“On the night of the elopement the two children met at the minister's house.”

“The desert landscape is associated in the poetry with elopement, hardship, separation from lover or parents.”

“When he entices her to elope with him she steals the money necessary for the elopement, only to find that he does not keep his appointment, having gambled the money away.”

“It had not occurred to him that elopements must be carried out on a cash basis.”

“Honest indifference has no intrigues, no elopements, no disgraceful trials for criminal conversation, no divorces.”

“However, at the end of the 1960s, elopements started to increase.”

“The border settlements of Gretna Green, Coldstream and Lamberton were convenient for elopers from England who wanted to marry under Scottish laws, and marry without publicity.”