wooes

Nay, she is so forward a girl, that she wooes him: but I hope it never will be a match.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Though extremely rugged, with its main features on the grandest scale in height and depth, it is nevertheless easy of access and hospitable; and its marvelous beauty, displayed in striking and alluring forms, wooes the admiring wanderer on and on, higher and higher, charmed and enchanted.

The Yosemite National Park 1969

The rich Svend wooes Lisbet, who favours William for his good qualities.

Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series Frank Sidgwick

King of Reynes; wooes Rymenhild, 303; slain by Horn, 308; land of, committed to care of Sir Athelbrus, 313

Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race

The window commands a view of the sheet of water which stretches before the Abbey, with its wooded banks, -- a scene which he loves and remembers even when "Lake Leman wooes him with her crystal face," for he writes to his sister, --

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

Music wooes, and leads the human race ever onward, and there are two columns that follow her.

Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor

Son of famous Viking, Howard the Halt, 97; finds Thorbiorn's lost sheep, 98-100; kills a wizard, 101; second fight with the wizard's ghost, 102; wooes Sigrid, 99, 103; meets Thorbiorn, 103-106; his death, 106;

Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race

Later the husband will come home and greet her, and he wooes her to him as tenderly as he would gather a flower that he would wear.

The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley

Irish hero, 156; often called "the Irish Achilles," 184; nephew of King Conor and son of Dechtire, 185; god Lugh, reputed father of, 185; champion in Ulster and all Ireland, 185; bride sought for, 186; wooes and weds Emer, daughter of Forgall the Wily, 186;

Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race

Or the travelling peddler or tinker, who, as he sits by the way-side, patiently wooes the sun with a

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings