From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

From The Instructor, 1960.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

"Wives are unsatisfied."  From Woroni, 1959.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

"Getting married and unmarried!"  From Motion Picture Classic, 1923.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

"Marriage -- benefit by my mistakes."  From Purple Parrot, 1946.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

We hear too little about how a game of chess can save a marriage.  Note the near-subliminal symbolism here -- he's pinching his queen's nub.  From The Instructor, 1959.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

From The Cynic's Rules of Conduct by Chester Field, 1905.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

"You're his wife ... who's his girlfriend?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

From Together magazine, 1967.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

From The New Movie Magazine, 1935.

From The Couple Who Became Each Other by David L. Calof.

"Married on death bed."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

"How to be happy though married."  From The Link, 1947.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

"Married after death."  From Ghost Stories, 1926.

From The Goblin, 1924.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

Yes, our pay envelope keeps us out of this picture, but in all honesty so does homosexuality.  From Astounding Science Fiction, 1938.

Will your conscience let you marry?  From The Judge, 1922.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.