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wooed
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
