1 When I left college, I was sent out to Jamaica, to espouse a bride already courted for me.
2 Mrs. Fisher was small, fiery and dramatic; and her hands and eyes were admirable instruments in the service of whatever causes he happened to espouse.
3 Those who espoused Melanie's side pointed triumphantly to the fact that Melanie was constantly with Scarlett these days.
4 A pretty dispute followed, in which Edna warmly espoused her father's cause and the Doctor remained neutral.
5 Heyward gathered from the manners of the different speakers, that the father and son espoused one side of a disputed question, while the white man maintained the other.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19 6 The cause which the young man espoused was one so sacred that Beauchamp had only to comply with all his wishes; he yielded and contented himself with following Morcerf.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 88. The Insult. 7 But his heart was heavy, that Mother had NOT crowned him in the day of his espousals and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His 8 They are none of your unhappy wretches who begin by having no family, and end by espousing the public.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING