betrothment

Example Sentences

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Last Thursday Countess L. opened the season with an unusual event—a betrothment ball.

From The Cross of Berny by Fendall, Florence

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 Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

She was eighteen and adorable, but her mother would not hear to a betrothment.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

This betrothment of children, and all their other miserable arts, shall not save them.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

He always spoke of Roy with seriousness and respect, confessing voluntarily, time and again, his own moral and intellectual inferiority to his cousin, and scrupulously keeping her betrothment before Jessie's mind.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion