"Betroth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... trow they did not part in scorn: Lovers long-betroth'd were they: They too will wed the morrow morn: God's blessing on ...
— Poems Every Child Should Know - The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library • Various
... apud. Besides krom. Besiege siegxi. Besot bestigxi. Besprinkle sxprucigi sur. Best (adj.) la plej bona. Best (adv.) la plej bone. Bestial besta. Bestir, one's self sin movetadi, vigligxi. Bestow donaci. Bet veti. Bet veto. Betimes frue. Betray perfidi. Betroth fiancxigi. Betrothing fiancxigxo. Better (adj.) pli bona. Better (adv.) pli bone. Between inter. Bevel trancxi oblikve. Beverage trinkajxo. Bewail ploregi. Bewilder konfuzi. Bewitch ensorcxi. Bewitchment ensorcxo. ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... happens, that the Man has not so much of their Money ready, as he is to pay for his Wife; but if they know him to be a good Hunter, and that he can raise the Sum agreed for, in some few Moons, or any little time, they agree, she shall go along with him, as betroth'd, but he is not to have any Knowledge of her, till the utmost Payment is discharg'd; all which is punctually observ'd. Thus, they lie together under one Covering for several Months, and the Woman remains ...
— A New Voyage to Carolina • John Lawson
... favor. effeiris, affairs. ene, eyes. fallow, betroth. forgit, made, created. gife, if. halsit, hailed. houris, morning orisons. laif, rest. lemys, rays. lukit, looked. mansuetude, gentleness. morrow, morning. muddir, mother. orient, eastern. quhen, when. quhois, whose. quhyll, while. ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... the first of days, The first of men and maids did meet and smile, And Aphrodite did their hearts beguile, So hands met hands, lips lips, with no word said Were they enchanted 'neath that leafy aisle, And silently were woo'd, betroth'd, and wed. ...
— Helen of Troy • Andrew Lang
... Saying: "These golden circlets once more their office performing Firmly a tie shall unite, which in all things shall equal the old one, Deeply is this young man imbued with love of the maiden, And, as the maiden confesses, her heart is gone out to him also. Here do I therefore betroth you and bless for the years that are coming, With the consent of the parents, and having ...
— Hermann and Dorothea • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
