Susannah was this maiden’s name, The flower of all that country, This officer a courting came, Begging that she his love would be.
Any policeman who shall be known to be courting more than two cooks and three housemaids at the same time, or be found with more than five pounds of mutton in his possession, shall pay 2s.
There’s a pretty bobbin winder, they call her Mary Jane, She’s courting a snob!
For the past several months he ain't been doing much of anything, so far as I knows of, except pranking 'round and courting Miss Henrietta Farrell.
And I can't keep from thinking what a sight of difference there is betwixt this here Miss DeWitt and Miss Henrietta Farrell, which, as I said before, he was courting her before we moved to New York.
People do say his mother does his courting for him, she is so eager.
Percy's courting had been prosecuted mainly in the Bronx or in winged pursuit of a Broadway car.
When you go a-courting among us, you pretend to mean to buy a horse.
I know I am only courting the most excruciating mortification; but the real cause of my sending the thing is that I could bear to go down myself, but not to have much MS.
Surely it was courting disaster to plunge into a submarine defile, so dark and so narrow that it seemed an impossibility for her to pass without touching the jagged pinnacles on either hand?
When we get outside the three-mile limit and stop courting notice, you'll not fly long.
Now the important thing is to take the fellow out by the rear without courting notice.
The reason given is that, because it is the ladies' year, the Beans always lie the wrong way--in reference to the privilege possessed by the fair sex of courting in Leap Year.
He them with speeches meet 60 Does faire entreat; no courting nicetie, But simple true, and eke unfained sweet, As might become a Squire so great persons to greet.
That night they pas in joy and jollity, Feasting and courting both in bowre and hall; For Steward was excessive Gluttonie, 385 That of his plenty poured forth to all; Which doen, the Chamberlain Slowth did to rest them call.
That Greene should prefix the Omne tulit punctum of his popular prose romances was natural, but it was also courting the attack of Marlowe, Kyd, or any gentleman-poets derisively inclined.
Marguerite's eyes settled first on the complete title: "Lady Bluefields' First Principles of Courting for Ye Use of Ye Ladies; but Plainly Set Down for Ye Good of Ye Beginners.
Now ye only purpose in all God His world of ye arte of courting is to create love where love is not, or to make it grow where it has begun.
Courting is ye honest arte; if ye woman knows in ye woman her heart that she will not make ye man a good wife, let her not try to Cage ye man: let her keep ye cat or cage ye canary: that is enough for her.
He used constantly to ride through the streets with the beautiful Diana on his crupper; and he showed her so marked a preference over his wife that judicious courtiers never made the mistake of courting the latter.
Royal mistresses had become a recognized institution, fathers and husbands rather courting than dreading dishonor at the hands of the king.
He did not fear to take a deer From forest, park, or lawn; And without courting lord or duke, Used frequently to fawn.
I have been thinking, Rilla dear, of the old days in the House of Dreams, when Kenneth's mother and father were courting and Jem was a little baby and you were not born or thought of.
I have heard, Mrs. Marshall Elliott, that Miller is courting Mary Vance.
Then, if she must be deposed by her eldest son's wife, she would have been better pleased had he looked higher, and gone courting where there would be a little money to come home with the bride.
Faith, we of the city will all come courting to the Tannenwald if you prove better off.
So my advice to the young man who honestly goes a-courting is to keep talking earnestly, to occupy his mistress's attention withal, and progress in her favors during the abstractions of high discourse.
History represents them acting on the stage of the world, courting the applause of mankind.
Flirt away, my little chap, and make the most of your courting and honeymoon.
What he might further inherit was highly uncertain, and he seems to have taken unnecessary pains to avoid the appearance of courting a bequest.
If he chose to make love to a child, it was natural enough that he should begin bycourting her nurse.
It needs only a little jealousy to set a man on who is doubtful in love or wooing, or to make him take hold of his courting in earnest.
Before they reached the door that night, He all his love did tell her, She said when you a courting come, Don’t forget your umbrella.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "courting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: canvass; court; gallantry; serenade; solicitation; suit; wooing
