Usage examples (31)

• She called her suitor "Isidore:" this, however, she intimated was not his real name, but one by which it pleased her to baptize him
• Once, when the suitor was a man whose character and position made the union very desirable in Eli
• The suitor was a well-grown young fellow in a grey suit, with a straw hat jauntily ribboned in red and black.
• If her suitor is a north Ugandan or otherwise familiar with the way things go, matters might progress quite smoothly.