register-office

It was a register-office wedding, which none of Julia's family attended.

John Lennon, Cynthia 2005

Some sly register-office business, no doubt; but sly doings will out.

The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid 2003

I'll write to Mr.. Elwood -- 'and she was absorbed in the register-office in her brain, when Mr. Kendal continued --

The Young Step-Mother Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

'But it's a most extraordinary thing about that register-office fellow!' thought Nicholas.

Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841

Nicholas stammered out an awkward apology, and was precipitately retiring, when the young lady, turning her head a little, presented to his view the features of the lovely girl whom he had seen at the register-office on his first visit long before.

Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841

'That's odd enough!' said Nicholas, ruminating upon the strange manner in which the register-office seemed to start up and stare him in the face every now and then, and when he least expected it.

Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841

Now, Lady Holster, who kept a sort of amateur county register-office, was only too glad to be made of use in this way; but when she inquired a little further as to the sort of person required, all she could extract from Mr. Wilkins was:

A Dark Night's Work Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

This was the keeping of a register-office, one of the first known in the Metropolis, whence he drew incalculable advantages.

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

-- Yes, my drawing-room is an absolute register-office for candidate actors, and poets without character.

Scarborough and the Critic Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1783

“Fie, fie! no register-office keeper has been pestered with more claimants.

Cecilia 2008