All 3 Uses of
nuptial
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Senhor Enrique Flor presided at the organ with his wellknown ability and, in addition to the prescribed numbers of the nuptial mass, played a new and striking arrangement of Woodman, spare that tree at the conclusion of the service.†
Chpt 12 *nuptial = of or relating to a wedding
- It grieved him plaguily, he said, to see the nuptial couch defrauded of its dearest pledges: and to reflect upon so many agreeable females with rich jointures, a prey to the vilest bonzes, who hide their flambeau under a bushel in an uncongenial cloister or lose their womanly bloom in the embraces of some unaccountable muskin when they might multiply the inlets of happiness, sacrificing the inestimable jewel of their sex when a hundred pretty fellows were at hand to caress, this, he assured them, made his heart weep.†
Chpt 14
- In five public conveniences he wrote pencilled messages offering his nuptial partner to all strongmembered males.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
concerning a wedding