Sentence examples for this betrothal from inspiring English sources

Someone had tipped off a newspaper, The Nation, for this betrothal was extraordinary in a conservative African nation.

This betrothal was, however, short-lived and Marie never managed to conclude a political marriage for her youngest daughter, instead marrying her to the Italian-born Archduke Anton of Austria Tuscany in 1931.

He portrayed himself in 1493, just betrothed, holding sea holly (the betrothal flower) and with fashionable slashed sleeves; he painted himself, most famously, in 1500, gazing full-face at the viewer from a nimbus of long flowing hair (see the first illustration of this piece).

Rembrandt left only a handful of drawings in metalpoint and they were all made during this three-day betrothal trip to Friesland.

"When the girls reach nine or ten they are ready to get married, and it is shameful for them to come to school," explains a local, firmly adding that "marriage" in this sense means betrothal, not conjugality.

This is a betrothal ceremony performed between the 2 joining families.

This made her available for the specialized procedure for the betrothal of an epikleros, a type of court judgement called epidikasia.

Similarly, The Betrothal in Santo Domingo exerts an extraordinary page-turning force while transcending mere gruesome entertainment, this time playing on racial prejudice.

But that fall the betrothal was broken off.

First is the betrothal (erusin), which includes the reading of the marriage contract (ketubba) and the giving of the ring with a declaration, "Behold you are consecrated to me by this ring according to the law of Moses and Israel," accompanied by certain benedictions.

In the betrothal scene the intensity of his pirouettes and the sharpness with which he opens jumps are electrifying.