wooer's

They are fearful of rejection, fearful above all that the object of their desire will unman them by turning to some other male, thereby displaying a scorn for the wooer's very virility.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

None but the girl's mother was stiff against the wooer's suit; and she privately spoke to her daughter in order to search her mind.

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

All the wooers of only daughters, he reminded himself, as well as all the sweethearts of only sons, were unworthy in the eyes of parents, and probably Mungo's unprejudiced attitude towards the conspiring lovers was quite justified by the wooer's real character in spite of the ill repute of his history.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

"That visit did my business for life," said Bertie, with a wooer's usual disregard of veracity.

Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

The smiles at once broke loose and revelled over her wooer's face.

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 1908

It was addressed to some invisible hearer of the tender sex, and wheresoever she might be hidden -- whether in great branch or low thicket or hedge -- there was hinted no doubt in her small wooer's note that she would hear it and in due time respond.

The Shuttle 1907

That is so far from being the case that it constantly happens that the premature exhibition of so large a demand at once and for ever damns all the wooer's chances.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

The caressing under cover of the tablecloth was an answer to a wooer's passionate letter.

Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897

A couple of minutes later Bessie heard the sound of a horse galloping, and looking up she saw her wooer's powerful form vanishing down the vista of blue gums.

Jess Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Gerlind, her wooer's mother; her rescue by her lover Herwig after many years, and the slaughter of her tyrants, especially Gerlind, which

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889