Example Sentences

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Whose face, the mirror of the cloudless sky, Lures to her bosom wooingly?

From The Bride of Messina, and On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy by Schiller, Friedrich

The night was fine, the air flowed refreshingly from the verdure of the immense woods, and the scent of the thyme and flowers of the heath, pressed by my foot, rose "wooingly on the air."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

But at once this martial tone gives place to the tender invitation of the text, and the infinite divine willingness to be reconciled to the enemy speaks wooingly and offers conditions of peace.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander

"Sorcerette, dear!" said Clarence's voice wooingly in the dim doorway.

From The Wishing-Ring Man by Widdemer, Margaret

It opened onto a wide terrace; the stars were shining brightly, the night air came to her softly and wooingly.

From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Garvice, Charles