond of me. Besides,” Kit’s voice was pleading, “if I don’t marry him, how shall I ever escape from my uncle’s house?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Have Lina marry an American citizen so she could sponsor you?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

For my grandmother, the very first time she saw the face of the man she was marrying was in their wedding mirror. 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

She’d come two years ago from a small town far south of Incheon to work for their family after their first maid got married. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

That it's no good loving me because I'm never going to get married anyway and he'd just end up hating me later instead of sooner. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

I didn’t have to marry, at least not now, not when I was so young. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been married previously and had two children, but now she was single and still quite attractive. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

“My dear, you do not understand me. This is a matter of mere common politeness and good-breeding, and has nothing to do with any encouragement to people to marry.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

Her conversation was mostly worries that the earl would marry and have a child who would replace her as his heir. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Not bad to marry in the church,” the trader said, slightly offended. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said she would elope with him if Ma tried to make her marry Tweedie. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Hasina had feared, her family took her to Lahore, where she was made to marry the cousin who owned the auto shop. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

An octoroon woman in Bastrop had passed and married a white farmer. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

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

“Yes. I thought”—she sounded about to cry—“I thought I shouldn’t have any secrets from the man I was about to marry. I thought if Clayt really loved me....How stupid I was!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

“They will never let me see her again. She told me once if she could not marry me, she’d want to become a nun.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“He wants me to marry someone like him—someone who looks like him. A black man.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“If your master would marry, you might see more of him.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

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

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

And she would have tried to protect me from the older man who wanted to marry me. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“She doesn’t need to marry him or anybody else,” Peaches said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, one day out of the blue, she blurted, “Okay, I’ll marry you,” and I thought, Did I ask? Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“You couldn’t get to Scotland and back on a leave. Besides, I won’t leave you. What good would it do to marry now? We’re really married. I couldn’t be any more married.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

Shortly after that the couple was married in a private ceremony in the prison. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m too young to get married,” she said. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It is better to marry an older man, Naomi. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

While the flickering beam of the movie projector slants through the darkness over her head, Tessie admits to herself that she doesn’t want to marry Michael Antoniou. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“They do. But, darling, I am married. I’m married to you. Don’t I make you a good wife?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

What if my daughter wants to marry one of them? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

“But I married him for his brains,” she said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She now owned her husband’s cattle, and because of this there were many men waiting to marry her. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

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

"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

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

He asked her to marry him, so we moved to his home in Long Beach. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“And they must marry! Yet he is such a man!” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The more I thought about her the more I was against marrying her in the first place. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z