Word: troth
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...offices, they are pitiably anxious to have fun on their precious fortnight's vacation, to put their best foot forward with the other guests, perhaps even to find a wife or husband, for Proprietor Abe Tobias offers a free honey moon the following year to any couple whose troth is plighted at Kare-Free. There is Henrietta Brill, a fat girl with Communist tendencies. There is Miriam Robbins who shamefully chases after Pinkie Aaronson, who owns two hat shops, wears solid silk pajamas and has a way with the "pigeons" (girls). There is good-hearted Fay Fromkin, whose girl...
...sign of their platonic troth, Moody wore a ring which Harriet had given him. Once there was a three-weeks' lapse in his letters from Europe. His shamefaced but still flowery explanation leaves a modern reader in doubt whether he had spent the interim in the gutter or had just not felt like writing: "After a time came rebellion and reckless grasping after life or what bore the semblance and wore the red flower of life, careless whether-nay, even glad if its heart were poisoned. I took-O sweet and noble soul, this will pain you cruelly...
...wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight my troth." Cried Sophie (with no word from the cleric): "I Sophie take thee James, etc., etc." The onlookers were agreeably shocked...
...Troth," replied a tradesman, "I am afraid your Eminence would never make a living selling donkeys...
...land, and acknowledges the welcome given him by the chorus. Clytaemnestra appears, followed by attendants carrying rich clothes of purple. She describes the anxiety which she had felt for the king's safety, and tells how she had sent Orestes, the pledge and symbol of their plighted troth, to the home of a distant friend, that he might not be exposed to danger in case of a revolt in the land. Agamemnon, enjoining the queen to treat kindly the captive maiden Cassandra, descends from his chariot and enters the palace...