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He cites her biography of Princess Diana, which cited romance novelist Barbara Cartland, step-grandmother of Diana, as saying Diana's marriage to Prince Charles failed because of her distaste for one particular step in the marriage-bed minuet.
Boulevardier's Delight Henry Allen 2011
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Not their husbands alone with the captives did they slay on account of the marriage-bed, but all the males at the same time, that they might thereafter pay no retribution for the grim murder.
The Argonautica 2008
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'O my marriage-bed, wherein I loosed my virgin girdle to him for whom I die!
Alcestis 2007
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Your image, carven by the skilled hands of artists, shall be laid in our marriage-bed; I shall clasp it, and my hands shall cling to it and I shall speak your name and so, not having you, shall think I have my dear wife in my arms-a cold delight, I know, but it will lighten the burden of my days.
Alcestis 2007
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Your image, carven by the skilled hands of artists, shall be laid in our marriage-bed; I shall clasp it, and my hands shall cling to it and I shall speak your name and so, not having you, shall think I have my dear wife in my arms-a cold delight, I know, but it will lighten the burden of my days.
Alcestis 2007
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"It's not too late, you can still look back at the red towers of your native Sodom, the square where once you sang, the spinning-shed, at the empty windows set in the tall house where sons and daughters blessed your marriage-bed."
ANC Today 2007
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'O my marriage-bed, wherein I loosed my virgin girdle to him for whom I die!
Alcestis 2007
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It was a mortal sin, a sacrilege, a spiritual incest; and she thereby forfeited her marriage-bed and crown.
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"It's not too late, you can still look back at the red towers of your native Sodom, the square where once you sang, the spinning-shed, at the empty windows set in the tall house where sons and daughters blessed your marriage-bed."
ANC Today 2007
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Fleming, already chilled with panic, and prepared with superstition, than, believing herself visited by the devil, who was permitted to punish her for her infidelity to the marriage-bed, she uttered a scream, and began to repeat her pater noster with a loud voice.
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