26 adjectives to describe wooings

Such a tempestuous wooing!

A Southern girl with the word love on a young man's lips would have become a Circe of seductive wooing until the tale were told, even though she could not give her heart in return.

The fiery wooing of Mordred.

"Not for ourselves is the suit, and 'tis delicate wooing for others.

Her social education had advanced considerably since that summer day in the pine-wood, when John Hammond had wooed her with passionate wooing.

Below, it seems like the constant wooing of the sea that wins the offering from this wealth of purity, instead of the voluntary act of this giant of the Arctic zone.

Was she strong enough to walk this hedged-up path alone?single-hearted enough to go on holding out against her mother's urgings, against Ormsby's masterful wooing, against her own unconquerable longing for a sure anchorage in some safe haven of manful care and supervision; all this that she might continue to preserve her independence and live the life which, despite its drawbacks, was yet her own?

The reverent wooing of Archibald.

After a little wooing, she began to cling to him, and return his kisses.

From 'A Study of Death,' copyright 1895, by Harper and Brothers A DEDICATION TO MY BELOVED WIFE My earliest written expression of intimate thought or cherished fancy was for your eyes only; it was my first approach to your maidenly heart, a mystical wooing, which neglected no resource, near or remote, for the enhancement of its charm, and so involved all other mystery in its own.

Likewise she induced mental states which she fondly believed to approximate those of the stone-folk, and just now, as she put up her hair for the pillow, she was indulging her fancy with a palaeolithic wooing.

But Kimberley had no consolation, and knew only that he was expected somehow to be happy, and was, in spite of his prosperous wooing, more miserable than he had ever been before.

With rusty finery and rusty wooing, the bachelor colonists strove for the fair hands that were all too few, and there was many a rejected swain that day.

The speedy wooing accomplished as well as the recruiting job which was dispatched equally expeditiously and thoroughly Geoffrey prepared to return to France to get in some more good work against the Huns while his wife planned to enter Red Cross service as a nurse for which she had been in training for some time.

There was a romance in such love as this that had not existed in Mr. Fenton's straightforward wooing; and Marian was too young to be quite proof against the subtle charm of a secret, romantic, despairing passion.

And, he owned to himself, Jack was unconscious of any hurt for his friend in this rather transparent wooing.

" It was an unimpassioned wooing; but any other would have repelled Katie's sense of loyalty and truth.

For the next fifteen years she resisted Liszt's ardent wooing to marriage.

We feel charmed to see such exquisite imaginations conjured out of the little old familiar anecdote of John Alden's vicarious wooing.

It came; the door opened, and she was in his arms,in those strong arms that could protect her from insult and tyranny and cruel wooing; out in the night, on the road, in Rome, married, free, and made blessed for ever.

Coquette as you will in other latitudes, with flowery banks and youthful piers in the busy marts of trade, and undermine them, one and all, with your deceitful wooings, but bow in reverence as you gaze on us.

Keith's patient, embarrassed, masterful wooing as if I had been shamefully eavesdropping.

Therefore, her girlish wooing was but the outcry of nature and was without boldness.

And never surely was there such a grotesque wooing.

I.Lost and Found It was the time that the earth begins to put on her new apparel against the approach of her lover, when the shepherd, Strephon, on the sands which lie against the island of Cithera, called upon him his friendly rival, Claius, and bewailed their hopeless wooing of the fair shepherdess, Urania, whose beauty taught the beholders chastity.

26 adjectives to describe  wooings