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Updated: June 1, 2025
She did not indeed let her imagination range beyond the day of plighting: after that everything faded into a haze of material well-being, in which the personality of her benefactor remained mercifully vague.
Georgia's place was by my side, while Elitha, Leanna, and Frances each grouped with husband and children in front among friends, who had come to witness the plighting of vows between my hero and me.
I do not wish to see Eve plighting her faith at the altar, to any one bearing that, accursed name!" "I shall plight my faith, if ever it be done, dear cousin John, to the man, and not to his name." "No, no he must keep the appellation of Powis by which we have all learned to love him, and to which he has done so much credit."
And when such an exchange has come between the two, they are past plighting, they are the wedded one. Nesta felt it, without asking whether she was loved. She was his. She had not a thought of the word of love or the being beloved.
Old superstitions had begun to revive among them, and hence the practice of youths and maidens plighting their troth at the stone circles dedicated, as it was supposed, to Odin, in whom, however, they had long ceased to nourish any of the sincere belief which was entertained by their heathen ancestors.
While Henry's plenipotentiaries had been plighting their faith to those of Philip, it had been arranged that France should sustain, by subsidies and armies, the scheme upon which Paul was bent, to drive the Spaniards entirely out of the Italian peninsula. The king was to aid the pontiff, and, in return, was to carve thrones for his own younger children out of the confiscated realms of Philip.
Aminta's lips formed 'mine, without utterance. Meanwhile his hand or a wizardry subdued her will, allured her body. She felt herself being drawn to the sign and seal of their plighting for life. She said, 'Matthew, softly in protest; and he said, 'Never once yet! She was owing to his tenderness.
Your royal highness must have been misinformed." "I have it from herself, nevertheless." "And your royal highness, that bears the name of the most virtuous woman in Paris, is not shocked at her unchastity?" "Unchastity! You talk of unchastity, who, while she was plighting her troth to this same Eugene, were not ashamed to prostitute her to Strozzi!
She had health and beauty, and money to gild these gifts; not that he stipulated for money with his bride, but it adds a lustre to dazzle the world; and, moreover, the pack of rival pursuers hung close behind, yelping and raising their dolorous throats to the moon. Captive she must be. He made her engagement no light whispering matter. It was a solemn plighting of a troth. Why not?
While Henry's plenipotentiaries had been plighting their faith to those of Philip, it had been arranged that France should sustain, by subsidies and armies, the scheme upon which Paul was bent, to drive the Spaniards entirely out of the Italian peninsula. The king was to aid the pontiff, and, in return, was to carve thrones for his own younger children out of the confiscated realms of Philip.
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