Word: vow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hear our reverent vow...
...first saw her. She was standing before a counter, and as I entered she glanced beseechingly toward me with her "violet velvet eyes, over which the silken fringes hung with such tender madonna grace." After a few such glances, that settled it. I could not help breaking my vow only to marry a girl with a million dollars and one lung. Soon she left the shop, and as I hurried past the counter where she had been standing I saw a card on the show-case. I seized it and followed, but when I reached the street she had disappeared...
...fervid vow - and we two must part...
Some luckless youth I vow to trap...
...vow that ere another moon shall wane