And that isn't just a promise - that's a sacred vow.

He'd made a promise to her, more than a promise, a sacred vow.

His voice rang out suddenly with the strength of one taking a sacred vow.

"We will," he promised, and his words bore the ring of a sacred vow.

By challenge, trial, and sacred vow, Let her join the Circle now.

They didn't know what he had learned from his doctors, one of whom had broken a sacred vow to tell him the truth.

Some instinct deep within him, however, prevented his making it a sacred vow.

She really is my wife, joined to me by sacred vow.

With me it was a sacred vow, a question of life and death.

I have sworn a sacred vow not to take a life until my tapasya is complete.