20 Verbs to Use for the Word betrothal

But this had now disappeared, and either party could break off the betrothal at pleasure without prejudice.

We celebrated our betrothal in the Rectory of Veilbye.

He was betrothed, and the Empress Elizabeth herself had blessed the betrothal.

He asked how he could marry her all of a sudden when they had never been betrothed; but the princess said "We have been betrothed for a long time; do you remember one day tying a hair up in a leaf and setting it to float downstream; well that hair has been the go-between which arranged our betrothal."

Oh, love, let me hold you to my heartlet me seal our betrothal with a kiss!' 'Betrothalno, no; not for the world,' cried Lesbia.

"That I should accompany him to witness his betrothal.

They conceal from you the honourable offer of such a man as Gianluca della Spina, the eldest son of a great old house, and they announce your betrothal with Count Bosio before either you or he know of it.

There had to be that storm to make us meet, and then destiny prevented our betrothal.

Another day Clara saw him taking his coffee with his sister-in-law, and she repeated his query: "Did you not feel that I was there?" Old Wieck stooped to everything, and even told Clara that he had written to Ernestine to demand a statement that she fully released Schumann from his former engagement to herit being remembered that among Germans a betrothal always used to be almost as difficult a bond to sever as a marriage tie.

The earl of Douglas contrived to set aside this betrothal in favor of his own daughter Elizabeth, who married the prince, and became duchess of Rothsay.

Kelson had naturally been much more inclined to drive over to the Tredworths, about seven miles away, in order to settle his betrothal, but Gifford suggested that the duty call should be paid first, and so it was arranged.

And now let my husband tell his story, for nothing can solemnise more appropriately the betrothal of a daughter of the Star, than her admission to the knowledge of the Order whose privileges are her heritage.

'Twas a delightful betrothal, full of courage and faith.

Was this the manner to view her betrothal with such a man as Frank?

2. The definite testimony of Hieronymus, who places the betrothal of the Syrian princess Cleopatra with Ptolemy Epiphanes in 556, taken in connection with the hints in Liv. xxxiii.

Sir Hugo cancels his own betrothal in favor of his nephew (sir Damian de Lacy), who marries the lady Eveline, "the betrothed.

You have consummated the betrothal.

[Reflecting] I picture to myself: suddenly a soldier makes advances to me, suddenly a solemn betrothal, candles burn everywhere, the butlers enter, wearing white gloves; I, naturally, in a tulle or perhaps in a gauze gown; then suddenly they begin to play a waltzbut how confused I shall be before him!

I was so astonished at this, considering the child's extreme youth, that I remarked he no doubt meant her betrothal, but he assured me that she would then be married and delivered over to her husband.

Herwig had in this encounter proved himself no despicable foe; so Hettel, preferring to have him as a friend, no longer opposed his betrothal, but even promised that the wedding festivities should be celebrated within a year.

20 Verbs to Use for the Word  betrothal