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

"In God's name," cried he, "I plight such affiance as seems most meet to thee."

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene

Thus he pledged his faith, and the Duke accepted his affiance.

From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de

That attachment and affiance, which ought to subsist between the dependant and his protector, are destroyed.

From Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady by Chapone, Hester

Here is an ideal where conscience and righteousness stand in close affiance, where liberty springs from equity, and where pity never fails.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.