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Definition of Elopements
1. elopement [n] - See also: elopement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elopements
Literary usage of Elopements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Common Sense: Applied to the Causes, Prevention and Cure of Chronic by Edward Bliss Foote (1864)
"Philosophy of elopements. elopements are becoming so frequent, ... It is common
to ascribe elopements to human depravity, but I am disposed to attribute ..."
2. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... Wedding — How Paternal Consent is Obtained — Indian elopements — Love Defiant
of Locks and Bars — Escape from the Lodge — Flight and Pursuit — Assessing ..."
3. Marriage in the United States by Auguste Carlier (1867)
"elopements. There are other cases where social propriety, though not so rudely
shocked, yet has claims which the parents would not see disregarded. ..."
4. Plain home talk by Edward Bliss Foote (1892)
"It is common to ascribe elopements to human depravity, but I am disposed to
attribute them to human ignorance. Our public schools make good historians, ..."
5. Mozart: A Biographical Romance by Heribert Rau (1870)
"TWO elopements. MOZART'S opera, "The Elopement from the Seraglio," was now
finished; but close about the feet of the master's hopes hissed the old snake of ..."
6. Quakerism: Or, The Story of My Life by Sarah D. Greer (1852)
"... husband—elopements—Feelings—Education unnecessary for a Preacher—Persecution—Friend
Gregory's method of taking revenge—Disownment and its consequences. ..."
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