"Proposal of marriage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to Wrexby, rejoice her with a declaration of love, astound her with a proposal of marriage, bewilder her little brain with hurrying adjectives, whisk her up to London, and in little more than a week be sailing on the high seas, new born; nothing of civilization about him, save a few last very first-rate cigars which he projected to smoke on the poop of the ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... realm was not at all to be disregarded. Charles thought this a very important consideration, and, on the whole, decided that the affair should go on; and commissioners were sent to make a formal proposal of marriage at the Portuguese court. Charles wrote letters to the mother of the young lady, and to the young lady herself, expressing the personal interest he felt in obtaining ...
— History of King Charles II of England • Jacob Abbott
... whom I always believed a most simple, submissive, timid, almost idiotic person—instead of being delighted with this proposal of marriage, ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue
... He took off his soft hat and ran a hand over his hair, and he straightened his tie. These preliminaries to a proposal of marriage being disposed of, he ...
— The Street of Seven Stars • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... before again becoming a sedentary, I am to propose a decisive test of plaintiff's bona fides in desiring my insignificant self as a spouse. Herewith I beg humbly to have the honour of renewing my formal proposal of marriage, and moreover will pledge myself in most solemn and business-like style never on any account, whether so permitted by laws of country or vice versa, to take to myself a single additional native ...
— Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. • F. Anstey
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