The wooer was a Mr. Child, son of a brewer at Abingdon, to whom the lady sent a challenge. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference
He forsook, forgot her, a wooer traitorous-hearted. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
And the ancient wooer slowly rose to his full height. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Hour Stories] Reference
When comes a likely wooer? who protests thou'rt fair?. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
We next hear of him in 1584 as the wooer and winner of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Every fresh trial terminated in favour of the poor wooer. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
Pass'd that deed forgotten, a royal wooer had earn'd thee?. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
You went out of doors with your wooer; just to see him off?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference
He forsook, forgot her, a wooer traitorous-hearted. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
Tethys adopt thee, her own dear grandchild's wooer usurping?. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
When comes a likely wooer? who protests thou'rt fair?. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
Her strange wooer grew more eager, for the moments were passing, and. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
D'Rubiera was an impatient and peremptory wooer, and he won the day. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
Whiles we shut the gates upon one wooer, another knocks at the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Merchant of Venice] Reference
Tethys adopt thee, her own dear grandchild's wooer usurping?. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
"Mis 'Patridge," timidly said the agitated wooer, approaching nearer. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Hour Stories] Reference
It was a hasty wooing, and the queen herself was first of all the wooer. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
‘The wooer is powerful, O Sultan, and nothing is impossible to him.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Brown Fairy Book] Reference
All were well-mannered, hard-working, and pretty, and yet none has had a wooer. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Fairy Book] Reference
“Shuttle, my shuttle, weave well this day, And guide the wooer to me, I pray.”. From Wordnik.com. [Household Tales] Reference
I should get that promotion which alone would send me back to her an eligible wooer!. From Wordnik.com. [Gulliver of Mars] Reference
You must act be a wooer, and not expect the board simply to warm up to you right away. From Wordnik.com. [Advice To A New CEO: How To Handle Your Board] Reference
“Needle, my needle, sharp-pointed and fine, Prepare for a wooer this house of mine.”. From Wordnik.com. [Household Tales] Reference
A wooer gained, she thought, might come as a blessed counter-interest to a guardian lost. From Wordnik.com. [St. Peter's Fair]
Hadvor remained in her castle, and had made preparations to receive her wooer when he came. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Fairy Book] Reference
From Jennifer Love Hewitt to Jessica Simpson to Jennifer Aniston, this guy ` s a major wooer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2010] Reference
And the three sisters, now that they no longer insulted the sun, had each a wooer within a week. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Fairy Book] Reference
But as he did not trust himself as a wooer, he determined to send his old mother on the mission. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Fairy Book] Reference
“Spindle, my spindle, haste, haste thee away, And here to my house bring the wooer, I pray.”. From Wordnik.com. [Household Tales] Reference
He was bold as a wooer, but the veriest coward when it came to approaching the fair one's father. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
"The law says you should tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothin 'but the truth," persisted the literal wooer. From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
There is a touch of imperiousness in that last question that augurs badly for a false wooer; but the imperiousness suits her. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
She had felt the need of some higher will than her own to strengthen her resolve to steel her heart against this fiery wooer. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference
The wooer hereupon retires, singing a verse expressive of mortification, but soon re-enters with a re-assured air, singing. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
Tom laughed at the picture thus drawn of three boisterous youngsters employed in causing an ardent wooer to take his departure. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts of Lenox] Reference
Annapla had decidedly an industrious wooer, more constant than the sun itself, for he seemed to shine in her heavens night and day. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
When Fortune frowns upon her worthy wooer, it is still permitted him to think how pleasant it will be ere long to bask in her smiles. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
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