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  • We would get into two groups, each supposed to be a family, then each family would have to betroth a girl so we could perform a marriage ceremony.†  (source)
  • She had to wed Joffrey, they were betrothed, he was promised to her, she had even dreamed about it.†  (source)
  • "What does concern me," continued Queen Levana, her voice a sweet lullaby that sharpened with her next words, "is that it appears my betrothed has fallen in love with an insignificant shell.†  (source)
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  • This is how I became betrothed to Huang Taitai's son, who I later discovered was just a baby, one year younger than I. His name was Tyan-yu—tyan for "sky," because he was so important, and yu, meaning "leftovers," because when he was born his father was very sick and his family thought he might die.†  (source)
  • It was only after the betrothal that she'd learned his name.†  (source)
  • And now I grudge not thy prosperity; betroth thy child, good luck to thee, but let me abide in this land, for though I have been wronged I will be still and yield to my superiors.†  (source)
  • How many a maid Has been betroth'd and then betray'd; And has repented after!†  (source)
  • I have heard that some girls have had to give up their betrothals because their families can no longer provide dowries.†  (source)
  • What is he for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?†  (source)
  • And so, since a sunrise hour on a chilly Mexico City morning in early December, Perry had been prowling about the unheated hotel room assembling and packing his possessions-stealthily, lest he waken the two sleeping shapes lying on one of the room's twin beds: Dick, and the younger of his betrotheds, Inez.†  (source)
  • Kisses, father of Theano, his mother, brought up the child, and when he reached the stage of promising manhood tried to hold him there, betrothing to him a daughter.†  (source)
  • I'm his brother's betrothed—he has to be protective of me.†  (source)
  • Israel agreed, but asked that the betrothal document be kept a secret for the time being.†  (source)
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