"Proposal of marriage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gate and returning to it at another, on her way to rout or dance. She took Angela with her; and De Malfort and Sir Denzil were generally in attendance upon them, Denzil's devotion stopping at nothing except a proposal of marriage, for which he had not mustered courage in a friendship that ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon
... physical peculiarities which one would forget as life went on. As to his periods of ill health, these she herself could have prevented had she told him the whole truth that night on the stairs, or the day before when she had parried his direct proposal of marriage—a piece of stupidity for which she never failed to ...
— Kennedy Square • F. Hopkinson Smith
... received Lord Banstead with a smile of amusement. As she had two protectors against a fifth proposal of marriage, she stood ...
— Viviette • William J. Locke
... Germany, while the only consideration offered to her was the hand of Prince Charles. But it never occurred to James to look at his schemes in any other light than his own. On the dissolution of the Parliament of 1614 he addressed a proposal of marriage to the Spanish court. Whatever was its ultimate purpose, Spain was careful to feed hopes which secured, so long as they lasted, better treatment for the Catholics, and which might be used to hold James from any practical action on behalf of the Protestants ...
— History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) - Puritan England, 1603-1660 • John Richard Green
... a sudden change took place in her countenance! She blushed deeply, her lip trembled, and then smiled, and breaking from among us, she sought our mother, and asked to speak to her alone. That letter had changed her destiny. It was a proposal of marriage from a man of good position and fortune, who had won her affections by a thousand acts of attention and tenderness, but had left her uncertain whether he intended to fulfill an only implied promise or not. True he had ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 • Various
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