"Wedding gown" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. From this motive, I had scarce taken orders a year before I began to think seriously of matrimony, and chose my wife as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surfaces but such qualities as would wear well. To do her justice, she was a good-natured notable woman; and as for breeding, there were few country ladies who could shew more. She ...
— The Vicar of Wakefield • Oliver Goldsmith
... less frequented drive which she had asked for, Georgiana turned to her father. She held up something before him, and, looking at it, he discovered the little old bag of dark blue silk which her mother had fashioned from her own wedding gown, and which had contained the treasured gold pieces which had made it possible for Georgiana to have a wedding ...
— Under the Country Sky • Grace S. Richmond
... princess looked more beautiful than ever in her wedding gown of cloth of gold, thickly set with diamonds, and her crown of ...
— Dorothy Dainty at the Mountains • Amy Brooks
... Hall in its glory: a brilliant autumn afternoon in 1907, the wedding day of the daughter of the house; a picturesque concourse of wedding guests upon the lawn before the doorway; a sudden lifting of all eyes to the balcony above the portico, where the bride appears, clad in her wedding gown, stands radiant, with her bridal bouquet poised aloft, and flings it ...
— The Story of Cooperstown • Ralph Birdsall |
