betrothment
Example Sentences
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He was more frightened than anybody at the moment the owl cried, on your betrothment night, when you fancied that Nipen had carried off Oddo.
From Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" by Harriet Martineau
This was his betrothment and marriage to Marie Hélène, the daughter of Nicolas Boullé, private secretary to the young King.
From A Little Girl in Old Quebec by Amanda Minnie Douglas
Milder thoughts, we say; and consented to a meeting next autumn, at some half-way station, where their great business might be brought to a happy settlement and betrothment.
From Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle
Her early betrothment to King Erik Christopherson had been one of the conditions of his release from Nordborg Castle, after he was taken prisoner in the war with Duke Waldemar's father.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
An object which had finally been frustrated, notwithstanding the vigilance of the English fleet, by the safe arrival of Mary in France, and her solemn betrothment to the dauphin.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
