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marriage-contract

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  • So he wrote the marriage-contract between them, and the affair was ended in the goodliest fashion; after which all in the Divan went their ways and the merchants followed the Wazir Ali, escorting him to his house, where they gave him joy of his advancement and departed.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Kazi and legal witnesses and they wrote out the marriage-contract, after which the slaves perfumed the guests with incense, 381 and served them with sherbet of sugar and sprinkled rose-water on them and all went their ways.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • At this the Caliph laughed and, summoning the Kazi and witnesses, renewed the marriage-contract between the Lady Dunya and her husband, Mohammed Ali son of the

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I perceive also, by a marriage-contract in the family repositories, that Miss Lilias Redgauntlet of Redgauntlet, about eighteen months after the transactions you have commemorated, intermarried with Alan Fairford,

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • After this, I abode with them awhile, till she was restored to her former beauty, when her father sent for the Kazi and the witnesses and bade write out the marriage-contract between her and me and made a mighty great bride-feast; and she is my wife to this day and this is my son by her.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Wherefore I have despatched unto thee my Wazir Ayn Zar, with great store of bridal gear, and I have appointed him to stand in my stead and to enter into the marriage-contract in my name.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then he sent for the Shaykh Al – Islam47 and bade him write out the marriage-contract between his daughter and Merchant

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • β€œThe marriage-contract dress is, in my opinion, half the battle,” said Solonet.

    A Marriage Contract 2007

  • The instinct of his race, as well as certain insidious questions, made him aware that the value of the diamonds was included in the marriage-contract.

    A Marriage Contract 2007

  • Also, that the marriage-contract arranges for his nephew to succeed on his death to his enormous fortune and his title, and bestows on the young couple in the meantime an income of a hundred thousand livres, on the bride a dowry of eight hundred thousand francs.

    Letters of Two Brides 2007

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