1 The things about him which she could not understand only made her love him more, and his odd, restrained courtship only served to increase her determination to have him for her own.
2 Captain Carey Ashburn's useless arm was hurting him again and moreover he was depressed by the thought that his courtship of Scarlett was at a standstill.
3 She married Frank Kennedy two weeks later after a whirlwind courtship which she blushingly told him left her too breathless to oppose his ardor any longer.
4 In the brief period of the courtship, he thought he had never known a woman more attractively feminine in her reactions to life, ignorant, timid and helpless.
5 The surrounding atmosphere was propitious to this scheme of courtship.
6 They had been married at the end of a year of conversational courtship, and they were on their way to Gopher Prairie after a wedding journey in the Colorado mountains.
7 In courtship days Kennicott had shown her a photograph of Nels Erdstrom's baby and log cabin, but she had never seen the Erdstroms.
8 She remembered him in the days of courtship.
9 Kennicott had begged her, in courtship days, to convert the town to beauty.
10 This amazed Nicholas and even made him regard Bolkonski's courtship skeptically.
11 There was nothing in Pierre's soul now at all like what had troubled it during his courtship of Helene.
12 The month of courtship had wasted: its very last hours were being numbered.
13 To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight 14 Nor would they go through the formal and protracted courtships which good manners had prescribed before the war.
15 We sailors, Miss Elliot, cannot afford to make long courtships in time of war.