Yet with all this we have the prevailing idea that (even in a civilised state of things) it is man who woos and woman who is won; man who advances and woman who retires; man who seeks and woman who shuns.
FIRST POET: See how this gingerbread woos the famished rhymer with its almond eyes, and its eyebrows of angelica!
As regards the quester himself, the maiden he thus woosis his reward and the noblest prize earth has to offer him.
Timbreo is represented by Claudio; through the medium of a friend, he woos the daughter of Leonato, a nobleman of Messina.
Here again, then, the murderer woos the nearest kinswoman of his victims, and, in this case, through the intermediary of their mother.
He woos his bride as ungallantly as Hotspur talks to his Kate, and he answers the challenges of the French with a boastfulness that throws Hotspur's into the shade.
And o'er her sense as when the fond night bird Woos the full rose o'erpowering fragrance stole.
He saw, and softening every wily word Spoke in more melting music to her soul, And o'er her sense as when the fond night bird Woos the full rose o'erpowering fragrance stole.
It is as though He woos more persistently in the very degree and variety of power that He uses so freely, and with such apparent ease.
But true love discerns the possible lily in the black slime bulb at the pond's bottom and woos it into blossoming flower, till its purity and beauty greet our delighted eyes.
Jesus is God brooding over us to woo out of us the love and purity, the purity and love, that He woos into us by the touch of His own warm presence.
His restlessness however daily increases, until at last he penetrates in disguise into the dark underground world and woos the fair earth goddess.
He woos her, I swear hewoos her, curses on his mother's grave!
I can tell it by thy smiling, As hewoos thee into Dreamland with a kiss.
God's way in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery voice that woos him aside--will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies.
He woos both high and low, both rich and poor, Both young and old, one with another, Ford; He loves the gallimaufry.
Your niece will not be seen, or if she be, it's four to one she'll none of me; the Count himself here hard by woos her.
With drumming of loud wings, with crow and quack and bursts of glorious song, he woos his mate; displays his splendors before her; fights fiercely with his rivals.
With elaborate toilettes and all the delicate trickery of her unnatural craft, the woman woos the man.
With gifts of roses and bonbons, suppers and theatres that cost more than the cows of the Kaffir lover, and ought to make the girl feel like a Kaffir bride, the man woos the woman.
THE WORLD Sonnet By day she woos me, soft, exceeding fair: But all night as the moon so changeth she; Loathsome and foul with hideous leprosy And subtle serpents gliding in her hair.
He that woos a maiden maun come seldom in her sight: he that woos a widow maun ply her day and night.
Let the man that woos to win Woo with an unhairy chin;" Thus she said, and as she bid Each devoted Vizier did.
John gave the keeper two whole sous, And Jeanne that smile with which she woos John Brown to folly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "woos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
