affiance

Example Sentences

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For in him is all mine affiance; We have in the world so many a day Be on good friends in sport and play.

From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Rhys, Ernest

The choice rested with the fathers, who were accustomed to affiance their sons early, indeed when mere boys.

From The Women of the Caesars by Ferrero, Guglielmo

The king with full affiance took Siegfried's words for true.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

But now Liben bids farewell to the forest; he is going home that his mother may affiance and wed him to the daughter of the Pope Nicholas.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

You set affiance on him, I know, and I the like: and if he be not misturned, methinks he may yet prove a good servant.

From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Holt, Emily Sarah