Sir Guy asked, his hand on the bark of an enormous old oak tree.

If you asked my right hand I would lay it on the block, willingly.

And to think, I was considering asking her hand in marriage.

He asked her hand in marriage but she refused.

Then he asks Midori's hand in marriage and she accepted.

"Is it what we feared" she asked, her hand an his arm.

A month ago, however, a dear friend, whom I have known for many years, has done me the honor to ask my hand in marriage.

Would you consider me presumptuous if I asked her hand in marriage?

Won't the young dukes be asking her hand in marriage?