wooers

Traditionally men have been the suitors and the wooers and women have done the love-work needed to make life more than a series of dates.

The money has gone, so make love our alternative currency 2012

That, in turn, could prove attractive to other potential wooers.

John Wood Group Finds Suitors Andrew Peaple 2011

She ran with intellectuals, entrepreneurs and celebrities alike; among her many wooers were New Yorker founder Harold Ross, aviation magnate Howard Hughes and actor Cary Grant.

Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead Sarah Kaufman 2011

The dual stability categorical currents of a transformation have been Petruchio's plead to tame a shrewish Kate, whom he has customarily married, as good as a foe in in in in between multiform fervent wooers to capture a pleasing Bianca, Kate's younger sister, right widely separated accessible for matrimony given Kate has been to a altar.

Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

The dual stability categorical currents of a transformation have been Petruchio's plead to tame a shrewish Kate, whom he has customarily married, as good as a foe in in in in between multiform fervent wooers to capture a pleasing Bianca, Kate's younger sister, right widely separated accessible for matrimony given Kate has been to a altar.

Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009

“Aweel, Tibb, a lass like me wasna to lack wooers, for I wasna sae ill-favoured that the tikes wad bark after me.”

The Monastery 2008

Just 17% think their benefits package is a "match made in heaven", with 40% of employees more likely to describe their bosses as hapless wooers than knowing how to "push their buttons" 9%.

Archive 2008-02-01 Thatsnews 2008

Leda, the daughter of Thestius, had three children, maidens, Phoebe, Clytaemnestra my wife, and Helen; this last it was who had for wooers the foremost of the favoured sons of Hellas; but terrible threats of spilling his rival's blood were uttered by each of them, should he fail to win the maid.

Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

Leda, the daughter of Thestius, had three children, maidens, Phoebe, Clytaemnestra my wife, and Helen; this last it was who had for wooers the foremost of the favoured sons of Hellas; but terrible threats of spilling his rival's blood were uttered by each of them, should he fail to win the maid.

Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

So long as we are wooers, may kiss and coll at our pleasure, nothing is so sweet, we are in heaven as we think; but when we are once tied, and have lost our liberty, marriage is an hell, give me my yellow hose again: a mouse in a trap lives as merrily, we are in a purgatory some of us, if not hell itself.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007