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Перевод: betrothal

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1. He had also amassed a prolific following of female devotees, several of whom were anticipating betrothal and all of whom were surprised to hear of her existence.
2. The steward's gifts in verse 53 seal the betrothal.
3. Accompanying the maintenance of old standards, even though social conditions were changing, often dramatically, was the survival amongst many sections of the working class (especially the rural) of the tradition that sexual relationships could begin at betrothal to a steady boyfriend and the corollary was that a pregnant woman would be married by the father, though as we shall see, social transformations were to weaken this.
4. In La Fille Mal Garde Mother Simone does this when she triumphantly finishes her Clog Dance on the arms of her more graceful neighbours, just as all the guests but Alain do after the Betrothal and they all dance out, arms linked to celebrate.
5. The wedding was set for October, and Elizabeth was offered a reward, for which she was sweetly grateful; the Maclean was invited to bring his heir to Inveraray for the betrothal.
6. For Charlie Nicholas his betrothal to his wife Claire and the more cosy prospect of a future as a father was apparently a watershed in his development.
7. Bitterly resigned to the betrothal, she took a fiendish revenge.
8. Later, apparently unseen by others, she dances through the betrothal party at which he is confronted by Madge, the Witch, who foretells that he will never marry.
9. The new marriage laws (especially those after 1836, which granted the right to marry to nonconformist chapels as well as civil registrars) had the effect of making the betrothal less binding and of sharply differentiating the married from the unmarried, hence making the difference between licit and illicit sex more important.
10. In a fairy-tale scene he kisses her and she becomes beautiful, but after their betrothal she confesses her past sins and the weakness of her nature, imploring Leo to love her only in a spiritual sense.
11. Philip of Valois was the Count of Hainault's brother-in-law, and it was probably the Valois family who prompted the betrothal of Prince Edward to the count's daughter Philippa.
12. The ceremony was called "lub z morzem", the betrothal to the sea.
13. On a door lintel at Hill there is an inscription, "J.D. - B.G.1692", which followed a custom of the time and probably commemorated the date of their wedding or betrothal.