This is singular, too, for she seems of a most soft and susceptible heart; is always talking of love and connubial felicity, and is a great stickler for old-fashioned gallantry, devoted attentions, and eternal constancy, on the part of the gentlemen.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Mr. Henry Fuller, of Chicago, in his powerful novel The Cliff Dwellers, uses a still less elegant synonym for "scrap"-he talks of a "connubial spat."
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
Ergo, our relatives' wishes respectfully fulfilled, and-connubial misery ad libitum.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson