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This view argues that it is truly an insurmountable task to determine which party was at fault in an engagement's demise, as I noted briefly above.

Nina Kotick: Love And The Law, Part I: Does An Engagement Ring Need To Be Returned? 2008

If an engagement's worth doing, then we need to recognize that ultimately lives could be put at risk, and leaders have to be willing to invest the political capital necessary to marshal support necessary to sustain the effort for whatever period of time conceivably could be required.

CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2002 2002

An engagement -- why, my dear fellow, an engagement's nothing at all compared with this.

The Lady of the Ice A Novel James De Mille

"If you go away today, the day that our engagement's made known, it's only fair," he persisted, "that you should tell me when I am to see you."

The Reef; a novel 1912

I'll bet you anything she'll say that, after all, she guesses the engagement's a good thing and that Imogene's

Thankful's Inheritance Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"Miss Gladwyne's engagement's formally announced -- it can't go on!"

The Long Portage Harold Bindloss 1905

"And others will have it as the engagement's broken off by reason of your losin 'all your money in Johnny Rogers's smash?"

Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

"If you go away today, the day that our engagement's made known, it's only fair," he persisted, "that you should tell me when I am to see you."

The Reef Edith Wharton 1899

The thing is to insist on one's daughter waiting, on the engagement's being long; and then, after you've got that started, to take it on every occasion as little seriously as possible -- to make it die out.

The Patagonia Henry James 1879

The thing is to insist on one's daughter's waiting, on the engagement's being long; and then after you have got that started to take it on every occasion as little seriously as possible -- to make it die out.

A London Life and Other Tales Henry James 1879