What is "engagements"

Usage examples of "engagements".

The day of her departure, wishing to cause her an agreeable surprise, I left Rome before them and waited for them at the place where I thought they would put up for the night, but the advocate, having been detained by several engagements, was detained in Rome, and they only reached the place next day for dinner.

I am under the most solemn ties and engagements of honour, as well as the most religious vows and protestations, to conceal his name at this time.

Besides, I was in a great hurry because I had promised a pretty woman to breakfast with her, and such engagements, as you are well aware, cannot be broken.

I had business to attend to, but I gave up all engagements to lock myself in my room in order to answer it.

Of course I had to thank her and reply that my engagements did not allow me to accept her kind offer.

She had delivered herself of many yesterday in her engagements for to-day.

But I do strictly and sternly object to the scandal of violent separations, open breaches of solemn engagements, a public rupture.

Japanese won the first two engagements in this running battle, even though the cost had been suicidal.

There were two recorded Petraw engagements with Starfleet, and both had succeeded in a minor way.

In their last three engagements, her pod had served as support staff while the other pod took the lead.

It was a tractor-projector they had acquired on one of their first engagements, not long after they had left their birthing world.

I live I am only a man who his broken his word, failed in his engagements -- in fact, only a bankrupt.

Mr Elliot had made a point of leaving Colonel Wallis early, and Lady Russell had fresh arranged all her evening engagements in order to wait on her.