Pèp, with a paternal air, had allowed the youths to remain after the time for the wooing had passed; he felt sorry for the poor boys who must walk home through the rain.
Even the boys who had ventured to discuss the wooing with Señor Pèp seemed intimidated by the Ironworker's presence.
This wooing smelled to him of gunpowder, and he affirmed it with a smile of joy and satisfaction which disclosed the whiteness of his wolf-cub teeth in his dark oval face.
Bright as the glow-worm, when wooing his mate, was the time of her childish experience.
Rosalind, disguised as a young man, instructs Orlando to practice his wooing on her.
When the women returned, Meg manoeuvred greatly, and, in fine, successfully, that no one should enter the little parlour to interrupt the wooing she intended should take place there.
DOES-- The rose in bud respond to the wooing breath of the mornings of June?
Our wooing doth not end like an old play: Jack hath not Jill.
Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd In russet yeas, and honest kersey noes.
Though once I would have said that wooing a shield-maiden was a very similar sport," Rolf added, pleasantly.
He had always been the most pertinacious of Callista's followers; an older man than any of the others, he brought to bear on his wooing the persistence and determination of his years.
And the German "barbari" might have taken offence if the prince's wooing of his wife and his mistress had been too openly simultaneous.
So that under the circumstances the left–handed wooinghad to seek for awhile the shelter of the Casino;—furnishing thus an excellent illustration of the utility of that convenient institution.
But Anna, if restrained in her own behalf, thought that this young spark's wooing of her friend should be curbed.
Of the wooing of Nellie Roe by her constant lover much might be written of vastly greater interest than many things herein recorded.
Daphnis too played on Philetas' pipe a love-song and danced with Chloe the story of the origin of the pipe, Pan's wooing of the maid Syrinx.
After all, I thought, 'twas a dishonourablewooing that Marston was about.
As for me, 'twas as though a clown should run a-wooing after a princess.
For thee her wooing hour has passed, The singing birds have flown, And winter comes with icy blast To chill thy buds unblown.
After that they set off on a wooing journey to Hauskuldstede, and had a hearty welcome.
Puddock he would a-wooing rid Sword and pistol by his side.
The nursery rhyme of the frog who would a-wooing go is clearly a variant of this, and has thus a sure pedigree of three hundred years; cf.
Then shall she have thewooing of the son of a Monacan woman.
This is no flowery wooing such as women love," he said; "but then you are like no other woman.
Audrey that will not be called 'mademoiselle' nor have the wooingof the son of a French chief!
His wooing was prosperous; in July, 1773, he married Miss Sneyd.
His wooing of Madam Winthrop, for instance, was long and arduous and ended in failure.
I hope you have observation in you, and know our humours; we come not a-wooing to your father.
I would desire no better wooing of so bad suitors.
