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After nine months of beauty treatments in drydock, she shone bridelike again as she glided away from a Southampton pier to take a two-day trial run.

From Time Magazine Archive

He and the schoolmaster had been very intimate about this time; but we know not how it happened that soon afterwards he felt a modest bridelike reluctance in meeting with that afflicted gentleman.

From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

Free from man's disfiguring touch, pure, immaculate, it appeared bridelike through a veil of morning mist.

From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Vorst, Marie Van

"No, I do not want to be too youthfully dressed, or to look too bridelike on my wedding tour; so I think I will have a dark navy blue."

From Elsie at the World's Fair by Finley, Martha

Only a few minutes had passed when they returned, Maud looking very bridelike in the dainty satin and the veil.

From Elsie at Home by Finley, Martha