You see, there were no unmarried women, and some of the older daughters of the Santa Rosans were already bespoken. ❋ Unknown (2010)
“Beware!” he thundered again, “My name is not bespoken.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
If so, in light of subsequent events his name should bespoken only in hell. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Clermont, for whom she seemed bespoken by her uncle, without the smallest knowledge how they might approve or suit each other. ❋ Unknown (2008)
She resumed, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the jeweller quitted his wife, he repented having bespoken her thus and, returning to his shop, he sat there in disquiet sore and anxiety galore, between belief and unbelief. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The handmaidens of the establishment, in their best caps, then handed the trays, and the young ladies sipped and crumbled, and the bespoken coaches began to choke the street. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In the race-week at Doncaster, it is no uncommon thing for visitors who have not bespoken apartments, to pass the night in their carriages at the inn doors. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Nor did the Doctor, of course, propose to stay for the after-piece, so they rose and left the theatre; the Doctor returning to Mrs. Portman, who was on a visit at the Deanery, and the Major walking home full of thought towards the George, where he had bespoken a bed. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I have bespoken, Sir, the civilities of your sisters, of your family: you forbid them not? ❋ Unknown (2006)
And here I left the remains of my beloved cousin; having bespoken my own place by the side of her coffin. ❋ Unknown (2006)
"You should have bespoken Hurth before you tried anything so foolish," ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (2006)
But even if their clothing isn't bespoken, it will be so customized-so personal, so tailored-that it will appear to be. ❋ Unknown (2005)
He had bespoken for himself a bedroom at the public-house in Norfolk ❋ Unknown (2004)
So often had this task to be performed, that the men got perfectly discouraged, and had to bespoken to sharply before they set to work. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
Supper being bespoken for the whole company, our adventurer and his friends went out to take a superficial view of the place, leaving his new mistress to the pious exhortations of her confessor, whom, as we have already observed, he had secured in his interest. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Peregrine, when he first saw him approach in this menacing attitude, put himself upon his guard; but being informed of his quality, perused his bill of fare, and having bespoken three or four things for dinner, walked out with Mr. Jolter to view both towns, which they had not leisure to consider minutely before. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Will Belton would have bought the ring long since, and bespoken the priest, and arranged every detail of the honeymoon, tour and very probably would have stood looking into a cradle shop with longing eyes. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Vicinironi, who, having no legs to stand on, had bespoken a sofa in his drawing-room! ❋ Unknown (2004)
Had he been able to choose from the two sisters, he would probably have selected Gertrude in spite of what he had said to Norman in the boat; but Gertrude was bespoken; and it therefore seemed all but unnatural that there should not be some love passages between him and Linda. ❋ Unknown (2004)
