handfast

"Does he mean you to make them handfast on the spot if she says yes?"

"Handfast them quickly before someone else challenges," James pleaded.

Plus Dennie and me want you to handfast us, too.

It's not a marriage, exactly-but you can make them handfast" "Aye, well, but they ought to be counseled.

I can't handfast Zeldie, Hawk had told this man a decade ago when he'd been bound in service to his king.

Shayla turned to them, raised her hands and loudly announced, "This woman claims the right to handfast with The O'Connor."

I thought-I'm asking ... we could handfast, just a trial, one year... ."

"I half think Valyn used a glamorie on me to get me to handfast to Shana.

"Indeed she was pledged once before, since Deonara's Ardais kinfolk were eager to handfast her to one of their sons.

She was rigid, conceding only the cold tips of her fingers, but she said, in a voice only half audible, "I will handfast myself to you tonight.

She had been pleased when he and Leland had decided to handfast, and had been even more pleased when they chose to marry after the handfast year was done.

"Bard mac Fianna, called di Asturien, whom I have made my banner bearer," Ardrin of Asturias said, "we have called you here tonight to handfast you to my youngest daughter, the lady Carlina.

Within only a few months of being initiated, he had risen to the position of High Priest and founded his own coven in south London, with Janet Farrar, whom he would later handfast and then legally marry, as his High Priestess.