Promised

Examples

• He told me he had promised the Bishop to sign some kind of a petition against divorce. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Where's the beef and vegetables I sent home, and the pudding you promised? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Sir Thomas promised that it should be so. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But I promised to return soon. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The professor made me great acknowledgments for communicating these observations, and promised to make honourable mention of me in his treatise. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• But thou promised to teach us all thy arts for the money we pay thee, objected Hielman, who was of an avaricious turn of mind. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I even promised that I would hide my uncouth sentiments in my own breast. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The news that Dejah Thoris had promised her hand to Sab Than filled him with dismay. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The promised departure was all that Fanny could think of with much satisfaction. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• As Parker promised to return to Fanny in a week, she grew uneasy when almost a fortnight had elapsed without seeing or even hearing from him. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• They've been asking ever since when she's coming back; and she's promised me----oh! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Gurth thanked the Captain for his courtesy, and promised to attend to his recommendation. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I promised to work hard and willingly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Of all that mighty host, none but the two faithful spies ever lived to set their feet in the Promised Land. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Fate had been benign to the blissful dreamer, and promised to favour her yet again. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A tank had been promised and it had not come up and Montero was sitting with his head in his hand saying, The tank has not come. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He promised to follow my advice. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Yes, he had promised he would, but he had told _her_ to write first. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But why have you come so unexpectedly to repeat the question, when you only promised to come next Saturday? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• What do you mean by not coming to see me this afternoon, as you promised? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I have promised to marry Mr. Ladislaw; and I am going to marry him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• So then I promised to wait for him to the end of time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• You promised Mrs. Hale to be that woman! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It promised me peace; it promised me obscurity, as I thought. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And Briggs promised to be very cautious. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He promised to come again early in the morning. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Mr. Dashwood had of course found it out very soon, but promised to be dumb, and for a wonder kept his word. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• But she promised, and she is a girl of her word. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But I have promised that some one should watch for him, and give him instant notice if any new object should appear in sight. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• We went arm-in-arm to the public-house where the carrier put up, and I promised, on the road, to write to her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

Editor: Rhoda