What is "suitor"

Usage examples of "suitor".

And, lest the expense or trouble of a journey to court should discourage suitors, and make them acquiesce in the decision of the inferior judicatures, itinerant judges were afterwards established, who made their circuits throughout the kingdom, and tried all causes that were brought before them.

Fair One with Golden Locks, that Avenant another ambassador from the king her suitor, awaited an audience.

I again began to hope that I had effectually disgusted my suitor, but one morning my governess told me that Father Freire was waiting to speak to me in the ante-chamber.

That he had transformed himself into a suitor the instant he learned she was to have Bonheur, the vast plantation above New Orleans, as her dowry was a source of distress.

I had very little knowledge of the world, so I could not make any comparisons between my suitor and other men, but my conclusion was that he could never hope to please any woman, and that he would certainly never be mine.

Many and rich Suitors are now about Chloe, and Dryas almost gives his consent.

That Summer Chloe had many Suitors, and many came from many places to Dryas to get his good will to have her.

While on his part he was reflecting that he had another duologue arranged for that very afternoon, and that, for the simultaneous suitor of two ladies, an open mind was almost indispensable.

I hired a dress, and betook me, shivering, to the High Street, too well aware that my form and appearance would soon draw me suitors enow at that throng and intemperate time of the Parliament.

Knut Gesling is a suitor for Signe, too, but him I am resolved to slay.

Bodger and Grift would force fancies and sweetmeats on her like a pair of maiden aunts, Nabber brought her gifts like an overardent suitor, and Maybor checked in on her by the hour like a nursemaid.

From recommended suitor to ineligible in the blink of a fortune, Jenna thought cynically.

He was a suitor to be proud of, faultlessly attired in his usual black but with a richly embroidered waistcoat and an elaborate jabot of fine Mechlin lace.

Apparently, there were too few suitors in Khet since the Javanite army drafted many of the eligible men to help fend off various military incursions by barbarians from the north.

Jynx treat her suitors in a most cavalier manner, had heard Jynx express herself fatigued by persistent avowals of devotion.