1 He was bold and nicely behaved; he had not come to woo the Princess, but only to hear her wisdom.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 2 Soon afterwards there was another knock, and another fox was at the door who wished to woo Mrs Fox.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE WEDDING OF MRS FOX 3 KENNICOTT was not so inhumanly patient that he could continue to forgive Carol's heresies, to woo her as he had on the venture to California.
4 I'll woo her as the lion woos his bride.
5 And now a day and another day hath sped; the breezes woo our sails, and the canvas blows out to the swelling south.
6 And wooed on Coosa's side Aurora's beam.
7 At length a man came from a distance and wooed her, who was called Hans; but he stipulated that Clever Elsie should be really smart.
8 Many wooed her from wide Latium and all Ausonia.
9 These words spoken, he clasped his wife in the desired embrace, and, sinking in her lap, wooed quiet slumber to overspread his limbs.
10 Half his destiny would then be determined, but the other half might not be so very smoothly wooed.
11 But him no woman's eyes had wooed.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 12 can only wish that your wooing may prosper as mine has.
13 His first wooing had been of the tempestuous order, and he looked back upon it as if through a long vista of years with a feeling of compassion blended with regret.
14 His second wooing, he resolved, should be as calm and simple as possible.
15 You suitors are not wooing me after the custom of my country.