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courtmartial; courtmen; courtoisie; courtroom; courts; courtships; courtsied; courtyard; courtyards; cous
  1. Courtship Made Easy; or, The Art of Making Love Fully Explained.

  2. Being a Hand-book of valuable information and counsel for the use of those who need friendly guidance and advice in matters of Love, Courtship and Marriage.

  3. Containing full directions for Conducting a Courtship with Ladies of every age and Position in society, and valuable information for persons who desire to enter the marriage state.

  4. A Manual of Love, Courtship and Matrimony.

  5. The Lovers' Guide to Courtship and Marriage.

  6. For 2 Darkeys Goose Hollow Stump Speech De Milk in de Cocoa Nut A Dutchman's Answer Lecture on Cats The Patent Screw The Auctioneer Hints on Courtship Dutch Recruiting Officer Spirit Rappings.

  7. His courtship and marriage partook of it.

  8. Mrs. Godfrey projected a match for me with a relation's daughter, and took opportunities of bringing us often together, till a serious courtship on my part ensued, the girl being in herself very deserving.

  9. I had made some courtship during this time to Miss Read.

  10. Courtship is confessedly better than marriage, and the being converted is infinitely nicer than the state of conviction.

  11. He is nearly blinded by the point of Leigh’s umbrella at their first meeting, and after an idyllic courtship they are wedded (1875).

  12. He has left in his diary a circumstantial account of his courtship of Madam Winthrop, also a curious “confession” made by him in church of the “Guilt contracted upon the opening of the late Commission of Oyer and Terminer, at Salem.

  13. Indeed, we were all more or less amused, except that miserable Mrs. Gummidge, whose courtship would appear to have been of an exactly parallel nature, she was so continually reminded by these transactions of the old one.

  14. Then Traddles and I played a game or two at cribbage; and Dora singing to the guitar the while, it seemed to me as if our courtship and marriage were a tender dream of mine, and the night when I first listened to her voice were not yet over.

  15. The "Sonnets from the Portuguese," among the world's noblest love poems, contain the record of her courtship and marriage.

  16. Occasionally a pair of hoopoes may be seen going through the antics of courtship preparatory to raising a second brood.

  17. No bird, not even the roller, makes so much ado about courtship and nesting as does the king-crow, of which the love-making was described last month.

  18. Some human beings may fail to notice the courtship of the king-crow, but none can be so deaf and blind as to miss the love-making of the gorgeous roller or blue jay.

  19. The large grey shrikes add the clamour of their courtship to the avian chorus.

  20. Any attempt at courtship after the style of the costermonger is resented by the whole corvine community.

  21. The courtship of a pair of green parrots is as amusing to watch as that of any 'Arry and 'Arriet.

  22. It was in the dawn again he confessed to his real apprehension,--only to my private ear, for he wished no more to alarm the others by day than to mar my courtship of slumber by night.

  23. It came on me like a flash three minutes ago, that this gross oldster, sitting of a Saturday sipping the good aqua of Elrigmore, with a pendulous waistcoat and a wrinkled hand, is not the lad whose youth and courtship you put me in mind of.

  24. During the short, fierce courtship that followed Vashti saw very little of Willie Strick, though she heard he talked much of emigrating, vowing he would disappear in the night and not come home until he had made a fortune.

  25. His Courtship of Emer* The young Cuchulain was by this grown so fair and noble a youth that every maid or matron on whom he looked was bewitched by him, and the men of Ulster bade him take a wife of his own.

  26. Any event which broke the monotony of their life loomed large, and in all matters of courtship curiosity was something more than keen, it was remorseless.

  27. But the simple forms of "call" and "sponse" were used much in courtship by the more primitive.

  28. It is placed in the midst to keep vividly before the mind of the listener the ardent singing of the frog in Spring during his courtship season, while we hear a recounting of his adventures.

  29. Did all Negroes carry on courtship in this manner in olden days?

  30. The trysts of courtship were kept at the stiles by which those surreptitious footways were intersected.

  31. Courtship leads to the cradle and the kitchen, it is true; but both cradle and kitchen are glorified and consecrated by the courtship that has gone before.

  32. Look at the torrent of toothless jokes that have been directed at the contrast between the romance of courtship and the domestic realities that follow.

  33. He, for a fraction of a minute, paused, deliberately closing the shutter of his mind against an unpleasant search-light that shot back on the experiences of his courtship and marriage.

  34. Without reflecting deeply upon this elaborate caution of his, the secrecy of their courtship made an appeal to a certain demand of her own nature for concealment and mystery.

  35. The subtle courtship progressed apace, and if any of Miss Wycliffe's friends noted her growing friendship with the conductor, it was merely to praise her sweet and unassuming humanity.

  36. PUNCH—“If this my hint will increase the number of readers, they will, unless gratitude be extinct, thank me for my strong recommendation as to the excellent entertainment provided for them in The Courtship of Morrice Buckler.

  37. The courtship of the Igorot is closely defined when it is said that marriage never takes place prior to sexual intimacy, and rarely prior to pregnancy.

  38. However, practically all courtship is carried on in the o'-lag.

  39. But during his permitted courtship the lovers had corresponded.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "courtship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.