Wooed

Usage examples of courted.

Colonel De Craye assiduously courted him, was anecdotal, deferential, charmingly vivacious, the very man the Rev.

He courted me, invited me to supper, played after supper, and, having won a large sum from an Englishman whom he had decoyed to his supper by telling him that I would be present, he gave me fifty guineas, saying that he had given me an interest in his bank.

Self-love and prejudice prevent a woman yielding till she has been assidiously courted, whereas I had asked her to share my bed in an off-hand manner, as if it were a mere matter of form.

When a girl has travelling adventures, one may safely say that she has courted them, for it is easy to be discreet in all countries if one wishes.

Born on the confines of the Franks, he courted the friendship of that formidable people, by the flattering imitation of their dress and manners.

Falco was either a progressive Conservative, or a conservative Progressive, a notorious fence-sitter courted by both sides.

The ballroom was the backup venue in the event of rain, in Miles's view a terrorist plan that courted death by overheating and oxygen deprivation for most of the government of the Imperium.

A servile crowd, in which he frequently reckoned praetors and consuls, courted his smiles, pampered his avarice, applauded his follies, served his passions, and waited with impatience for his death.

The most pious females courted the permission of imprinting kisses on the fetters which they had worn, and on the wounds which they had received.

During the first years of his reign, Baronius himself is in extreme good humor with the emperor, who courted the popes, till he got them into his power.

Their laborious reigns were exercised by the popes, the crusades, and the independence of Lombardy and Germany: they courted the alliance of the Romans.

He courted her father, aware that men likewise, and parents pre-eminently, have their preference for the larger offer, the deeper pocket, the broader lands, the respectfuller consideration.

Young Crossjay, whom she considered the least able of all to act as an ally, was the only one she courted with a real desire to please him, he was the one she affectionately envied.

The ladies Eleanor and Isabel, seeing his daughter to be the cause of it, blamed her, and would have assisted him to escape, but Miss Dale, whom he courted with that object, was of the opposite faction.

It may be that you were unblushingly courted in those days, and excusable.