Example Sentences

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Carol J. Lastrucci San Francisco We unwooed and unwon liberal Republicans just may have a candidate after all.

From Time Magazine Archive

One so good, so lovely, so fitted in every way to form the centre of another home circle as Fanny Elder, could hardly remain unwooed or unwon.

From True Riches Or, Wealth Without Wings by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

And Tildy was content to be the unwooed drudge if Aileen could receive the flattery and the homage.

From The Four Million by Henry, O.

I sighed my heart into the boughs   Whereby the culvers cooed; For only I between them went   Unwooing and unwooed.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean

To this it may be due that Miss Arabella had reached the age of five and twenty not merely unmarried but unwooed.

From Captain Blood by Sabatini, Rafael