honeymooners

Updated: June 1, 2025

Now Arthur Laing in his hasty survey of the party had arrived at a not unnatural but wholly erroneous conclusion. He took John and Mary for a newly married couple, and Miss Bussey for an old family servant detailed to look after her young mistress's entry into independent housekeeping. "More infernal honeymooners," he said to himself, as he washed his hands. "The place is always full of 'em.

Anthony Hope - Comedies of Courtship

Of course, I had to go round beyond the bungalows, and then come up towards the group from behind. A high-pitched woman's voice called, "Honeymooners! honeymooners! Come out and see!" Something gleamed in the shadow of the nearer bungalow, and a man's voice answered from within. What he said I did not catch, but suddenly I heard Nettie calling very distinctly, "We've been bathing."

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - In the Days of the Comet

But now great gray guns are emplaced in the shady glens where the honeymooners used to stroll; on the terraces of the tourist hostelries, where, on summer afternoons, men in white flannels and women in dainty frocks chattered over their tea, now lounge Italian officers in field uniforms of gray; the blare of dance music and the popping of champagne corks has been replaced by the blare of bugles and the popping of rifles.

E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell - Italy at War and the Allies in the West