seek the hand of

Eric had not long been dead before wooers in plenty came to seek the hand of the rich dowager.

Tears dropped from the eyes of the knight, and with trembling he began to seek the hand of the king.

A gracious loser, he went off to seek the hand of Ferguson, the ultimate winner in English soccer for the past two decades.

And the Prince learned that from far and wide suitors had come to seek the hand of the Princess, but she had never been willing to look at any of them.

He would not have approached this latter part of the subject had he not at length mistaken Alfred's fortitude for indifference, and persuaded himself that prudential considerations must have been chiefly influential in tempting his brother to seek the hand of Caroline.