Some inexpressible terror held her dumbshe was affianced to the man Martin Woodroffe.

The Britons were sorely troubled at this matter, and prayed the king not to put such affiance in the outland folk, for they wrought much mischief.

Turnus, king of the Rutulians, to whom Lavinia had been affianced before the arrival of Æneas, indignant that a stranger had been preferred to himself, had made war on Æneas and Latinus together.

They granted rings one to another, and pledged affiance between them.

She was affianced for reasons of state to a certain Princeand the wedding was to be made an event of international significance.

His son was rapidly rising to eminence in the corps diplomatique, and lately (though, strictly speaking, unebenbürtig) contracted an affiance with the Prinzessin Charlotte Mariana Natalia of Morgen-üppigen, a lady with a strain of indubitable Hohenzollern blood in her royal veins.

The simple plot of Tennyson's Princess is as follows: A prince of the North, after being affianced as a child to a princess of the South, has fallen in love with her portrait and a lock of her hair.

and can he not be affianced without my presence?

Lesbia sat by her affianced at the glittering table, lighted with clusters of wax candles, which shone upon a level parterre of tea roses, gardenias, and gloire de Malmaison carnations; from which rose at intervals groups of silver-gilt dolphins, supporting shallow golden dishes piled with peaches, grapes, and all the costliest produce of Covent Garden.