woo
verb (used with object)
to seek the favor, affection, or love of, especially with a view to marriage.
wooingly
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a word derived from
woo.
Example Sentences
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This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved masonry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze.
From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by John Burroughs
Naturally enough, they liked to stay in camp when wind and tide were against us, but didn't care to make up lost time after dark however wooingly wind and tide might flow and blow.
From Travels in Alaska by John Muir
Soft and delicate odours impregnated the atmosphere and tender strains of delicate music stole wooingly on the senses from the strings of a distant lute.
From If I Were King by Justin McCarthy
With all our light sails wooingly spread, we held on our way, until, with the doctor's glass, Papeetee, the village metropolis of Tahiti, came into view.
From Omoo by Herman Melville
Then on, for elders odorously will steal My senses till I climb up where they heal The livid heat of its malingering ray, And wooingly betray To memory many a long-forgotten day.
From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice
