Arrived in Paris, Bonaparte was much courted by everybody.
Ay lally, o lilly lally He courted the king’s daughter of fair England All i’ the night sae early.
He courted the eldest wi’ glove and ring, Binnorie, O Binnorie!
King Easter has courted her for her gowd, King Wester for her fee; King Honor for her lands sae braid, And for her fair body.
He courted the eldest with broach and knife, Binnorie, O Binnorie!
The politician at last spoke of Luke as having courted too much animosity from the upper regions of finance.
He was so young, and his youth was so ostentatious, that he immediately courted the rebuke once administered to Pitt.
People knew that the writer whose songs they had by heart was courtedin the most brilliant world; they knew also that he had shown in various difficult junctures a high spirit of honour and independence.
She had been weary and lonely, she had been courted and tempted, but she had held fast to what she had said.
He wore an air almost remorseful and certainly rather apologetic; Lady Kilnorton did not wish to be courted by way of apology.
But when two years had gone by, when a rich shopkeeper from Arad had come and courted and been refused, and when the noble lord had suddenly ceased his Sunday afternoon visits to Marosfalva, Irma became more anxious.
I thought," murmured the other, "seeing that Andor has really courted Elsa this summer that .
He wanted the noted beauty for himself, because the noted beauty had been courted by so many people, and where so many people had failed he was proud to succeed.
Percy was not quite sure; he rather thought by his mother's letters she did not, though Caroline was universally envied as an object of such profound attention from one so courted and admired.
The solitude and sadness, the bitterness of spirit, which had separated her from the genial influences of a society that had courted her, was plain to him now at their fountain-head.
The "little mannikin from York," as he was called, always had the courage of his opinions, and rather courted such an attack than otherwise.
In a word, the pretty Frenchwoman was precisely formed to turn the head of a man like Lord Borodaile, who loved to becourted and who required to be amused.
I longed to display my power over the celebrated and courted Lady Merton; and to put the last crown to my reputation and importance.
And those brave people courted and embraced toils, danger, and even death itself, with the greatest ardour, in pursuit of this darling object of their universal wishes.
This victory gave so happy a turn to the affairs of the Thebans, that their alliance was now as much courted as before it had been despised and shunned.
But the poorer and less steady alumni of the rising school, especially those at war with the Academy, from which Varney was excluded, pitied, despised, yet liked and courted him withal.
How long she there courted the muses in secret is not known.
He courted persecution, though he hoped to profit, not to die by it.
As a combination, it can always throw a considerable portion of taxes from itself; and as an hereditary house, accountable to nobody, it resembles a rotten borough, whose consent is to be courted by interest.
I nevercourted either fame or interest, and my manner of life, to those who know it, will justify what I say.
What he courted her for just now was to keep him informed of all that passed in Huntercombe Hall.
This was the less wonderful, that he generally escaped at night to a gypsy camp, and courted a gypsy girl, who was nearly as handsome as himself, besides being older, and far more knowing.
To these ends she had joined herself in secret league with Russia; and now at the prompting of her minister Kaunitz she courted the alliance of France.
Their young ladies take the utmost pains to teach our officers French; with what view I know not, if it is not that they may hear themselves praised, flattered, and courted without loss of time.
As the Duchess of Palliano and wife of Don Giovanni Caraffa, this beautiful woman was much courted at her palace in Naples, where she lived in a most sumptuous way with crowds of courtiers and admirers about her.
Thus he thought it nobler to be attacked by foes than courted by cowards, and felt that he saw in their valiant promise a sample of their future manhood.
Glorious, ever memorable hero, who valiantly kept his vow, and voluntarily courted death, staining with blood by his service the tables of the despot!
In order to find some means of approaching and winning her the more readily, he courted her father (Esbern) by showing him the most obliging and attentive kindness.
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