ask for the hand of
Example Sentences
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‘My son has sent me to ask for the hand of the princess,’ said she.
From The Orange Fairy Book by Various
Sir Henry de la Zouch would take advantage of to-day's festivity to ask for the hand of Doll.
From Heiress of Haddon by William E. Doubleday
He could not bring himself to reply that he had come to ask for the hand of Stepan's sister-in-law Kitty, though that was really his errand.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
And when Hohenzollern lets fall a word about the mission of the Swedish ambassador to ask for the hand of the Princess of Orange, the Prince is even inclined to think unworthily of the Elector.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various
"Suppose he ask for the hand of our daughter."
From The Good Time Coming by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
