Example Sentences

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The day of the storm and the cave was over, but with no outward word their inner selves had covenanted to meet again.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

The committee also reported that they had lighted on an agreement by which the Company had covenanted to furnish a person named Colston with two hundred tons of saltpetre.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

He was like a black man with cloven feet, riding on a black horse, and Alice fell down and worshipped him, as she had covenanted.

From Witch Stories by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)

The lords of my council who had covenanted to serve me; even they deserted me, and took whatsoever in thirty years I had put by for my children.

From Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by Keene, H. G. (Henry George)

They that had now realized the casus fœderis, the case in which they had covenanted themselves to desist from idolatry, were no longer the men who had made that covenant.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)