They be now suitors unto His Majesty: GOD grant that they may speed!
Even he, your wife, this lady and myself Are suitors to you.
They say poorsuitors have strong breaths: they shall know we have strong arms too.
If a youth or a grown man breaks the law he is brought into court by the governors of his tribe, who act as suitors in the case, aided by any other citizen who pleases.
So they would get to rest at last, but the next morning Cyrus was at the same spot and a much greater concourse of suitors round him than before, already assembled long before his friends arrived.
But early the next morning all the allies flocked to Cyaxares' gates, and while Cyaxares dressed and adorned himself, hearing that a great multitude were waiting, Cyrus gave audience to the suitors his own friends had brought.
There is little doubt she would have married a second time, but feared parting with her money, and it is thought that none of her suitors were particularly anxious to take her without it.
This bevy of suitors had a wonderful effect on the old lady, and she began to pay great attention to her dress and personal appearance.
Elizabeth had before refused some suitorswho had earnestly courted her.
The two suitors looked upon each other with wonder, grew pale and were dumb.
She did not add how often the said Tim had asked her to marry him, nor how many other suitors had in vain tried to win her favour.
Pretty girls like her are sure to get suitorsand set them by the ears.
While, however, she felt that she could best maintain her power by remaining unmarried, she knew how to temporize with suitors for political ends, and showed the greatest jealousy of all pretenders to the English succession.
She kept on with her weaving, putting these suitors off by telling them she would give them her answer when she finished her weaving--but each night she unraveled all the weaving she had done in the daytime.
Ulysses’s disguise suddenly disappeared, and with his son’s aid he shot the impudent suitors who had tormented his wife all those years.
This nobleman had connived at certain venal practices touching the sale of places, and the money of suitors deposited with the masters of chancery, so as to incur the general reproach of the nation.
Not one of the suitors rode up more than a little way, before he tumbled down again, head over heels, and it might well happen that arms and legs were broken in the process.
The princess's suitors were about to give up the contest, for none of them had won the prize, though each had done his best.
The princess's suitors were about to give up the contest; for none of them had won the prize, though each had done his best.
But the king was put out, and the suitors murmured and found fault day by day.
Time passed, and the princess's suitorsdecided to try their luck a second time.
At the foot of the hill gathered all the suitors with handsome horses and splendid armor, and round about stood all the people to watch the contest.
Now when the princess had completed her fifteenth year, a quite unheard of swarm of suitors made their appearance, as may well be imagined; and for all that she said no to all of them, they only increased in number.
Time passed, and the king set a day when his daughter's suitors were to make a third trial.
Just below the foot of the hill all the suitorsassembled with splendid horses and glittering armor, that shone like fire in the sun, and from round about the people flocked together in great crowds to watch their tilting.
The princess's suitors were about to give over the contest, for none of them had won the prize, though each had played a man's part.
She was still new to the stir of passion, although she had had numerous suitors and had been rather free in her relations with them.
The other suitors Anninka considered as something in the nature of indispensable furniture, to which a provincial actress is doomed by the very conditions of her profession.
Indeed, to give her her due again, she had never thought about suitors since her husband's death.
But even here national antipathies were visible, and Irish suitorsfor Spanish help came constantly into collision with Englishmen bent upon the same errand.
I would, that he who bears the silver bow As sure might pierce Telemachus this day In his own house, or that the suitors might, As that same wand'rer shall return no more!
But let us seek My son, however, that I may behold The suitors dead, and him by whom they died.
Hear, O ye suitors of the illustrious Queen, My bosom's dictates.
I therefore tell you truth; should heav'n subdue The suitors under me, ye shall receive Each at my hands a bride, with lands and house Near to my own, and ye shall be thenceforth Dear friends and brothers of the Prince my son.
Footnote 4: The allusion here is to the ancient custom of Swayamvara (self-choice), which is the election of a husband by a princess or a daughter of a kshatriya at a public assembly of suitors for the purpose.
The guardian of lunatics was the cause of insanity to the suitors in his court.
Due to their own education, they demand on the part of suitors a higher degree of education than the young men of their acquaintance possess.
Among superiors there are, in addition, some women who never marry because the war has so reduced the number of suitors thought eligible.
The suitors who came for her were weighed in this scale of perfect desert--to be sons of such parents and associates of her married sisters and sisters-in-law.
There be other suitors within, that make much noise to little purpose.
Hagen and Hilde eventually became the parents of an only daughter, who was called by her mother's name, and grew up so beautiful that many suitors soon came to Ireland to ask for her hand.
Among these suitors her guardian, Frederick of Telramund, was the most importunate; and when he saw that she would never consent to marry him, he resolved to obtain her inheritance in a different way.
In this hall do suitors use, either to attend on, or to walk up and down, and confer with, their pleaders.
The progress of society, however, required that the supreme tribunal should become stationary and permanent, that the suitors might know when and where they might prefer their claims.
The strength of the Sun Giant was as the strength of ten of the othersuitors of the fair princess.
The two neighbouring princes who were suitors for the hand of the youngest princess made a contract.
As the beautiful Spring Princess grew older many suitors came to sing her praises beneath the palace windows, but she favoured none of them.
Nothing," said our friend, "is more remarkable in the history of the County Courts than the very limited resort whichsuitors have to juries.
The suitorswho attended were of every class and character.
But suitors object less to the amount than to the intricacies and perplexities of the Table.
By the way, why should not the same option be given to suitors in Westminster Hall as is given in the County Courts?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suitors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
