coming-on

I wish she did take a more genuine interest in the “coming-on” of the last calf, the prospects of the squash crop, and the yield and price of butter; but though she has learned to make excellent butter and bread, it is all against the grain.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

I will be your Rosalind in a more coming-on disposition, and ask me what you will.

As You Like It 2004

_In which a radical change of atmosphere is at once noticed; which shows how Miss Bentley repents of a too coming-on disposition, and lends an ear to the advantages of wealth.

The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man Mary Finley Leonard

In which a radical change of atmosphere is at once noticed; which shows how Miss Bentley repents of a too coming-on disposition, and lends an ear to the advantages of wealth.

The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man Mary Finley Leonard

The coming-on "Colts," should give courage to Glo'ster!

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891 Various

Chaucer says that the coming-on of the love-month produces in the heart of the lover

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

But come, now I will be your Rosalind in a more coming-on disposition; and ask me what you will, I will grant it.

Act IV. Scene I. As You Like It 1914

-- All you can depend on is the quick coming-on of final ruin and dismay: of all impossibilities, the most impossible is to imagine Mark Anthony capable of averting it.

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

The suggestion that I showed too much of a “coming-on” disposition in the Casket Scene affected me for years, and made me self-conscious and uncomfortable.

The Story of My Life Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 1908

Nothing _horrified_ him more than a woman who was coming-on towards him.

The Lost Girl 1907