affiance
Example Sentences
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And shall the passage of one such soul across the mere brook of Death dissolve affiances so deep, so latent, and so pure as this?
From Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord
Malati affiances herself there and then to Madhava.
From Tales from the Hindu Dramatists by Zemin, J. S.
Nouronihar, as her hands evince, is solemnly promised to Gulchenrouz, the son of my brother Ali Hassan; they are united also in heart, their faith is mutually plighted, and affiances so sacred cannot be broken.”
From The History of Caliph Vathek by Beckford, William