I am as full as a jade, quoth the bride. [ Proverb ]
New dressed and blooming as a bridal maid. [ Walter Harte ]
How much the wife is dearer than the bride! [ Lord Lyttleton ]
The rosy-fingered morn did there disclose
Her beauty, ruddy as a blushing bride,
Gilding the marigold, painting the rose,
With Indian chrysolites her cheeks were dyed. [ Baron ]
Many dressers put the bride's dress out of order. [ Proverb ]
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch
Is God's fair bride, and maidens' souls are such. [ Decker ]
You make a muck-hill on my trencher, quoth the bride. [ Proverb ]
He has most share in the wedding that lies with the bride. [ Proverb ]
O, happy youth! for whom thy fate reserved so fair a bride. [ Dryden ]
Society becomes my glittering bride, and airy hopes my children. [ Wordsworth ]
If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms. [ William Shakespeare ]
Evasive of the bridal day, she gives fond hopes to all, and all with hope deceives. [ Pope ]
The man who builds and wants wherewith to pay, provides a home from which to run away. [ Young ]
A thin aerial veil is drawn over beauty's face, seeming to hide, more sweetly shows the blushing bride. [ Crashaw ]
The bride, lovely herself, and lovely by her side a bevy of bright nymphs, with sober grace came glittering like a star, and took her place. [ Dryden ]
In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token that they would never again be needed. [ T. W. Higginson ]
Up, up, fair bride! and call thy stars from out their several boxes; take thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make thyself a constellation of them all. [ Donne ]
He laid him down and slept, and from his side a woman in her magic beauty rose: dazzled and charmed, he called that woman bride,
and his first sleep became his last repose. [ Besser ]
The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat; men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority - demanding, not the faculties of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of sacrifice - comes graceful and beloved as a bride. [ Emerson ]
How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb; all these are appropriate uses. Flowers should deck the brow of the youthful bride, for they are in themselves a lovely type of marriage; they should twine round the tomb, for their perpetually renewed beauty is a symbol of the resurrection; they should festoon the altar, for their fragrance and their beauty ascend in perpetual worship before the Most High. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]