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HELEN S 'I thought King Henry had resembled thee, In courage, courtship, and proportion: But all his mind is bent to holiness, To number Ave-Maries on his beads: His champions are the prophets and apostles; His weapons, holy saws of sacred writ.
It may thus be inferred that the pairing habits of this Phalarope are most singular, the female conducting the courtship!
The Pintail is by no means a noisy bird; a low chattering may be heard from a flock whilst feeding, a soft quack when the bird is alarmed; whilst the drake, during the season of courtship, utters a deep clük, preceded by a hiss, and followed by a low grating note.
The usual note is a somewhat low kurr, but in the season of courtship the male utters a cooing sound when paying his addresses to his mate, as he swims 201 round and round her, guarding her from the attentions of rivals.
The note of this Duck is a most harsh and discordant scaup, but during flight or courtship a hoarse and grating kurr is uttered.
The birds swim side by side close inshore below the rocks, first one diving, and then another, rarely, if ever, both descending at the same time when feeding; but when engaged in courtship, the drake will pursue the duck, and splash about in the water in a most uproarious way, often diving after her in the eagerness of his chase.
Perhaps they desired by the use of this material to symbolize mourning for the loss of opportunities for making money; or for the days of[Pg 137] beauty and courtship, or for children dead and gone, or to mark the humility which becomes an inmate, or to do honor to the day which is still revered by many Englishwomen as a day of humiliation and rebuke, or in the belief that crape confers dignity.
What had he, Lord Jocelyn, to offer the lad, in comparison with the delights of this strange and charming courtship?
In the nature of single blessedness he would one day take unto himself a wife when Miss Right came on the scene but in the interim ladies' society was a conditio sine qua non though he had the gravest possible doubts, not that he wanted in the smallest to pump Stephen about Miss Ferguson (who was very possibly the particular lodestar who brought him down to Irishtown so early in the morning), as to whether he would find much satisfaction basking in the boy and girl courtship idea and the company of smirking misses without a penny to their names bi or triweekly with the orthodox preliminary canter of complimentplaying and walking out leading up to fond lovers' ways and flowers and chocs.
Courtship, love, presents, jointures, settlements have no place in their thoughts, or terms whereby to express them in their language.
He had always liked the good-hearted rake, Turovtsin-he was associated in his mind with memories of his courtship-and at that moment, after the strain of intellectual conversation, the sight of Turovtsin’s good-natured face was particularly welcome.
Gummidge, whose courtship would appear to have been of an exactly parallel nature, she was so continually reminded by these transactions of the old one.
Then Traddles and I played a game or two at cribbage; and Dora singing to the guitar the while, it seemed to me as if our courtship and marriage were a tender dream of mine, and the night when I first listened to her voice were not yet over.
'I descended-as I might have known I should, but that he fascinated me with his boyish courtship-into a doll, a trifle for the occupation of an idle hour, to be dropped, and taken up, and trifled with, as the inconstant humour took him.
It may reflect S's disquiet about his sexual proclivities: he writes a sad record of longing and vacillation in his two-year courtship of a certain Karen, a Danish psychoanalyst, and his almost immediate divorce from her after their marriage in 1938.
) Hardly a word about her courtship with Joseph Gousha--they meet offstage and zip, they're off to marry--or about the nature of their subsequent disagreements.
Your future partners don't know about your past condom use and therefore can't reward it with extravagant courtship.
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