affiancing

Example Sentences

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Sydney tries to escape the pity of ever-present hotel guests by affiancing herself to a sanguine, vacationing clergyman aged 40, but the clergyman is quickly followed by an anticlimax.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then they feasted, with unearthly servitors to attend them, and did all else appropriate to an affiancing of deities.

From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch

The famous affiancing in New York of a coachman with the daughter of the millionaire who employed him did not turn out well.

From Around The Tea-Table by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

You know, to me, Clara, plighted faith, the affiancing of two lovers, is a piece of religion.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

Rumour said he had been on the point of affiancing another to one of the men now in prison.

From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by Durham, M. E. (Mary Edith)