suitorship

Ambition began to vie with the love of pleasure, when a hasty marriage closed a promising career, and left him bound in shallows and in miseries, to spend years in the suitorship of the great, and to find at last, not altogether willingly, a haven in the Anglican priesthood, and reveal himself as the first great orator that Church produced.

Introduction. Grierson, Herbert J.C Herbert J.C. Grierson 1921

They revolted deliberately and in set form against the old system of suitorship and protection.

Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905

And the sense of occult rivalry in suitorship was so much superadded to the palpable rivalry of their business lives.

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

And the sense of occult rivalry in suitorship was so much superadded to the palpable rivalry of their business lives.

The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884

They revolted deliberately and in set form against the old system of suitorship and protection.

Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) John Morley 1880

The proverb, "Fear old age, for it does not come alone," was especially applicable to Columbus, while suffering sickness without the elasticity to bear it, poverty with high station and debt, and all the delay of suitorship, not at the beginning, but at the close, of a career.

The Life of Columbus Arthur Helps 1844