About the prospective suitorsI found that "prospective suitor" in a story a week ago, and I just love it.

Instead of being offended, Ninon took this mark of unreasonable spite good naturedly, and replied by another quatrain based upon the same rhyme as that of the disappointed suitor: "Insensible à tes feux, insensible à tes larmes,

This woman, who was twenty years older than himself, and to whose daughter he had been an unsuccessful suitor, brought him eight hundred pounds; but, according to Garrick's report of her, was neither amiable nor handsome, though that she was both in Johnson's estimation appears from the epithets "formosae, cultae, ingeniosae," which he inscribed on her tombstone.

Henry Percy, the sixth Earl of Northumberland, loved Ann Boleyn, and was her accepted suitor before King Henry VIII.

He whose little barque is the first to approach the girl will be her future husband; but, on the other hand, should an unwelcome suitor seem likely to be the first, she blows against it, and so, by impeding its progress, allows the favoured barque to win.

If anything better had appeared in the prospect of her lifeif any worthier suitor had come forward, she would have whistled Mr. Smithson down the wind; but no worthier suitor had offered himself.

She was much importuned by the rival suitors.

Either for the police, the landlord or an ardent suitor.

Not a sudden proposal from one of my numerous suitors could have startled me more.

In earnest, I must be an earnest suitor To you for love; yet you must be my tutor.

Who, though her lord had been ten years absent from her, and various accounts had been given of his death, yet, notwithstanding this, and the addresses of many royal suitors, she preserved her heart for her Ulysses, who at last triumphed over his enemies, and rescued his faithful queen from the persecution of her wooers.

But let me owe to your own generosity, my dearest creature, said I, rather than to the mediation of any person on earth, the forgiveness I am an humble suitor for.

She was fourteen years old, and eligible as the bride of any acceptable suitor.

But Opoponax, whose mind Soared above her native tutors, Imperturbably declined All these brave and dusky suitors.

There can be no doubt, however, that he was an impetuous suitor, ready to continue an acquaintance into a more serious bond on the slenderest ground, and without the slightest regard to the consequences on either side."

Finally, he is an importunate suitor, a corrupt client, a violent undertaker, a smooth factor, but untrusty, a restless master of his own, a bladder puffed up with the wind of hope and self-love.

The necessity of being courted makes our sex rather too much disposed to admire improper suitors.

In her eyes Captain Scarborough was a very handsome, very powerful, and very grand personage; but she feared that Florence was being induced to refuse her allegiance to this sovereign by the interference of her other very indifferent suitor.

She has a middle-aged suitor, Colonel Ford, whom she is very willing to marry; but at the end of the second act she refuses him, because she shrinks from the idea, on the one hand, of concealing the truth from him, on the other hand, of revealing her mother's trespass.

Yes, I doI'm exactly like a little cow thrown in with a little farm when they sell it, and all my little suitors think so, and they are very willing to take me on those terms, too.

Pray, sir, We women are bold suitors; by your looke It is no meane perplexity her folly Has cast upon your temper,pray, disclose it; And ift be anything the obedience She owes to me may countermand, she shall Repent her error.

More eager suitors wooing Latins.

2. The meretricious suitor.

Thereupon that evil-minded suitor laughed like a hyaena: and instantly my daughter fell into a swoon.

Money was, indeed, the only qualification she lacked, and Sham Babu's comparative poverty kept eligible suitors at a distance.