unwooed

Overseas aidJohn Arne Riise, or "mummy's boy", finally joined this summer having been utterly unwooed by the club's fluttering eyelashes before he signed for Liverpool in 2001, supposedly on the advice of his representative – his mother.

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One, that she would yet make Mr. Raleigh feel her power, yielded to shame and self-contempt, and she despised herself for a woman won unwooed.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

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

Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912

Undine was almost ashamed that the unwooed Mabel should be the witness of her own felicity, and planned to send her off on a trip to Denver when Peter should announce his arrival; but the weeks passed, and Peter did not come.

The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899

That others should long and strive for that which had come to him, unsought, unwooed, was something he could neither obviate nor deny.

Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War Charles King 1888

He dare not hope: he would not expect that one like her could so soon, so unsought, unwooed, have learned to look upon him as anything more than a friend whose loyalty to

Marion's Faith. Charles King 1888

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

The Four Million O. Henry 1886

She had been sold when he first beheld her, and should, he muttered austerely, have been ticketed the property of a middle-aged man, a worn-out French marquis, whom she had agreed to marry, unwooed, without love -- the creature of a transaction.

Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868

She had been sold when he first beheld her, and should, he muttered austerely, have been ticketed the property of a middle-aged man, a worn - out French marquis, whom she had agreed to marry, unwooed, without love

Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

She had been sold when he first beheld her, and should, he muttered austerely, have been ticketed the property of a middle-aged man, a worn-out French marquis, whom she had agreed to marry, unwooed, without love -- the creature of a transaction.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868