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    1. intention was never to woo her


    2. Just basic animal instincts dressed up to woo


    3. She used her natural beauty to woo the


    4. “I love to woo you princess


    5. won’t have to woo new investors and it also is not a good sign if your original


    6. They attempt to woo the girl into a elationship by sending flowers, stuffed animals, candy and love letters in an attempt to prove their love


    7. next he was trying to woo her again


    8. Woodruffe tried hard to woo her but the maid would not say yes


    9. with the [woman] in the mirror, woo hoo


    10. "Woo! That was cool," said Peter

    11. How could you woo me and then boo me?


    12. Mars in your sign could also show that your partner, aware of the challenges in the marriage, is working hard to woo you back


    13. a following of men whom he did woo,


    14. Yet this enjoys before it woo,


    15. In front of the Dae Woo Exhibition Center


    16. woo the sea but oh well that"s


    17. woo the sea but oh well that’s


    18. that their adoring children shall seek to woo!


    19. With the right amount of concessions, he could woo a few Blue Dogs over to his side and get some good legislation passed


    20. woo the throng of Wrinkle ridden panty chuckers

    21. If he couldn’t woo the bitches with his cock, he may as well


    22. The baseball team cheers as they wave their arms and fists in the air and shout, “Woo woo


    23. “Soon the pistons will be humming steam will have a second coming, woo, woo woo! See the light,


    24. ” Junior and Zaviar throw their fists in the air and shout, “Woo woo, woo woo!” Gwendolyn looks at Junior and Zaviar as she nods her head


    25. the thought of trying to woo her with the childish crap they


    26. But it wasn’t just the Jats or upper castes alone—the Sangh Parivar made a deliberate attempt to woo Dalits as well, in an effort to cement an umbrella ‘Hindu’ identity


    27. That a discredited cleric was being used to woo the minorities only reflected the bankruptcy of the Congress’s tattered secular vision


    28. We were sometimes involved jointly in efforts to woo customers and this gave us


    29. Carried away by the euphoria of her coquetry, man begins to woo woman with hope


    30. She said that’s not what her husband would’ve bargained for when he sent her to seek my help, and I told her that I couldn’t help as her charms corrupted my soul; when she retorted that she was not obliged to cater to my craving for her, I asked her, what if I helped her out only to woo her later? Won’t her sense of gratitude tend her emotionally towards me? As she would be my P

    31. Guess what I found there? You got it! My iPod! Woo hoo!


    32. An electric razor can't take the slices of woo off


    33. It’s the loss of industry that got us into this financial state to start with, but in all of his efforts to woo companies into coming here, he pays almost no attention to improving the quality of life in the community


    34. They did not see the destruction that they woo by their action


    35. He tried to pretend otherwise when attempting to woo me to hire Helios, but I recognize a cretin when I see one


    36. “ Did you know that Mars employed this very scent to woo and win the love of his life, Venus? ” He helped me step into the peace and tranquility of the fragrant water and removed his golden helmet, using it as a dipper to drench my body


    37. It was easy for golf, this guy, to woo


    38. Dun dun woo woo, dun dun woo woo


    39. These last few weeks had been hard on Bob here he was trying his very best to please and woo back his wife, and there she was chasing round after another man and getting herself arrested for murder


    40. This is the commonway to woo in southern Spain

    41. her feelings, she started trying to woo Aanya


    42. To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo


    43. When I heard they divorced I was already married and I often thought that if I were not, I would have immigrated to Canada to woo her


    44. He wrote his song of praise of the meanest most miserable human filth ever to live in England, in a poetic prose: designed to woo the hearts and minds of every western soul who could read his words


    45. her and shout Woo! In her ear as she


    46. just by looking at her and Mungo MacDonut could woo a woman without moving his lips


    47. it wasn’t that easy to woo conservative Tamilians, after all


    48. Theirs is not so much to minister to the expression of the sublime as to woo us to the beauteous joys of the senses


    49. independence, and of so little or rather no retirement, that she has given any occasion, or even the semblance of one, for disparagement of her purity and modesty; on the contrary, such and so great is the vigilance with which she watches over her honour, that of all those that court and woo her not one has boasted, or can with truth boast, that she has given him any hope however small of obtaining his desire


    50. Why does he send to one who is a buonaroba, a bay where all men ride, a maid of honour with a scandalous girlhood, a lordling to woo for him? He was himself a lord of language and had made himself a coistrel gentleman and he had written Romeo and Juliet

















    1. “The main reason I wooed you is what I owed Tdeshi


    2. government, the visiting crack whores, and his cunning charm that wooed the


    3. He must have infiltrated the business class and wooed Larocka into giving him a voice with Forge


    4. In his mind, Elisha would be wooed in his presence, like everyone else always was, and fall all over himself to heal Naaman


    5. Patric walked away silently as Samantha wooed the crowd into a frenzy


    6. He rang his wife and told her that the money was on its way then found a small bar close to the beach and wooed a lovely American lady into his bed


    7. That is where your father met and wooed her


    8. She wooed Darkness like a lover and his gift was life—life that, not being life as mortals know it, can never grow old and fade


    9. for it is toward a most glorious future that the superlative shall be wooed


    10. never been wooed like this before

    11. The RSS consciously wooed non-Jatav Dalit groups like the Pasis, even distributing pamphlets claiming that their ancestors were rakshaks (protectors) of the Hindu faith


    12. All the same, gullible that they are, how these silly women lose their heads when wooed by the moneyed


    13. And after all, what was this strange change in her and in Cyril? Was it not the mere effect of time and absence? Had not her heart grown cold and dead, so that it would never love again? — for Cyril's self was his only rival — he who had wooed and won her years before — of him she had no disloyal thought, from him her allegiance had never wandered


    14. He charmed his associates, wooed his clients, and won over his competition through decisive action and the force of will


    15. He was the perfect gentleman and he wooed me relentlessly


    16. After the English aristocrats shunned him: he wooed the French aristocrats and finally gained his ultimate social notoriety


    17. I was flattered that he’d sent the flowers, it had never happened before and I had always wanted to be wooed that way, but now that it had happened it felt more like a friend or family member had sent them


    18. He loved deeply, he was hated; he adored, he was scorned; he wooed a wild beast, he pleaded with marble, he pursued the wind, he cried to the wilderness, he served ingratitude, and for reward was made the prey of death in the mid-course of life, cut short by a shepherdess whom he sought to immortalise in the memory of man, as these papers which you see could fully prove, had he not commanded me to consign them to the fire after having consigned his body to the earth


    19. Oh, ye rural deities, whoever ye be that haunt this lone spot, give ear to the complaint of a wretched lover whom long absence and brooding jealousy have driven to bewail his fate among these wilds and complain of the hard heart of that fair and ungrateful one, the end and limit of all human beauty! Oh, ye wood nymphs and dryads, that dwell in the thickets of the forest, so may the nimble wanton satyrs by whom ye are vainly wooed never disturb your sweet repose, help me to lament my hard fate or at least weary not at listening to it! Oh, Dulcinea del Toboso, day of my night, glory of my pain, guide of my path, star of my fortune, so may Heaven grant thee in full all thou seekest of it, bethink thee of the place and condition to which absence from thee has brought me, and make that return in kindness that is due to my fidelity! Oh, lonely trees, that from this day forward shall bear me company in my solitude, give me some sign by the gentle movement of your boughs that my presence is not distasteful to you! Oh, thou, my squire, pleasant companion in my prosperous and adverse fortunes, fix well in thy memory what thou shalt see me do here, so that thou mayest relate and report it to the sole cause of all," and so saying he dismounted from Rocinante, and in an instant relieved him of saddle and bridle, and giving him a slap on the croup, said, "He gives thee freedom who is bereft of it himself, oh steed as excellent in deed as thou art


    20. "That is the truth," replied Anselmo, "and relying upon that I will tell thee, friend Lothario, that the desire which harasses me is that of knowing whether my wife Camilla is as good and as perfect as I think her to be; and I cannot satisfy myself of the truth on this point except by testing her in such a way that the trial may prove the purity of her virtue as the fire proves that of gold; because I am persuaded, my friend, that a woman is virtuous only in proportion as she is or is not tempted; and that she alone is strong who does not yield to the promises, gifts, tears, and importunities of earnest lovers; for what thanks does a woman deserve for being good if no one urges her to be bad, and what wonder is it that she is reserved and circumspect to whom no opportunity is given of going wrong and who knows she has a husband that will take her life the first time he detects her in an impropriety? I do not therefore hold her who is virtuous through fear or want of opportunity in the same estimation as her who comes out of temptation and trial with a crown of victory; and so, for these reasons and many others that I could give thee to justify and support the opinion I hold, I am desirous that my wife Camilla should pass this crisis, and be refined and tested by the fire of finding herself wooed and by one worthy to set his affections upon her; and if she comes out, as I know she will, victorious from this struggle, I shall look upon my good fortune as unequalled, I shall be able to say that the cup of my desire is full, and that the virtuous woman of whom the sage says 'Who shall find her?' has fallen to my lot

    21. Here the lay of the heart-stricken Altisidora came to an end, while the warmly wooed Don Quixote began to feel alarm; and with a deep sigh he said to himself, "O that I should be such an unlucky knight that no damsel can set eyes on me but falls in love with me! O that the peerless Dulcinea should be so unfortunate that they cannot let her enjoy my incomparable constancy in peace! What would ye with her, ye queens? Why do ye persecute her, ye empresses? Why ye pursue her, ye virgins of from fourteen to fifteen? Leave the unhappy being to triumph, rejoice and glory in the lot love has been pleased to bestow upon her in surrendering my heart and yielding up my soul to her


    22. Stephen, his blood wooed by grace of language and gesture, blushed


    23. June that was too I wooed


    24. Attorney who had wooed him these last weeks had disappeared, leaving him alone with this balding, nearly eye-browless juris doctor who spoke in a murmur, as if his every utterance weren’t already confidential


    25. Is it due to excess of poetry or of stupidity that we are never weary of describing what King James called a woman's "makdom and her fairnesse," never weary of listening to the twanging of the old Troubadour strings, and are comparatively uninterested in that other kind of "makdom and fairnesse" which must be wooed with industrious


    26. (Aren't they all?) When our bank wooed a smaller bank, its owner demanded a stock swap on a basis that valued the acquiree's net worth and earning power at over twice that of the acquirer's


    27. I repeated to Alec, “How much was true? How many girls have you wooed into your cause?”


    28. They wooed her away from one another


    29. Half his destiny would then be determined, but the other half might not be so very smoothly wooed


    30. I only know that my first forenoon’s search for a habitation was rendered uncommonly difficult because I could not assure six gimleteyed landladies in rusty black that I was “wooed an’ married an’ all

    31. But, even as he plotted, he wooed her with his politest phrases; laughed, but not too loudly, at the little sparkles of wit, accepted with naïve delight her comments on the skill in driving that a boy of his age could show


    1. 'Yes, wooing me, hard,' I said as I locked the cashbox


    2. the Lord wooing his devotee rather than the other way round


    3. wooing in a much easier way than it is for those who


    4. The wooing and the poetry


    5. A potter mentioned a hunter who was wooing his sister, a man by the name of Bo-elon, who spent most of his time in the mountains to the west, hunting the puma


    6. When it came to wooing her he was the typical male, relentless until he got what he wanted, and then he became aloof, showing her that he loved her from time to time, but not as much as she would like


    7. Gadkari was assigned the task of wooing Raj


    8. As he shuddered to imagine her fall, he resolved, ‘It is better that we moved in here before I begin wooing her


    9. ‘Didn’t Roopa lose her head like it happened with me in the bus? Can she keep her cool when someone comes wooing her the next time? After all, Raja could be proved right


    10. ‘What an amazing development though! But how on earth did Sathyam land up with such a dame! Maybe, owing to my destiny to have her, who knows? Whatever, won’t his friendship prove to be a thoroughfare to her favors? Just the same, won’t she need some wooing as well? I might as well dazzle Roopa straight away by flaunting my credentials right away

    11. ‘Where would all that lead me to? Isn’t she coy to my advances without herself giving anything away? Oh, how my wooing is warming her like a glove


    12. ‘Oh me, it’s six months since I’ve been wooing her, and isn’t that a record of failure for me? All the same, being coy to my attentions, she makes it appear as if it’s only time, before she grants it to me


    13. If only I were a man of status, he wouldn’t have dared even to daydream about you, leave alone wooing you


    14. They were blind to the destruction that they were wooing with their actions


    15. He was no good at wooing women


    16. When youth with its fresh face came wooing


    17. Nevertheless he continues his wooing in spite of thefact that Teodora has become


    18. He, well aware that he had got to a highly critical moment in his wooing, felt that nothing but a brain-wave now would save him


    19. been a better person, I would not have confused her by wooing her


    20. called Fritzing, softly as a dove wooing its mate

    21. “I’ve been wooing one of my father’s old trainers, he’s a master of exercise; showed me how to lift my body off the ground one-handed


    22. scouting trip would be, in its way, the wooing as well


    23. Instead of opposing your will, they try to constantly put pressure so your good impulse and direction is poisoned and deflected away from what you originally wanted to do, by putting tantalizing corruptions in your path, by wooing you away from good with the attractions of evil


    24. wooing the locals with their new false messiah act, the end-result was revolution and chaos


    25. ’Well educated’ was high up on my mother's list of priorities when it came to men that were wooing her daughters


    26. The count stood like one changed to stone, and turning to the bewildered crowd, Ferdinand added, with a gay smile of triumph, "To you, my gallant friends, I can only wish that your wooing may prosper as mine has done, and that you may all win as fair a bride as I have by this masked marriage


    27. COURSE OF THE ENAMOURED ALTISIDORA'S WOOING


    28. His first wooing had been of the tempestuous order, and he looked back upon ;it as if through a long vista of years with a feeling of compassion blended with regret


    29. His second wooing, he resolved, should be as calm and simple as possible


    30. THE ENAMOURED ALTISIDORA'S WOOING

    31. Knowing how the bastard worked, wooing Claire had probably been part of a long game that started before they even met


    32. Five years later, Paul was wooing Claire at Auburn


    33. not very good at what Gregory called wooing


    34. When their guard became absorbed in wooing a pretty girl, the POWs sprinted from their stations, snatched up the tools, dashed over to a section of track, wrenched the pins and bolts out, and rushed back to their work


    35. He remembered his wooing between two campaigns, a single short week in the season of gathering olives


    36. Will paused, imagining that it would be impossible for Dorothea to misunderstand this; indeed he felt that he was contradicting himself and offending against his self-approval in speaking to her so plainly; but still—it could not be fairly called wooing a woman to tell her that he would never woo her


    37. It must be admitted to be a ghostly kind of wooing


    38. It turned out he couldn’t sustain his side either: the witty banter, the clever games, the romance, and the wooing


    39. On the contrary: she would have liked to discover who the author of the anonymous letter was in order to convince him of his error with all the pertinent explanations, for she felt certain that never, for any reason, would she respond to the wooing of Juvenal Urbino


    40. "An hour," said Ahab, standing rooted in his boat's stern; and he gazed beyond the whale's place, towards the dim blue spaces and wide wooing vacancies to leeward

    41. Roy's wooing had certainly been as romantic as girlish heart could desire, but—she wished Aunt Jamesina and the girls would not take things so for granted


    42. He was dumb to love and wooing


    43. Trusotsky brings with him, in his wooing of Miss Zachlebnikoff, a name and circumstances fully well-known to that esteemed family; in the second place, he brings a fairly respectable position in the world; and thirdly, he brings wealth


    44. Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles


    45. A surprise! My farm hand Rasmus tells me that Morten Bruus came a- wooing to the rectory at Veilbye some years back, but was sent away with a refusal


    46. Moreover, underlying all of the determined deference of his bearing to her, there was that which brought an undefined thrill of fear, that touch of primitive mastery in his wooing with which a man of strong virility may yet transfuse his personality through the pallid conventions of the centuries


    47. It nonplused her to realize in what a different spirit she was accepting that wooing


    48. His wooing was prompt and picturesque


    49. Her wooing had consisted of a timid kiss or two, a decorous marriage into whose ceremony the word “love” had slipped unobserved, close to “honor” and “obey


    1. biting him as he woos,


    2. 4 The feeling of ambivalence is paramount as the husband woos her again after repeated attacks


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    Synonyms for "woo"

    court romance solicit woo address cultivate allure entice entreat blandish supplicate charm date pursue

    "woo" definitions

    seek someone's favor


    make amorous advances towards