lovelessly

Just as older cautionary tales involve disobedience and recklessly marrying for love, their modern equivalentswarn of the other extreme:marrying lovelessly, and the dangers thereof.

Marrying For What? « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

Just as older cautionary tales involve disobedience and recklessly marrying for love, their modern equivalentswarn of the other extreme:marrying lovelessly, and the dangers thereof.

2008 June « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

Just as older cautionary tales involve disobedience and recklessly marrying for love, their modern equivalentswarn of the other extreme:marrying lovelessly, and the dangers thereof.

2008 June 28 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

As for Goris's young daughter, the elven overseer Dorion would undoubtedly bed her as soon as he wed her, and keep bedding her lovelessly until she conceived, then abandon her for the arms of his concubines.

The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991

He has a notorious liaison with a dancer at the Opera; she has married lovelessly.

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

That he has pursued his wonted way of life, and that she has married lovelessly (for a husband who plays whist is, by the unwritten law of romance, a husband who can by no possibility be loved!), proves merely that each has fallen away in the pursuit of any ideal which may then have urged itself -- not that both would certainly have "saved their souls" if they had married one another.

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

"I come to get my older brother for a husband for our friend, the princess of the great broad land of Hawaii, Laieikawai, our protector when we were lovelessly deserted by our older brother; therefore we are ashamed; we have no way to repay the princess for her protection; and for this reason permit me and my princely brother to go down below and bring Laieikawai up here."

The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915

You are to be sold thus, lovelessly, into bondage to a man you do not know.

Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

But that out of considerations of worldly advancement you should lovelessly consent to mate with him ...

Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

A child born in wedlock may be as lustfully and lovelessly begotten.

Sanine Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev 1902