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  • She's the only teenager I know who has a betrothed, and it's cute how flustered she gets when she talks about Amir Fadlan.†   (source)
  • If he had not given in to the many temptations at hand before he experienced Fermina Daza's love, he certainly would not succumb now that she was his official betrothed.†   (source)
  • That would force Sloan to accept our betrothal.†   (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)
  • Much to my disappointment (and to my mother's, too, all things confessed) an offer of betrothal has not been received.†   (source)
  • What indeed happened to her betrothed?†   (source)
  • You're mine by betrothal.†   (source)
  • There are rumors of a betrothal.†   (source)
  • I have heard that some girls have had to give up their betrothals because their families can no longer provide dowries.†   (source)
  • WOMAN But she is betrothed to your own son.†   (source)
  • Israel agreed, but asked that the betrothal document be kept a secret for the time being.†   (source)
  • Booth's betrothed, Lucy Lambert Hale, is the daughter of John Parker Hale, a staunchly pro-war senator from New Hampshire.†   (source)
  • I KEPT Ira as long as I could but when she was past fourteen her marriage could be delayed no longer, for it is well known with what speed eligible young men are snapped up; as it was, most girls of her age were already married or at least betrothed.†   (source)
  • But, had it been needed, I could have bound you with a net of words, persuaded you to agree to betrothal only—until the quest was over.†   (source)
  • Have a care how you address my betrothed.†   (source)
  • She glanced back at me with a panicked expression, then went to meet her betrothed.†   (source)
  • My betrothed only smirks, raising an eyebrow a little.†   (source)
  • I will never understand these betrothed teenagers nowadays.†   (source)
  • "I'm betrothed to your brother," I tell him, pulling away.†   (source)
  • And you, dog, away with you, you're scaring my betrothed.†   (source)
  • Betrothed to a girl with eyes for another, for the brother, the prince no one could ever ignore.†   (source)
  • She had to wed Joffrey, they were betrothed, he was promised to her, she had even dreamed about it.†   (source)
  • Your older girl is still betrothed to Joffrey.†   (source)
  • Our guests will be here for the coming weeks, to properly honor the prince and his betrothed.†   (source)
  • "My betrothed can drink as much as she wants," Joffrey said, refilling her cup.†   (source)
  • I'm his brother's betrothed—he has to be protective of me.†   (source)
  • I don't know whether to scream or run when I see my betrothed appear from the shadows.†   (source)
  • See that you bathe and dress as befits my betrothed.†   (source)
  • I seem to share a common cause with my betrothed's brother.†   (source)
  • Other guests soon joined the king and his betrothed on the floor.†   (source)
  • It is to be understood that Salmis betrothal to Joffrey Baratheon is at an end.†   (source)
  • If I may, this is my betrothed, Katrina.†   (source)
  • She broke Ser Humfrey's collarbone, two ribs, and their betrothal.†   (source)
  • We had been betrothed to the same village.†   (source)
  • King Joffrey is betrothed to Sansa Stark.†   (source)
  • Might be I should seek out your betrothed.†   (source)
  • If you had pleased him, you would have been betrothed to his daughter.†   (source)
  • He is Mademoiselle LeFarge's betrothed, a detective with Scotland Yard and a kind man as well.†   (source)
  • "Glory to your betrothed," Ser Arys answered at once.†   (source)
  • It was Tyrion who betrothed Myrcella to Prince Trystane.†   (source)
  • As Joffrey's betrothed, Sansa had the seat of honor on the queen's right hand.†   (source)
  • I see that betrothal to Inspector Kent has sharpened LeFarge's own skills of detection.†   (source)
  • Betrothed to your own brother and under my protection.†   (source)
  • Doran was betrothed to Lady Mellario of Norvos, so he had been left behind as castellan of Sunspear.†   (source)
  • Panhu was happy, but his betrothed was embarrassed.†   (source)
  • Robb's betrothed to one of Lord Walder's daughters, and Rouse Bolton wed another, I hear.†   (source)
  • She wondered how her betrothed would take that.†   (source)
  • "But the betrothal is only a rumor," I say.†   (source)
  • Who have I been betrothed to, all these years?†   (source)
  • Your lady mother meant to betroth Jaime to my sister, or Cersei to me.†   (source)
  • Her betrothed was the son of a farmer who worked four times as many mou as Baba and Uncle.†   (source)
  • Before the war I was betrothed to Daryn Horn-wood.†   (source)
  • Finally the doors opened, and her betrothed strode into her father's hall.†   (source)
  • "Joffrey is betrothed to Sansa Stark," Cersei objected.†   (source)
  • Everything I had been told since my betrothal was arranged six years ago flooded my mind.†   (source)
  • "Be quiet, or I'll have Ser Meryn give you a mortal wound," Joffrey told his betrothed.†   (source)
  • May you find happiness with your betrothed.†   (source)
  • My betrothal was announced at a feast with half the west in attendance.†   (source)
  • Just as Madame Wang predicted, the perfection of my golden lilies led me to a fortuitous betrothal.†   (source)
  • Doran Martell had betrothed her to his son in the belief that she was Robert's blood.†   (source)
  • If you were to betroth Shireen to him—†   (source)
  • There had been no final feast, no toasts to celebrate her betrothal to Prince Rhaegar.†   (source)
  • What had she said about Snow Flower's betrothal?†   (source)
  • A women's cake, baked only for betrothals.†   (source)
  • They had only met the once, on the occasion of their betrothal.†   (source)
  • It still made her furious to think that Father had agreed to betroth Tommen to Margaery Tyrell.†   (source)
  • A betrothal can be arranged, if that is your wish, but any marriage will need to wait.†   (source)
  • Brienne had never mentioned a betrothal.†   (source)
  • Not until His Grace agrees to the betrothal.†   (source)
  • Highgarden should have been content with a betrothal.†   (source)
  • Then you're not betrothed?†   (source)
  • No, I'm not betrothed.†   (source)
  • She was betrothed to Amir.†   (source)
  • "Take my betrothed back to the castle, and see that no harm befalls her," the prince told him brusquely.†   (source)
  • Pretending to be Silver, being betrothed to a prince, learning to control myself—it sounds preposterous, but they listen intently.†   (source)
  • "Robert was betrothed to marry her, but Prince Rhaegar carried her off and raped her," Bran explained.†   (source)
  • And her betrothed looked at her with the cool grey eyes of a Stark and promised to spare the boy who loved her.†   (source)
  • "My name is Lady Mareena Titanos, betrothed of the prince Maven," I snap, moving down the steps with as much grace as I can.†   (source)
  • My betrothed.†   (source)
  • She called me a liar and threw an orange at me and spoiled my dress, the ivory silk, the one Queen Cersei gave me when I was betrothed to Prince Joffrey.†   (source)
  • Betrothed to a prince.†   (source)
  • Her betrothed.†   (source)
  • Ned had held the babe in his arms; he could scarcely deny her, nor would he lie to his sister, but he had assured her that what Robert did before their betrothal was of no matter, that he was a good man and true who would love her with all his heart.†   (source)
  • My betrothed.†   (source)
  • And Illyrio says this boy king is betrothed to the Tyrell girl, which means we must face the power of Highgarden as well.†   (source)
  • He was dressed in the clothes of a peasant, torn boots and coarse garments, and you can imagine how shocked the rabbi was when he saw the betrothal agreement in Israel's hands.†   (source)
  • I refused, on account of his impending marriage, which pleased him not-although I suspect his betrothed feels otherwise.†   (source)
  • She is betrothed.†   (source)
  • And though Eragon risked discovery by his ghostly investigation, he, Roran, and Saphirahad to know if the Ra'zac had imprisoned Katrina-Roran's betrothed-in Helgrind, for the answer would determine whether their mission was one of rescue or one of capture and interrogation.†   (source)
  • When I returned here and the families of the clan accepted me as their new grimstborith, we thought it the perfect time to consummate our betrothal and become husband and wife.†   (source)
  • The redoubtable Lady Tarbeck responded by capturing three Lannisters, including young Stafford, whose sister was betrothed to cousin Tywin.†   (source)
  • They are betrothed.†   (source)
  • Princess Elia was there, his wife, and yet my brother gave the crown to the Stark girl, and later stole her away from her betrothed.†   (source)
  • When Ned met this Dornish lady, his brother Brandon was still alive, and it was him betrothed to Lady Catelyn, so there's no stain on your father's honor.†   (source)
  • When shall I meet my betrothed?†   (source)
  • And betrothed to my firstborn.†   (source)
  • My daughter, a girl of sixteen well into her hair-pinning days, was betrothed to the son of a rice merchant in faraway Guilin.†   (source)
  • It had been his notion to have the Brazen Beasts follow her betrothed and take note of all his actions.†   (source)
  • An end to your betrothal?†   (source)
  • When I became betrothed, I'd learned that my husband's uncle was a jinshi, the highest level of imperial scholar.†   (source)
  • And with Joffrey in his grave, by Dornish law the lion Throne should pass next to his sister Myrcella, who as it happens is betrothed to mine own nephew, thanks to you.†   (source)
  • She had dreamed of her wedding a thousand times, and always she had pictured how her betrothed would stand behind her tall and strong, sweep the cloak of his protection over her shoulders, and tenderly kiss her cheek as he leaned forward to fasten the clasp.†   (source)
  • We didn't hear much about the family Snow Flower was marrying into, except that her betrothed was born in the year of the rooster.†   (source)
  • Prince Doran's younger son has been betrothed to Myrcella Baratheon, which would suggest that the Dornishmen have thrown in with House Lannister, but they have an army in the Boneway and another in the Prince's Pass, just waiting ...†   (source)
  • When Lothar brings him our answer, he'll come wheedling back and accept a betrothal ...and to a daughter of my choosing.†   (source)
  • Your betrothed.†   (source)
  • We made a pretty picture sitting there on those quilts with our legs tucked under us just so: three young maidens, all betrothed to good families, cheerfully working on our dowries, showing our good manners to those who visited.†   (source)
  • He was to wed Arya Stark, but my good father of Frey had no choice but to break the betrothal when King Robb betrayed him.†   (source)
  • Age six is not too early for Contracting a Kin, if both families want to seal a betrothal for a prized couple, if the groom's family is willing to begin delivering bride-price gifts, and if the bride's family is poor enough to need them.†   (source)
  • Edmure sounded so unhappy that Catelyn had the unworthy thought that perhaps he had been entertaining notions of breaking the betrothal after the fighting was done.†   (source)
  • "Also," Lord Qyburn said, "the daughter of the Knight of Spottswood was betrothed quite unexpectedly to Lord Estermont, our friends in Dome inform us.†   (source)
  • The Maid of Tarth had been betrothed three times, but she had never been courted until she came to Highgarden.†   (source)
  • The day they were betrothed, he warned Brienne that he would expect her to be a proper woman once they'd wed.†   (source)
  • She was not quite one-and-ten, her betrothed three-and-ten; even so, she had been winning more oft than not of late.†   (source)
  • Brienne had been betrothed at seven, to a boy three years her senior, Lord Caron's younger son, a shy boy with a mole above his lip.†   (source)
  • "You must be especially beautiful," Lady Genna told her, fussing with her dress, "for at the final feast it shall be announced that you and Prince Rhaegar are betrothed."†   (source)
  • Each of her cousins had an admirer in thrall; the gangly squire Alyn Ambrose rode with Elinor, to whom he was betrothed, Ser Tallad with shy Alla, one-armed Mark Mullendore with Megga, plump and laughing.†   (source)
  • You would have served the Archon as a cupbearer and met with your betrothed in secret, but your mother threatened to harm herself if I stole another of her children, and I I...I could not do that to her.†   (source)
  • I was betrothed to her.†   (source)
  • That same year, Prince Doran tried to betroth her to Ben Beesbury, a minor lordling who was eighty if he was a day, and as blind as he was toothless.†   (source)
  • This is only a betrothal.†   (source)
  • All of it came pouring out of Brienne then, like black blood from a wound; the betrayals and betrothals, Red Ronnet and his rose, Lord Renly dancing with her, the wager for her maidenhead, the bitter tears she shed the night her king wed Margaery Tyrell, the mêlée at Bitterbridge, the rainbow cloak that she had been so proud of, the shadow in the king's pavilion, Renly dying in her arms, Riverrun and Lady Catelyn, the voyage down the Trident†   (source)
  • He espied his betrothed and grinned, with dignity, sardonically, with big nuggets of gold teeth.†   (source)
  • And I knew even before I could see who was driving, that it was the brother of his betrothed.†   (source)
  • Before the marriage, too, there is the long betrothal...'†   (source)
  • "On the happy occasion of the announcement of your betrothal," he finished, bending over her hand.†   (source)
  • I will betroth him and we will marry him early, and there is that to be done.†   (source)
  • He and his father had bought two silver rings, washed with gold, and silver earrings, and these his father had taken to the woman's owner in acknowledgment of betrothal.†   (source)
  • Soon, however, before she was out of her teens, she was to be betrothed to the son of a neighbouring wool-stapler.†   (source)
  • They signed his bond and late that afternoon he returned home with Mr Coldfield, walking along the same street as of the forenoon, with doubtless the same faces watching him from behind the window curtains, to the betrothal supper with no wine at table and no whiskey before or after.†   (source)
  • She was betrothed to a prince of Turkestan, and was traveling to Kashgar to meet him when her carriers lost their way in the mountains.†   (source)
  • Marriage was not an affair of personal affection, but of family avarice, particularly in the "chivalrous" upper classes...Betrothal often took place while one or both of the parties was in the cradle, and marriage when they were scarcely out of the nurses' charge.'†   (source)
  • He accomplished this—got his plantation to running smoothly (he had an overseer now; it was the son of that same sheriff who had arrested him at his bride-to-be's gate on the day of the betrothal) within ten years of the wedding, and now he acted his role too—a role of arrogant ease and leisure which, as the leisure and ease put flesh on him, became a little pompous.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Merriwether, who never let her curiosity go long unsatisfied if she could help it, asked him point-blank just what he meant by marrying one sister when he was betrothed to the other.†   (source)
  • After the complete moral collapse which had sent her to Atlanta and to Rhett, the appropriation of her sister's betrothed seemed a minor affair and one not to be bothered with at this time.†   (source)
  • Therefore he said to Cuckoo one day, "Now go and tell the father of my eldest son's betrothed that I have something to say to him.†   (source)
  • Then the merchant laughed richly, for he was fat and well-fed, and he said, "I have a second son of ten whom I have not betrothed yet.†   (source)
  • I will not have that slave in my kitchen, but I would have you send for my daughter-in-law, who is betrothed to our eldest son.†   (source)
  • And Wang Lung told his son that night what had come about, and the young man was grave and he said, "We must send the maid into the town to the home of her betrothed; even if the merchant Liu says it is a year too evil for wedding we must send her, lest we cannot keep her virgin with this hot tiger in the house."†   (source)
  • When it was finished and his son had written his father's name on the deed of sale of the grain and upon the receipt of the moneys, the two walked home together, father and son, and the father said within his heart that now his son was a man and his eldest son, and he must do what was right for his son, and he must see to it that there was a wife chosen and betrothed for his son so that the lad need not go begging into a great house as he had and pick up what was left there and what no one wanted, for his son was the son of a man who was rich and who owned land in his right.†   (source)
  • Immediately it opened and a woman servant stood there, wiping her wet hands on her apron as she spoke to ask who he was, and when he answered his name, she stared at him, and led him into the first court where the men lived and she took him into a room and bade him seat himself, and she stared at him again, knowing he was the father of the betrothed of the daughter of the house.†   (source)
  • In the near days after this he sent his second son away into the town and he signed the papers for the second girl's betrothal and the dowry was decided upon and the gifts of clothing and jewelry for her marriage day were fixed.†   (source)
  • Wang Lung was dismayed at three more years of this lad's anger and idleness and mooning eyes, for he would not go to school now two days out of ten, and Wang Lung shouted at O-lan that night when he ate, "Well, and let us betroth these other children as soon as we are able, and the sooner the better, and let us marry them as soon as they begin to yearn, for I cannot have this over again three more times!†   (source)
  • Then as if this were not enough Cuckoo came back from the grain merchant and although the affair of the betrothal had gone well, the merchant Liu was not willing that anything should take place now except the exchange of the betrothal papers, for the maid was too young for marriage, being but fourteen years old, and it must wait for another three years.†   (source)
  • Most of the girls who were not betrothed meant to be teachers.†   (source)
  • Why, you have both of them already, my dear betrothed!†   (source)
  • Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the betrothal was publicly proclaimed.†   (source)
  • Whatever he had been in the beginning of the betrothal, he was now a lover, eager, importunate.†   (source)
  • "And don't be an hour dressing yourself up," said William to his betrothed.†   (source)
  • Yet you could come here and expect to be betrothed to me before you left the house!†   (source)
  • In the course of the next day the first of the usual betrothal visits were exchanged.†   (source)
  • And so often William manifested the same hatred towards his betrothed.†   (source)
  • 'For what man is he that hath betrothed a wife and hath not taken her?†   (source)
  • She smiled and looked up at her betrothed with grateful eyes.†   (source)
  • When the prince and the princess had gone, Levin went up to his betrothed and took her hand.†   (source)
  • Not he, girl; though they do say that he has a betrothed at home.†   (source)
  • I am now your betrothed; and when you come back I will be your wife.†   (source)
  • Chapter XXXIV The Betrothal IT was a dry Sunday, and really a pleasant day for the 2d of November.†   (source)
  • She was betrothed to a good young man, too: a tenant of his.†   (source)
  • The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm of his maiden in her acceptance of him.†   (source)
  • He was backed up against a corner of the house of his betrothed and swearing like a heathen.†   (source)
  • He is doing his utmost to carry off Mitya's betrothed.†   (source)
  • The name of Edmond's betrothed was Mercedes.†   (source)
  • I'll take you there, I'll show you my betrothed, only not now.†   (source)
  • Marius, still separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the second.†   (source)
  • Levin spent that evening with his betrothed at Dolly's, and was in very high spirits.†   (source)
  • Suppose he finds out, and your brother, and your betrothed?†   (source)
  • Brother, my child is betrothed; she will become the wife of Pathfinder.†   (source)
  • Chingachgook and his betrothed witnessed the whole of this struggle from the Ark.†   (source)
  • He who becomes betrothed does not always marry.†   (source)
  • Well...listen, we'll go to see my betrothed, only not just now!†   (source)
  • He was young, he had an old father whom he loved, a betrothed bride whom he adored.†   (source)
  • She's with her betrothed, and no longer fears a Mingo husband.†   (source)
  • He looked at the Rostovs from under his brows and said something, smiling, to his betrothed.†   (source)
  • —though I suppose she must be, as you say she is betrothed.†   (source)
  • We weren't betrothed at once, not for three months after that adventure.†   (source)
  • Gentlemen, she is my betrothed!" he said ecstatically and reverently, looking round at them all.†   (source)
  • This is my betrothed; that pale-face is my friend.†   (source)
  • "I have no betrothed: I have refused him!" cried Natasha.†   (source)
  • I thank your honor; but Mabel is betrothed to another.†   (source)
  • Besides, your own fortune, as your father assured me, is almost equal to that of your betrothed.†   (source)
  • The present betrothed condition is perhaps better than marriage.†   (source)
  • "She is not my mistress," replied the young sailor, gravely; "she is my betrothed."†   (source)
  • She means by your girl Sofya Semyonovna, your betrothed or your mistress, I don't know.†   (source)
  • I am betrothed and love another," she said rapidly....She glanced at him.†   (source)
  • He's trying to get Mitya's betrothed for himself, and I fancy he'll succeed, too.†   (source)
  • As soon as I began visiting Grushenka, I ceased to be betrothed, and to be an honest man.†   (source)
  • I've given you a great promise, I am your betrothed.†   (source)
  • Worse than that, she was faithless, and had married one of the persecutors of her betrothed.†   (source)
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