ask for the hand of

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He might have enough to keep him comfortably, and, above all, acquire a position that would entitle him to go to Sir George Haredale and ask for the hand of his daughter.

From Hard Pressed by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)

The content refers to an embassy sent from Egypt to ask for the hand of his daughter and to recognition of his conquests in Phœnicia.

From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various

The minor canon, who had heard nothing of this, drew himself up as though about to declare in his pride that he had not intended to ask for the hand of the lady of Llanfeare.

From Cousin Henry by Trollope, Anthony

I have come here to ask for the hand of your daughter.

From Modern Icelandic Plays Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm by Schanche, Henninge Krohn

"I am here to ask for the hand of your niece, Miss Rawson, as she is now free from other engagements, and with her full consent I desire to make her my wife."

From The Point of View by Glyn, Elinor