Finally, Moira Young's brilliant dystopic debut, Blood Red Road, crackles with attraction between the hard-as-nails heroine and her laconic, rascally love interest throughout, but the book's ending is fittingly laissez-faire: no troth-plighting, no permanent contracts, but a sense that the lovers are in each other's blood to such a degree that mere physical proximity barely even matters.
So their troth is plighted, and all set fair.
Just three and fifty years ago, One bright December night, This Man and Maid did pledge their love, And life-long troth did plight.
But he had not definitely plighted his troth yet.Republican leaders are furious.
And what, exactly, is this story to which the makers of "Twilight" (opening Nov. 21) have plighted their troth?
Among gay celebrities, Sir Elton John and David Furnish will plight their troth on December 21 at Windsor Guildhall, where Prince Charles married Camilla Parker-Bowles.
Though politically unaligned, I have plighted my troth to yes – so doubtless some troll will now call me a bitch.
The couple plight their troth, despite obstacles thrown in their way by a sexually jealous Mme Beck.
At long last, same-sex couples across New York are picking out china and calling the caterers, preparing to plight their troths as soon as next Sunday.
Not Mr Fry who, you imagine, could plight his troth to a centenarian or an 18-year-old without anyone turning a hair.
Enrico: The silly old cow / Is on her way now / She'd better not kick off / For today she plights her troth.
