His face was contorted, his speech had fervent bitterness, for even while he wooed this woman the man internally was raging over his own infatuation.
He had learned his lesson; he wooed her with the deference due to a young princess; no word or action of his displeased her after that, while he loved her with a love that was akin to madness.
He had not thought of loving and riding away; the proud, beautiful, gifted girl whom he loved had been wooed and pursued with the ardor and respect that he would have shown to a princess.
Here was another man's betrothed, and he had wooed her away!
The brothers kept glancing at her, half uneasily, but David wooedhis viol as if it were his one love in the world, and paid no attention to aught besides.
Never before had she seen so fair a man, though in very sooth she had been wooed of many king's sons and of chiefs from every part of the earth.
He could not well be wooed in such a temper, even if he were to be wooed at all.
Sister, I wooed a lady bright with eyes like thine, and hair,-- I woke from wild and dazzling dreams to find her false as fair!
He wooed me fairly, father dear, but thou did'st often swear Thou'dst rather see me in my grave than bride to Hengist's heir.
They spoke, as maidens often speak, of that ideal one By whom the wealth of their warm young hearts will at length bewooed and won-- Fond girlish dreams!
Yet, too late, I can see that if he had been free he would never have wooed me.
But he has always known that if he had been free and had wooed me, I should have felt that King Cophetua had come to the beggar maid.
He had talked of his mother in Maine, of his hospital plans for the winter, but not a word had he said of those moonlight nights when he had masterfully swayed her by the force of his own passion, had wooed her, won her.
Violent was her grief; but in the place of a fickle mortal lover, she became the fair bride of an immortal, the genial god Dionysus, who discovered her on the island and wooed and won her.
You have rioted in my home, and outraged the women of my household, and you have wooed my own wife while I was yet a living man.
All the greatest heroes of Greece had wooed her before she left her father's palace to be the wife of King Menelaus, and Tyndarus, fearing for her peace, had bound her many suitors by an oath.
It was not long before the intimacy of the two came very near the point of open scandal; but Byron was the wooedand not the wooer.
But James of Scotland wooed in person, and not by embassies, and he triumphantly carried off his strapping princess.
He wooed her ardently, and though she was more coy, now that she saw his passion, she did not discourage him, but merely prolonged the ecstasy of this wonderful love-making.
But she had never been duly wooed and won and made his wife--an experience which is the right of every woman.
And some slave somewhere purchased will defile my bed, before wooed by princes.
I never wooed thy daughter, lady, nor has any thing been said to me on the subject of marriage by the Atrides.
But Templeton brought new engines to work: he wooed her through her child; he painted all the brilliant prospects that would open to the infant by her marriage with him.
Whilst she listened a great many thoughts came into her mind--of their youth at home, where indeed, to the grunting of hogs, he had wooed her when she came out from conning her Plautus with the Magister.
She repaired so often to this holy place that a very rich Canon fell in love with her, and wooed her so urgently that the unhappy creature gave herself up to him.
Her downcast eyes and trembling lips recalled, in one rapturous rush, thoughts of the shy dalliance of the girl he had wooed amid these bowers.
But I hold that you cannot accuse Roy of deceiving you, unless he has declared expressly that he had never loved or wooed until he met you.
It must be almost an impracticable task for a great heiress to satisfy herself that she is not wooed pour les beaux yeux de ses ecus.
The thrush wooed his love in songs of gushing melody.
He would have wooed his neighbour's daughter thus, and thus he wooed the sister of King Rudolf.
Does he not know that in Egypt, before Moses lived, the insane were treated with kindness and wooed back to natural thought by music's golden voice?
Mrs. Connell had been living apart from her husband, and, having found a lonely and companionless life irksome to her, she began to long for a reconciliation with the man who had wooed and won her not so many years previously.
He escaped from this prison by impersonating one of the doctors, and, having made his way to Aix-la-Chapelle, wooed and won the impressionable lady housekeeper from Essen.
I have been wooed this time for myself, and on my own part I have said Yes.
A groan burst from his lips: "It is she, my wife, my lost Edith, still young and beautiful as when I wooed her to be my own!
Pleasure has wooed her softly to its flowery paths, love has been lavishly laid at her feet.
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