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Example sentences for "solemn promise"

  • At this moment Diana and her mother entered, and presented a petition to the king, wherein they begged his majesty to exert his royal power to compel Bertram to marry Diana, he having made her a solemn promise of marriage.

  • Florizel then called upon the old stranger to be a witness to a solemn promise of marriage which he made to Perdita, saying to Polixenes, "I pray you, mark our contract.

  • Florizel then called upon the old stranger to be a witness to a solemn promise of marriage which he made to Perdita, saying to Polixenes: 'I pray you, mark our contract.

  • Florizel then called upon the old stranger to be a witness to a solemn promise of marriage which be made to Perdita, saying to Polixenes, "I pray you, mark our contract.

  • At this moment Diana and her mother entered and presented a petition to the king, wherein they begged his Majesty to exert his royal power to compel Bertram to marry Diana, he having made her a solemn promise of marriage.

  • Solemn is applied to a case in which gravity is carried to its highest point; as, a solemn admonition; a solemn promise.

  • Consequently, the oath to support the Constitution of the United States is a solemn promise to do that which is morally wrong; that which is a violation of the natural rights of man, and a sin in the sight of God.

  • I made the dying woman a solemn promise that I would fulfil her last request, and divide my solicitude between Ernestine de Beaumesnil and the young girl the countess implored me so earnestly to protect.

  • We will all make a solemn promise to that effect.

  • I forgot that I am bound by a solemn promise, and this is the evil which distracts me.

  • I require from you a promise, a solemn promise, that you will go with me to Russia!

  • A solemn promise cannot be broken for any human consideration.

  • In the first place he went into a cell opposite to that which was still tenanted by Viola, who, it will be remembered, had received a solemn promise to be restored to her own abode that evening at nine o'clock.

  • Upon my honour, nothing would give me greater pleasure; but I am engaged to meet the duke at Tattersall's; and I am then under a solemn promise to dine and pass the evening with Diana.

  • She made him give her a solemn promise, not that he would never quit her, but that, if he did so, he would himself announce his resolution to her, and grant her one parting interview.

  • If ever he did apostatize, he was bound by a solemn promise to the Emperor of Morocco to turn Mussulman.

  • There is a circumstance of solemn consequence, which I have to mention, and a solemn promise to obtain from you; when this is done I shall be easier.

  • But, though I have given you my solemn promise to do this, do not expect, that I can tamely submit to the authority of Montoni; if I could, I should be unworthy of you.

  • I said I had a solemn promise to receive from you; let me receive it now, before I explain the chief circumstance which it concerns; there are others, of which your peace requires that you should rest in ignorance.

  • Madam, said he, before Mr Faulkland permitted me the honour of seeing you, he engaged my solemn promise that I would not intermeddle in your affairs.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after seeing; beaten yolks; can assure; damp weather; enter upon; eyes open; good bread; heir apparent; know whether; later period; many changes; much labour; ont pas; other officers; second self; solemn assembly; solemn declaration; solemn oath; solemn procession; solemn promise; solemn tone; solemn voice; solemnly declare; solemnly swear; tenth century; these may