wooer

1 The female, if attracted by her wooer, becomes friendly with him and the two "bill" each other very much as if they were exchanging kisses.

2 Furious at his dismissal, he was still eager to be considered a successful wooer of the famous actress.

3 If a wooer came she gave him some riddle to guess, and if he could not guess it, he was sent contemptuously away.

每当有人求婚时，她总要出个谜语让他猜，如果猜不中，她就会轻蔑地把他赶走。

4 Suit′or, one who sues in love or law: a petitioner: a wooer:—fem.

5 By Dana Hull and Anders Melin Tesla Inc. is looking to woo its unusually large base of retail investors to get approval for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package.

6 Ben Higgins' wooers had to chase baby turtles and adult wild pigs around a beach last season, and JoJo recently made out with someone on top of a horse's neck.

7 In 1648 edition, st. iii. line 2 reads 'showes;' stanza v. line 2, 'cabinets;' stanza viii. line 5, 'and meet;' stanza ix. 'paramours' = lovers, wooers, not as now signifying loose love.

8 But fate was determined that one so beautiful and so worthy as yourself should not be won until the wooer appeared in some degree worthy of the lady whose hand was desired.

9 The coplas of the wooer below the balcony are usually sentimental.

10 But there came another wooer, who was rich as I was poor, And her parents looked with favor on this keeper of a store.

11 In response came many wooers to attempt the impossible task.

12 A faithful and versatile legate was this proxy wooer, but it was all to no purpose.

13 Perhaps, too, a royal child would be safer among the warriors of Jomburg than at the court of a stepmother who had employed such drastic means to get rid of undesirable wooers.

14 He did not simulate any passion, and again in her heart comparing him with that other wooer in the Row, she thanked him for his honesty.

15 The stranger, though at first somewhat puzzled by Woof's violent efforts to wag a non-existent tail, apparently found her big wooer sympathetic.

16 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.

17 People will say that it is my blame that no wooer comes to seek thee.

18 That would be the way of the wooer mistress's money.

如果这样的话,那就是一心贪图钱财和未婚者的恶劣行径了.

19 And all the while his imagination was urging him to that unknown next step, and when he was alone and in the dark he became even an enterprising wooer.

20 Since they were rich as well as beautiful you may be sure they had many wooers, but all preferred to reign alone.

1 求爱者

spark swain

2 求婚者

suitor courtier lover admirer