Perform a marriage ceremony

Usage examples of tying.

Boupart himself was standing in the vestibule and Madame Aubain was tying the strings of her bonnet.

Three cots down, Aggie was tying her hair in rag curlers, using a mirror propped on her cross-legged lap.

And tying Fodder to the pump, he pushed aside the under-tunics which depended from lines, and were fluttering in the wind, and so made his entrance into the dwelling.

The passenger wriggled his hands into a pair of latex gloves and then set about tying Jeremiah Freel up with plastic handcuffs.

Long ago, evil men discovered that a ginseng child can be captured by tying it with a red ribbon, and that is why the plant is now so hard to find, the hunters say.

A group of Riflemen were tying strips of white cloth to the bare hornbeam that had broken through the tiles.

When he came back they saw one another first in the mirror she was standing before, tying a piece of Kanga cloth round her breasts over the yellow suit.

Tying it to the painter-ring, he called to the people on shore to pull easily and, himself guiding and holding up the loggy, half-submerged boat, as best he could, it was finally hauled out of deep water and its hapless crew helped ashore.

And, of course, it had the additional effect of tying him in tighter to the political hierarchy of the system, identifying him even more strongly with the ruling structures and individuals, giving him more of an incentive to fight to preserve Mercatorial rule.

So I guided Pook around the other way, to circle the first tree--and there was another branch tying into another tree.

I shake my traveling risers loose from my full-body harness, slide my hands over the crowded gear sling that we call a rack, find the two-bearing pulley by feel, clip it on to the riser ring with a carabiner, run a Munter hitch into a second carabiner as a friction-brake backup to the pulley brake, find my best offset-D carabiner and use it to clip the pulley flanges together around the cable, and then run my safety line through the first two carabiners while tying a short prusik sling onto the rope, finally clipping that on to my chest harness below the risers.

With her battered shirt refashioned into a sash that emphasized her slim waist, and one ripped sleeve tying back her unkempt hair, she actually looked rather dashing, if one overlooked the raw flesh that circled her wrists.

Jilly added, tying her blond hair back with a blue, ribbony scrunchie.

Instead, he starts tying flies, using a little kit of hooks, a vice that screws onto the coffee table, peacock feathers, tinsel, squirrel tail, and multicoloured threads, turning his home into an archive of sticklebacks, muddler minnows, torn thumbs, woolly buggers, waterboatmen.

When she had finished tying the laces she tested the front of the tackies with the ball of her thumb, pressing down onto my toes, then she looked up at me and smiled.