For the first time in my life I had received a proposal of marriage.

So then, it had actually happened to her, a proposal of marriage.

The marriage proposals she turned down were soon too many to list.

Various groups wanted her to speak, and the marriage proposals kept coming.

There have been a couple of marriage proposals, she says.

That's not a million miles away from this marriage proposal.

It was simply not something a lady did, making the proposal of marriage.

Why she had not at once accepted his proposal of marriage.

"That does not sound like a proposal of marriage, Richard."

In time she received a marriage proposal which seemed to be a good match and way to deal with her husband's family.