Sentences with «to ask for one's hand in marriage»
He said something about asking for your hand in marriage! (rottentomatoes.com)
I didn't realize it then, but that speaker really needed to re-visit the book of Ruth, in which Ruth and Naomi hatch the plan to get Boaz's attention, and in which Ruth is the one to approach Boaz under the cover of night and essentially ask for his hand in marriage. (rachelheldevans.com)
Maybe you have always wanted to do a parachute jump together, which would make for the most daredevil, and badass, proposal of all time, floating at a few thousand feet above the ground while asking for her hand in marriage, assuming it's the man doing the proposing of course. (thefashionablehousewife.com)