Courtship Sentence Examples

This courtship has been going on too long and you're getting bored.

There was nothing in Pierre's soul now at all like what had troubled it during his courtship of Helene.

Sir Francis Walsingham was born at Chislehurst, where his family had long flourished; Hever Castle was the seat of the Boleyns and the scene of the courtship of Anne Boleyn by Henry VIII.

Wasn't there supposed to be something between "nice to meet you" and "I love you" - like six months of courtship?

The star-crossed lovers play out their tragic courtship in the setting of a private fee paying school.

You might even want to enjoy some rather old-fashioned, simple courtship.

He then met my Grandmother with whom, after a brief courtship he set up house.

Goldsinny Other wrasse have a ritual courtship in which the male prepares a nest.

Celebrity couples can't escape the media's entitlement of the juicy gossip surrounding their courtship and marriage.

It denotes a promise to be faithful to the other person and that the courtship is serious.

During courtship, each member of a couple is focused on the other.

High school sweethearts who married and then split up relive their courtship years, and sometimes reveal affairs.

Einhard married Emma, or Imma, a sister of Bernharius, bishop of Worms, and a tradition of the 12th century represented this lady as a daughter of Charlemagne, and invented a romantic story with regard to the courtship which deserves to be noticed as it frequently appears in literature.

Kepler's second courtship forms the subject of a highly characteristic letter addressed by him to Baron Stralendorf, in which he reviews the qualifications of eleven candidates for his hand, and explains the reasons which decided his choice in favour of a portionless orphan girl named Susanna Reutlinger.

The process of inauguration was commenced in the evening by the placing of the candidate under the care of two "esquires of honour grave and well seen in courtship and nurture and also in the feats of chivalry," who were to be " governors in all things relating to him."

It was composed during James's captivity in England and celebrates his courtship of Lady Jane Beaufort.

In the typical newts (Molge) of Europe, the males are adorned during the breeding season with bright colours and crests or other ornamental dermal appendages, and, resorting to the water, they engage in a lengthy courtship accompanied by lively evolutions around the females, near which they deposit their spermatozoa in bundles on a gelatinous mass, the spermatophore, probably secreted by the cloacal gland.

There was nothing suggestive about his demeanor, and the trust he had cultivated during their courtship was now paying off.

And so began a protracted courtship which dragged on for weeks, fraying the nerves of all connected with the club.

So far, I've found the courtship of Nicholas and Alix was a bit strange!

It took him slightly longer to marry his beloved Lois, a whirlwind courtship of three weeks.

I don't think I'd ever enter into a life long courtship with someone who didn't have a lot to teach me.

The three laboratories had previously discovered that fruitless is the master gene controlling the male fruit fly 's elaborate six-step courtship ritual.

Apart from courtship rituals the impact on us humans at this time is not too great.

The spawning tubercles play an important role in the courtship of the goldfish.

The only one of them perhaps which requires notice is Religious Courtship (1722), a curious series of dialogues displaying Defoe's unaffected religiosity, and at the same time the rather meddling intrusiveness with which he applied his religious notions.

Mrs Veal has been to some extent popularized by the work which it helped to sell; Religious Courtship and The Family Instructor had a vogue among the middle class until well into the 19th century, and The History of the Union was republished in 1786.

As people look back on the most memorable parts of the courtship and early years of marriage, invariably the small things begin to stand out.

Recently, Bass was seen at a party and the VH1 Big in '06 awards without Lehmkuhl, causing many to speculate that their courtship was over.

Her relationship with Armstrong received the most scrutiny in the press because their split after a two and a half year courtship was completely unexpected.

Their courtship began a little more than three years later and they were married after 18 months of dating.

After a whirlwind courtship, actor Renee Zellweger married country music star Kenny Chesney on May 9, 2005, in a romantic beach wedding.

The dance is a playful courtship dance (as are many of the native dances) portraying the capture of a bird in a cage.

The dance movements are similar to many other cultural dances portraying courtship, with couples traveling in line of dance while they form various postures and smaller figures as a couple.

This genre includes elements of Spanish dances such as Flamenco and Bolero, as well as the courtship dances from the Renaissance.

Many fans of the dance form have their favorites, such as the courtship ritual popularly known as the "Mexican Hat Dance."

The Mexican Hat Dance includes a story of love and courtship that calls for it to be danced by adult couples in its traditional form.

Mexican dances focus on the joyful celebrations of life and are usually about love, courtship, and light-hearted topics.

The romantic tale of their courtship is Roman in origin and the early Greeks did not mention Psyche.

After Brad's infamous break-up with Aniston and his scandalous courtship with Angelina Jolie, his look went drastic when he opted for a low-fuss buzzed cut.

After a long courtship, Gwen and Gavin married in September 2002.

Born in 1961, Princess Diana gained worldwide fame during her courtship, engagement and subsequent marriage to His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales.

Others, on the other hand, hearken back to formal arcane rules of courtship.

The idea of courtship in relationships goes back hundreds of years.

Jane Austen refers to courtship as the time after the engagement has been announced and approved, but before the wedding takes place.

Between the two of you, however, you may not want the sort of affectionate behavior that characterized courtship to be a thing of the past.

To keep the feeling of courtship in relationships alive, remember what made that time so special to begin with.

Remember the times you set aside to focus on each other during courtship, and try to do the same further down the line.

The couples who have been together for years and still maintain a feel of courtship in relationships are the ones who really listen to each other.

During the first month or so of our courtship, he was attentive, he called once a day just to say hi and he took me on some beautiful dates.

Your characters have to try to find and go on successful dates as part of the courtship process.

The art of love has been practiced since time immemorial, and along with it, debates as to proper courtship and breakups have surely taken place.

Regardless of how it started, this type of kissing is an established part of courtship and romantic rituals for centuries.

In those situations, courtship was not much of an issue, but more a formality.

As more immigrants arrived in America from various countries, the settlers began to pick and choose from their traditional courtship customs.

As many as one in three courtship relationships were sexually active to the point of the bride being pregnant as she walked down the aisle.

Over the yearsmodern courtship rituals moved steadily from strict parental and societal chaperonage towards more and more privacy for the man and woman as they decide if they will make a compatible pair.

The fact that courtship changed became more of a societally sanctioned method of pre-marital relations did not escape the religious moralists of any age.

Conservative groups such as the Independent Women's Forum and the Free Republic have called for a return to courtship rituals and more formalized and supervised relationships between men and women.

Regardless of the moral debate, studies show that the biggest change in courtship defined as "relations prior to marriage" is that it takes longer now than in the past.

A University of Texas study showed that even without all the traditions and barriers of historical courtship, couples take an average of eighteen months to decide to tie the knot.

Looking at the many ways people choose to participate in the "barnyard dance" of courtship has fascinated sociologists for centuries.

Love poems are a way to honor the courtship or spice up the anticipation for the wedding night.

The boyfriend or girlfriend exchanged poems during the courtship.

Kris and Kim are a couple who may have fallen in love at first sight, if their courtship is any indication.

You can understand why Virgo takes it slowly during the initial courtship.

Taurus enjoys all aspects of courtship, and she prefers things to move along at a traditional pace.

No Susan Lucci bio would be complete without mentioning her long courtship with the Daytime Emmy Awards.

Their totally unorthodox relationship included Tad's courtship of the country girl who was being used by the very wealthy Adam Chandler.

In the third season of True Blood, Eric is courted by the King of Mississippi, a courtship that Eric allows to gain access to the King and what is close to him in order to gain vengeance for the death of his family centuries before.

Eric's courtship of Sookie is unique, because he is not above manipulating Sookie to serve his own needs including having her consume some of his blood when she sucks a bullet from his wound.

If you're looking for ways to say I like you in French, you may want to know a lot more French flirting conversational phrases as well as more details on romance and courtship in Francophone countries.

Both families were heavily involved in the courtship of the pair, especially the fathers who planned family visits.

Viewers also found out that Tommy spent most of his courtship with Dina cheating on her before deciding he was ready to get married.

Meri met her at a party and encouraged Kody to consider her as a wife, but their courtship sparked tension.

The family also insists that the children eschew dating in favor of a "courtship" method of finding a mate.

Courtship is essentially chaperoned dating, though the couple usually becomes engaged, with the permission of the girl's father, before they begin spending significant time together.

After a few months of courtship, Josh proposed to Anna on her 20th birthday.

If they had to work at love during courtship, what would marriage be like - when he no longer needed to pretend affection?

Geese have a curious courtship, which seems to take an age.

Mary Wright married Isaac Sewell on 15 th June 1819 at Lamas, Norfolk after a five year courtship.

She imagined that this was the beginning of a courtship, and began to build daydreams about becoming his principal wife, but he took no further notice of her and passed on.

He vibrates his wings to create a courtship ' song ' and chases the female, who is coy and runs away.

It has been suggested that the diminutive size of the male is of great advantage to him during courtship, because he is enabled to move easily thereby to escape from her clutches should she turn upon him with hostile intent.

For an account of the courtship and dancing of spiders, of their webs and floating lines, the reader is referred to the works of M'Cook (30) and the Peckhams (31), whilst an excellent account of the nests of trap-door spiders is given by Moggridge (32).

This amazed Nicholas and even made him regard Bolkonski's courtship skeptically.

More recently he expressed his dissatisfaction with the hypothesis of "sexual selection" by which Darwin sought to explain the conspicuous characters which are displayed during the courtship of animals.

In 1858 appeared The Courtship of Miles Standish, based on a charming incident in the early history of the Plymouth colony, and, along with it, a number of minor poems, included under the modest title, Birds of Passage.

His mode of treatment is subjective and lyric. No matter what form his works assume, whether the epic, as in Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish and Hiawatha, the dramatic, as in The Spanish Student, The Golden Legend and The Mask of Pandora, or the didactic, as in The Psalm of Life and many of the minor poems; they are all subjective.

Woodstock was the scene of Henry II.'s courtship of Rosamund Clifford ("Fair Rosamund").

As soon as the male birds have begun their graceful antics, he shoots them, one after the other, with blunt arrows, for the purpose of stunning and bringing them to the ground without drawing blood, which would injure their plumage; and so eager are those birds in their courtship that almost all the males are thus brought down before the danger is perceived.

But it shows that the enthusiasm which in his days of courtship moved him to verse had blossomed into a later age of domestic bliss.

The best of his poems is the idyl of Regnault and Jeanneton, representing his own courtship of Jeanne de Laval.

Most curious of all is the courtship of the males of some species of Salticidae, or jumping spiders, which are decorated with plumes or coloured stripes or iridescent patches.

This contains the Complete Tradesman, Religious Courtship, The Consolidator and other works not comprised in Hazlitt's.