Banns

(noun.) a public announcement of a proposed marriage.

校对:洛丽

• I conceived the idea that the time when the banns were read and when the clergyman said, Ye are now to declare it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Well, he would about have matched that woman's face, when she said, 'I forbid the banns. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I can never forget those banns. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The last time one of us was there was when neighbour Fairway went in the fall; and that was the day you forbad the banns, Mrs. Yeobright. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• And the next thing I heard was, 'I forbid the banns,' from her. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Jeremiah then says to me, “As to banns, next Sunday being the third time of asking (for I've put 'em up a fortnight), is my reason for naming Monday. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• To my thinking, she's just as much married as if the banns had been read in all the churches in London. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I didn't know the two had walked together since last fall, when her aunt forbad the banns. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• After once forbidding the banns I think I can do no less. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

整理:莫顿