When Nianci became older, Mu Yi decided that it is time for him to find a suitable spouse for her.
He decides that Guo could be a suitable spouse for his foster daughter.
In his playful way he liked to urge young people seeking suitable spouses to pray to the Archangel Raphael, the saint of happy meetings.
Ms. Straus did not rank high on Mr. Sampson's checklist for a suitable spouse, either: She didn't know how to cook and had no intention of learning.
A responsible authority sets up or encourages the marriage; they may, indeed, engage a professional matchmaker to find a suitable spouse for an unmarried person.
It is rare that a single seon leads to a marriage; many succeed in finding a suitable spouse only after dozens of seon meetings with different individuals.
No doubt there is a shortage of suitable elven spouses.
Conversely, some parents desiring their children to find a "suitable Chinese spouse" sent their unsuspecting children on the trip while telling them it was chiefly a Language Study tour.
Her Highness went on periodic "progresses" throughout the Galaxy with the unstated intent of finding a suitable spouse, since the Stanley Doctrine decreed she must marry a commoner.
Mr. Fletcher and Miss Bosanquet carried on a correspondence during the summer of 1781, finding they had both at one time considered the other as a suitable spouse.