Ahmed's marriage offer was accepted since his bride price was the most generous.

No one would make a marriage offer for her.

V. H.," but for the tenderly respectful letter of "Amelie de--, "decliningthe marriage offer for her sister.

Shortly after Mohammed's mother made a marriage offer for her son, who was awaiting trial for having abducted the girl.

Frey is Lord of the Twins, and the marriage offer was a strategic move as Robb needed the passage past Frey's castle.

You have seen the niece of Guidobaldo, and having seen her, can you still ask what compensation does this marriage offer Gian Maria?

An hour of questioning later, the two sons exchange a look, and ask if Granny Lin needs some time to consider the marriage offer.

He receives a torrent of marriage offers via Twitter and Facebook.

He had cruelly thrown aside Anna Hethbridge when a richer marriage offered itself.

Very often men throw acid at women who reject their marriage offers or attempts to start sexual relationships.

Objectively, the marriage offered Mary so many advantages that when news of it reached England Elizabeth was deeply angered.

Marriage offered a way out.

This naturally prompted the obvious alternative of a Portuguese marriage , and such a marriage offered to France precisely the opportunity she desired.

He knew now that the marriage offered an almost insuperable obstacle to any effort on his part to win the girl's affections.

Home work will be their serious business, instead of a disagreeable drudgery, or a way of getting through the time till marriage offers.

Civil marriage offers the legal benefits and responsibilities which would fully protect the children of gay and lesbian families, write Denise Charltonand Paula Fagan.