marriage-bell

Everything then went as merrily as that marriage-bell which, apparently, is the only one absent in Bohemia's gay chimes.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

Boom! twanging gay as the first tap of a marriage-bell, a loud crack in the ice rang musically for leagues up and down the river.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

The immense glass-house was fitted up for dancing, and all went merry as a marriage-bell, with a crater about to open under our feet, as at the duchess of Richmond's ball at Brussels.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

All went merry as a marriage-bell until there came a portentious caution from the front.

Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

Here a new halt was made: new people surrounded him; more hand-shakings and back-slappings took place; and everything seemed merry as a marriage-bell.

Captivating Mary Carstairs Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

When the twenty-fifth anniversary of our marriage occurred, they decorated our church with flags and flowers and suspended a huge marriage-bell on an arch before the pulpit.

Recollections of a Long Life Cuyler, Theodore L 1902

My grandfather, as usual, was the life of the occasion, and all went merry as a marriage-bell.

R. Holmes & Co. John Kendrick Bangs 1892

So far as she was concerned, all went blithely as a marriage-bell until the morning of July 5, when there came the fearful news of the massacre of

Under Fire Charles King 1888

A great marriage-bell of carnations hangs over the altar steps; the altar itself is one mass of daisies; the air is heavy with perfume and now, as eight o'clock approaches, rich with soft, exquisite melody that comes floating from an unseen orchestra in the loft.

Marion's Faith. Charles King 1888

The abolition of the second comma dispelled the dreadful vision of three-hundred-and-fifty school-boy-speeches, and all went merry as a marriage-bell -- all, except the weather.

Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography George William Erskine Russell 1886