...de Montespan; but Mademoiselle de Tonnay-Charente did not speak of it, it seemed to me, in such a manner as would frighten suitors away...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
... With her bit of property and brilliant parts she had had many suitors but they had been refused one after another for reasons she could hardly have explained...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...Small curs are muchdisposed to bestow their affections upon huge Newfoundlands; anddiminutive bitches, if followed by a host of suitors, will give thepreference to the largest of the group...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...Maybe the femaleshouts out to her suitors, "Who touchesme first wins," and away she scurries like anarrow...
John Burroughs 「Bird Stories from Burroughs」
...These comport themselves in the hive as did Penelope's suitors in the house of Ulysses...
Maurice Maeterlinck 「The Life of the Bee」
...The suitors forthwith fall back; and they also, no doubt to keep up their dignity, execute savage mandibular grimaces...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...But she had other suitors, including the author of the Pastor Fido,and the poet Pigna, who was the secretary and favourite of thereigning duke...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...
Every gate is throng’d with suitors, all the markets overflow...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 「The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson」
..."She always seemed to have all theroyal instincts: cold to suitors, with that delicacy and reserve onefinds ideal in a princess...
Roman Frederick Starzl 「The Martian Cabal」
... About the end of each shearing the sign was touched up, with an extra coat of paint on the ‘Margaret’, whereat suitors looked hopeless...
Henry Lawson 「Joe Wilson and His Mates」
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