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"But," he said, wagging his head with a grave humorousness, "your lordship needs not to ride a-courting. You are to be married to a great dame who will bring you wealth, alliance, and the dower of provinces." The young man shrugged his shoulders, and swung lightly off his charger, which turned to look at him as he stood and patted its neck.
When this new lover came a-courting, the African woman had always greeted him at the door with that wide, sudden smile of hers, at once simple, like a child's, and wild, like the grin of an animal; and her voice, in her thick jargon, was nearly as softly rich to him as to Dorothy.
Great was the joy of all these citizens when a scouting party came in, one day, bringing with them the daughter of one of their toughest old hunters and a young buck, from another faction, who had come a-courting; her in the neighboring shades. Capture meant death, usually, and he knew it, but he held himself proudly and refused to ask for mercy. It was resolved that he should die.
The Esmonds of his grandfather's nurture, sir, would not go a-courting in the kitchen." "Well, ma'am, every man to his taste, I say again. A fellow might go farther and fare worse than my brother's servants'-hall, and besides Fan, there's only the maids or old Maria to choose from." "Maria! Impossible!"
It's a lonely place, is Loudacott, and it wasn't many folks that we saw there when I was a child; but when I growed up into a comely maid, and men seed me now and again to market or fairing time, they began to come a-courting; for 'twasn't me only that they would get, but forty acre of land with me, if father liked mun well.
In what might be the next tribe, the trouble was the other way. There were too many boys, a surplus of men, and not nearly enough girls to go round. When any young fellow, moping out his life alone and anxious for a wife, went a-courting in the next tribe, or in their vale, or on their hill top, he was usually driven off with stones. Then there was a quarrel between the two tribes.
Myles Standish, compact, hard-headed little captain of the Puritan guard at Plymouth, never knew the meaning of fear until he went a-courting Priscilla Mullins or was she a Molines, as some say? He had fought white men and red men and never reeked of danger in the doing it, but his courage sank to his boots whenever this demure maiden glanced at him, as he thought, with approval.
It is a miller's DIRTY face our mono-maniacs of woman imitate, not the face a miller goes a-courting with." "La! what a fuss about nothing!" "About nothing! Is your health nothing? Is your beauty nothing? Well, then, it will cost you nothing to promise me never to put powder on your face again." "Very well, I promise. Now what will you do for me?"
Her parents saw that she had power more than is common to maidens, but she was wise and modest, and they loved her and said nothing. "'Let her have a husband and children, they said, 'and her strangeness will pass. But they were very much disappointed at what happened to all the young men who came a-courting.
This softened the old servant, whose manner till then had been sullen and grim. "You need not fret, Mr. Walter," said he; "it's all right. In course I know where you have been." Walter looked up alarmed. "I mean in a general way," said the old man. "You have been a-courting of an angel.
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