bespoken

How To Use bespoken In A Sentence

• To please all was somewhat difficult, and occasionally some of them were scarcely so polite as they should have been to a perplexed hostess, who could scarcely be expected to remember that Lieutenant A. had bespoken his sangaree an instant before Captain B. and his friends had ordered their claret cup. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
• She resumed, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the jeweller quitted his wife, he repented having bespoken her thus and, returning to his shop, he sat there in disquiet sore and anxiety galore, between belief and unbelief. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• In the race-week at Doncaster, it is no uncommon thing for visitors who have not bespoken apartments, to pass the night in their carriages at the inn doors. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
• As long as Emmeline had been unbespoken in the marriage market there had always been the haunting likelihood of seeing the dreaded announcement, "a marriage has been arranged and will shortly take place," in connection with her name. The Unbearable Bassington
• The handmaidens of the establishment, in their best caps, then handed the trays, and the young ladies sipped and crumbled, and the bespoken coaches began to choke the street. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• We have bespoken three tickets for tomorrow.
• She resumed, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the jeweller quitted his wife, he repented having bespoken her thus and, returning to his shop, he sat there in disquiet sore and anxiety galore, between belief and unbelief. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• You see, there were no unmarried women, and some of the older daughters of the Santa Rosans were already bespoken. Page 6
• Clermont, for whom she seemed bespoken by her uncle, without the smallest knowledge how they might approve or suit each other. Camilla
• We have bespoken three tickets for tomorrow.