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When she avowed the girlish simplicity with which she obstinately refused to change her name, because, in her apprehension, the troth-plight betwixt her and her lover might be thereby prejudiced, it was impossible for Hereward not to acknowledge her tenderness, by snatching her to his bosom, and impressing his grateful thanks upon her lips.
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The dispute thus agitated, however, ended by the lovers going through an emblematic ceremony of their troth-plight, of which the vulgar still preserve some traces.
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"This your son-in-law, and son unto the King, whom heavens directing, is troth-plight to your daughter" Shakespeare.
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Quickly: and certainly she did you wrong; for you were troth-plight to her.
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And then they troth-plight each other to love, and never to fail whiles their life lasteth.
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Hereward's mission to, 345-347; sails for Cornwall to rescue his love, 347; sends forty Danes to demand fulfilment of troth-plight, 348;
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Margaret Vernon had redeemed her troth-plight, given to Sir Thomas Stanley early in the summer, and in the former part of the day she had been joined in holy wedlock with her lover by Father Nicholas Bury, with more of the Roman Catholic ritual than Queen Elizabeth's ministers would have approved of had they known it.
Heiress of Haddon William E. Doubleday
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"_She_ war not troth-plight even," interrupted the other eagerly, with a contemptuous nod, indicating by a quick motion a broken nose, which might have hindered Fredrika's chances of matrimony.
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Prince Sigtryg of, his troth-plight with daughter of King
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Alef demanding the fulfilment of the troth-plight between himself and his daughter, and threatening vengeance if it were broken.
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