Pledges

Usage examples of vows.

Father Paulin was not present earlier today, he was not privy to the exchange in which the temporary nature of my vows was discussed.

At that moment Nevyn panicked, shaking cold and sick, no longer a master of the dweomer but an ordinary man, just as when a warrior vows to die in battle, but as the horns blow the charge, he sees Death riding for him and weeps, sick of his vow when retreat is impossible.

I suppose they can get their kicks without jeopardising their vows of celibacy.

You will not fulfil those vows until death has separated your destinies, and perhaps not even then.

Nevyn hated every bitter truth he spoke, but his vows forced him to tell them.

Although his vows forbade him to argue or plead, he could become her friend, and in time, she would see that the dweomer was in its own way perfectly naturalor he could hope she would.

I shall rely upon your holy vows as a Healer to ensure that what passes between the king and myself does not go beyond this room.

Grace the Archbishop will surely attest, my trial of a religious vocation has entailed only simple vows, which are temporary.

Even were they permanent, such vows can be dispensed, as was done for my father.

Archbishop Hubert whether I, at any time, indicated a desire or intention that any vows be permanent.

Even the decision of a trial was not lightly undertaken, far less the vows themselves.

I swear before almighty God and this assembled company that those are not the vows I made.

Rhys Michael, and the two repeated the vows they had exchanged in Culdi.

Although you have not yet actually spoken the marriage vows, or consummated the union, there is no turning back.

On the day that you are freed from your current vows you will come to me.