wooer

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The Quality of Fancy Light and Airy, She Will Not Yield to the Laborious Wooer In literature, as in life, the quality of fancy is rare—as rare as radium.

From Time Magazine Archive

There he sleeps, whose heart was twined With wild stream and wandering burn, Wooer of the western wind, Watcher of the April morn.

From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Lang, Andrew

The Dainty Adorer now came form with the Noble Nonentity on his right and the Winsome Wooer on his left.

From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George

"Is it meant that the Dainty Adorer or the Winsome Wooer could do this?" asked Tom Seddon.

From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George

We have heard of Weissenfels before; the same poor Weissenfels who was Wilhelmina's Wooer in old time, now on the verge of sixty; an extremely polite but weakish old gentleman; accidentally preserved in History.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas