Which preposition to use with woos

in Occurrences 10%

Towards the close of this gay repast, and when the party were about to yield their places to the attendants, who were ready to re-ship the utensils, John Effingham observed "I trust, Mrs. Hawker, you have been-duly warned of the catastrophe- character of this point, on which woman is said never to have been wooed in vain.

with Occurrences 8%

Even these you may woo with a little care into uncurbed fraternal abandon.

for Occurrences 5%

They woo for him, but entreat my son Gloster may die for this, that he hath done. LEI.

of Occurrences 4%

" [Footnote 1: Chang K'een, a minister of the emperor Woo of Han (B.C. 140-87), is celebrated as the first Chinese who "pierced the void," and penetrated to "the regions of the west," corresponding very much to the present Turkestan.

by Occurrences 3%

Why, is it not good to woo by candle-light? PHIL.

to Occurrences 3%

The time hath been when a daughter of Venice, not more fair, was wooed to the bed of a sovereign.

like Occurrences 2%

But like seeks like, and perhaps it was not wholly the fault of our astonishing diplomacy in Constantinople that Turkey, wooed like some desirable maiden, cast in her lot with the Power that by instinct and tradition most resembled her.

on Occurrences 2%

And she, whom so many had wooed on bended knee, spake him' Yea'for that a woman's ways be beyond all knowledgeand therewith gave her beauty to his keeping.

beneath Occurrences 1%

"I should like to know if it be really true that no woman was ever unsuccessfully wooed beneath these oaks?

from Occurrences 1%

Her face that night at the dancethat night in the boat, when they had talked almost not at all, had seemed to feel no need for talkingthings remembered blended with things desired until it seemed he could feel her hair brush his face, feel her breath upon his cheek, her arms about his neckvivid as if given by memories instead of wooed from dreams.

under Occurrences 1%

And if the woman he won for his wife in these latter days was not quite the fresh young beauty he had wooed under the walnut-trees in Captain Sedgewick's garden, she was still infinitely more beautiful than all other women in his eyes; she was still the dearest and best and brightest and purest of all earthly creatures for him.

at Occurrences 1%

Even a professional improver of land finds sleep difficult to woo at the beginning of such an enterprise.

Which preposition to use with  woos