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Martin Wilbourne, unexpectedly bound for overseas duty, hopped off his train, married the girl awaiting him at the station, hopped back, departed brideless.

From Time Magazine Archive

He married her, but last March he ar rived in Manhattan, brideless and damning a U. S. Consul in Jugoslavia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Be quite the woman, give To every wish the rein, that brideless May seize on thee, and whirl thee here and there.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno

It was Sam who proved himself hero of the honeymoon, for he saved T. A. Buck from continuing his journey to Chicago brideless.

From Emma McChesney and Co. by Ferber, Edna

The brideless Becket is thy king and mine: I will go live and die in Aquitaine.

From Becket and other plays by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron