I assured him, as you may believe, that the action he had forced Mistress Holliday's suitor to take left me infinitely his debtor.
He is a suitor for your lady mother's hand," Colonel Holliday said, gravely.
AT length she yielded to this suitor rude:-- No grief so great, but what may be subdued.
Again, when a marine was the suitor for some favour, in rejecting his petition he put him through his exercises, which ended in quick march.
A gentleman, a rejected suitor of Olivia, who had learned how that lady had favoured the duke's messenger, challenged him to fight a duel.
Isabel hastened to the palace, and threw herself on her knees before Angelo, saying, "I am a woeful suitor to your honour, if it will please your honour to hear me.
His becoming a suitor seems to have been a surprise and disappointment to her; but if she thinks him a pupil of her own, or expects to govern the Priory in poor Emma's stead, she will be in his favour.
Emma's heart was more entirely in the power of her suitor than even their fears had anticipated.
The condition of a suitor was terrible; the ground was always trembling under his feet.
As often as it was proposed to me to take a suitor into consideration, I declared that I would not see him; the mere fact that he came as a suitor sufficed to make him odious in my eyes.
Whatever suitor shall lay claim to her, thou shalt send up to this terrace alone at flight.
Thereupon that evil-minded suitor laughed like a hyaena: and instantly my daughter fell into a swoon.
Nor has her maiden purity been sullied in the least degree by ever a suitor of them all.
And now for some time, no new suitor had appeared.
Mr. MacPhail was not the only suitor that Cynthia had to send about his business.
He had left Beechfield with many fears for Enid's welfare; but he was of course obliged to go, and had had no opportunity of declaring himself to the General as a suitor for Enid's hand before his departure.
This is the suitor for Rose--this is he of whom she spoke last evening.
And you must send this very evening to Lauterbach and have your brother-in-law's white horse brought over here; then I'll get somebody to send the suitor over to you in quest of the horse.
She did not know who the suitor was who was going to be deceived, but she was inwardly sorry for the poor young man.
And a fourth observed: "I'll wager he's another suitor for Amrei.
Illustration] Many a prince came from afar and entered the lists as suitor for the hand of Sudolisu, but none succeeded in winning her love.
So saying the chamberlain threw him into the deep abyss, shut the window, and ran to tell the king that there was no longer a suitor for the hand of his daughter.
If the demoiselle should so choose," said the dame of Longueville, "it seemeth to me that the rejected suitor might find it facile to disdain and to forget.
Could Templeton rise from his grave, with what resentment, with what just repugnance, would he have regarded in the betrayer of his wife (even though wife but in name) the suitor to his child!
The young maiden will only give her love-kiss to her sweetheart, the stalwart swain; an old suitor is spurned with scorn.
The King's daughter came down to the garden herself, and saw to her amazement that her suitor had accomplished the task she had given him.
If any suitor for her hand ventured to present himself, she would give him some riddle or conundrum to guess, and if he failed to do so, he was hunted out of the town with scorn and derision.
In place of offering his sister in exchange, the suitor presents a gift to the parents of the bride, at first to the mother.
Among these peoples, the original capture has in many instances passed over into an exchange in which the suitor offers his own sister to the brother of the woman whom he desires for himself.
When a suitor seeks to win the favour of the clan by means of a gift presented to the parents or the kin, marriage by capture passes over directly and without further change into the simple marriage by purchase.
He would not even allow himself to remember that he had forced Adrian Urmand as a suitor upon his niece.
And he would point out to this suitor how dastardly a thing it would be to take advantage of a girl so placed.
Before the hour of supper came, her aunt had been with her, and she had promised to see her suitor alone.
Another suitor for the hand of Linda now appeared in the person of the Prince of Kungla.
He was nearly of the same age as the young lady, who had been his playmate, and he declared that the rich suitor was a murderer; his heart told him so, and his presentiments had never yet deceived him.
A sixth suitor now appeared in the person of the young and handsome giant Kalev.
Up the glass mountain the successful suitor must ride when seven years and seven days have expired, when the princess will awake and give him a ring.
Having thus accepted hersuitor and provided for the comfort of his horse, Salme ordered the bridegroom to be ushered into the hall, where the broad table was washed clean and covered with a new tablecloth.
The inference he drew was, that this wealthy suitor of his daughter felt more about his own personal appearance before her than about the dreadful fate which he himself had so narrowly escaped.
Among the various pretendants to the hand of the Duchess was Louis, Duke of Orleans, who as next in succession to his cousin Charles was a suitor quite worthy of the hand of this high-born lady.
All these advantages moved Squire Stubbs, as much as the ruddy brown and manly form of the suitor influenced his daughter, to abate somewhat in the article of their gentry; and so the match was concluded.
If I should, I might furnish a new saw to the world: 'The suitor is not always to the beautiful, nor the husband to the soft of tongue.
After I became a suitor for the hand of George Hamilton's sister, I had closed my eyes to his shortcomings and, for some time prior to my Sundridge visit, had sought to further my cause with her by winning her brother's help.
Only at her mother's command, sternly uttered, she summoned strength enough to restore to her plighted suitor the piece of broken gold which was the emblem of her troth.
Still, he felt that Alice poke truth, and that his honour now required he should take an instant leave of Ravenswood Castle, or become a suitor of Lucy Ashton.
Shortly after, a suitor who was favoured by Lord Stair, and still more so by his lady, paid his addresses to Miss Dalrymple.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suitor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
