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But it was not in the time of his exile and sorrow, that she who has plighted her faith to him should, with the flattering world, turn her back upon him.

From The Surgeon's Daughter by Scott, Walter, Sir

"The Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald has plighted her troth to me."

From Windsor Castle by Ainsworth, William Harrison

Your niece has plighted her faith to me, and I have plighted mine to her.

From Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Dickens, Charles

"But, Sir George, Dorothy has plighted her troth to me."

From Heiress of Haddon by Doubleday, William E.

"And, by the same token, has plighted her troth to you."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various