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When she wrote about her time living with Sachs, Leduc admitted that she bored him with her piteous tales about her childhood, but also wrote, “I am courting him with my misfortunes.”

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2014

Kate," said the young man, firmly, "I am courting you this two years.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various

Well, mademoiselle, these two consent; but what do you say? for after all, it is you I am courting, and not them.

From White Lies by Reade, Charles

I am courting Miss Sally, and such a loan would be irregular.

From Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent by Butler, Ellis Parker

"There was no need to tell her that, wife, she knows I am courting her this twelvemonth."

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles