The encounter apparently went smoothly, for a brisk courtship followed and, by August, she had accepted his proposal of marriage.

A stormy courtship followed ; Scott was not her only suitor — his main rival was would-be novelist Gilbert Cannan — and his absences at sea did not assist his cause.

Their marriage followed soon after, despite her father's views and the directness of Twm's courtship methods.

The encounter apparently went smoothly, for a brisk courtship followed ; by August Dolley accepted his proposal of marriage.

The courtship display of the males involves a distention of the pouch with swinging motions of the head up and down followed by sideways swings followed by the head being held back over the back.

During their courtship he took her on automobile drives and yacht trips and they were often followed by the press.

The story invariably had a theme of tragedy, often starting with a happy courtship but followed by a disaster such as illness or death.

What followed was a groundbreaking story for network television as the development of the romance between the two women was treated with the courtship, passion and arguments often reserved for heterosexual couples.

The courtship flight of the male Allen's Hummingbird is a frantic back and forth flight arc of about 25 feet ( 10 m ) similar to the motion of a swinging pendulum, followed by a high-speed dive from about 100 feet ( 30 m ).

This courtship is followed by more suitors: Mr. Fowler, Sir Rowland Meredith and Sir Hargrave Pollexfen.

To begin with, Scapin is a trickster in the old tradition of the clever servant who plots the strategy of courtship for his master.

Elizabeth seems to have taken the courtship seriously for a time, and wore a frog-shaped earring that Anjou had sent her.

John Rogers ( sculptor ) | Rogers Group, depicting the courtship of John Alden and Priscilla Alden | Priscilla Mullins: " Why Don't You Speak for Yourself, John?

Lamotius governed until 1692, when he was deported to Batavia for judgment for persecuting a colonist whose wife had refused his courtship.

Polyphemus is shown doing all of the things that a proper Roman suitor would do — trims his beard, composes a poem etc .— which encourage the reader / hearer to cheer for him, even though his courtship is doomed to fail.

They are believed to be the product of sexual selection for traits which give an individual an advantage over its rivals in courtship and aggressive interactions.

Salamanders also secrete poison from glands in their skin, and some additionally have skin glands for secreting courtship pheromones.

Federigo degli Alberighi, who loves but is not loved in return, spends all the money he has in courtship and is left with only a falcon, which, since he has nothing else to give her, he offers to his lady to eat when she visits his home ; then she, learning of this, changes her mind, takes him for her husband, and makes him rich.

There is no evidence to suggest that they engaged in a sexual relationship until very shortly before their marriage ; Henry's love letters to Anne seem to suggest that their love affair remained unconsummated for much of their seven year courtship.

In Joyce's Ulysses, rhododendrons play an important role in Leopold and Molly's early courtship: Molly remembers them in her soliloquy-" the sun shines for you he said the day we were lying among the rhododendrons on Howth head in the grey tweed suit and his straw hat the day I got him to propose to me ".

As described in The Courtship of Princess Leia, Leia marries Han after a near-disastrous courtship in which Prince Isolder vies for her affections.

Visual communication is limited due to poor eyesight, and is mainly used for activities such as lekking for courtship purposes.

In the autumn of 1878, at the age of 20, Emmeline Goulden met and began a courtship with Richard Pankhurst, a barrister who had advocated women's suffrage – and other causes, including freedom of speech and education reform – for years.

Most members of the family engage in courtship feeding, where the male presents prey items to the female, and such feeding can account for much if not all of the energy females require for egg creation.

Peafowl are two Asiatic species of flying bird in the genus Pavo of the pheasant family, Phasianidae, best known for the male's extravagant eye-spotted tail, which it displays as part of courtship.

Accordingly, the courtship failed and Sphrantzes took steps to arrange for a marriage with a princess either from Trebizond Empire or the Kingdom of Georgia.

During courtship the male newt " displays " for his prospective mate by vibrating his tail in front of the female in a distinctive fashion.

Earlier courtship by the Huygens family to win her for Maurits had failed.

* Freyr has three magical items, including the ship Skidbladnir, his boar Gullinbursti and a sword with the ability to fight on its own which he gave to Skirnir in return for his role in the courtship of Gerd.

In his book, The Dying Animal, Philip Roth uses Las Meninas as a metaphor for the distracted attraction of courtship.

After a courtship with Slue-Foot Sue in which, among other things, Pecos Bill shoots all the stars from the sky except for one which becomes the Lone Star, Pecos proposes to Sue.

Whilst on her third pilgrimage in 1937 the two began a discreet courtship.

The introduction of these two terms may indicate the beginning of the broad acceptance of new, more liberal forms of courtship in Western Culture.

* Dating, a form of courtship which may include any social activity undertaken by, typically, two persons with the aim of assessing each other's suitability as a partner.

The two main theories have revolved around use in combat, or display in courtship, with the latter thought now to be the most likely primary function.

Hendricks was married to Eliza Morgan on September 26, 1845 after a two year courtship.

The two became engaged after two weeks of courtship and were married three months later.

The two were married in Mexico after years of long-distance courtship, on June 28, 1945.

Fletcher was impressed with Herrmann's work, and the two began a five-year courtship.

Changes to the text include a new, albeit silent scene just prior to the Battle of Wakefield where York embraces Rutland before heading out to fight ; an extension of the courtship between Edward and Lady Grey, and the edition of two subplots ; one concerning a mistress of Edward's who he accidentally kills in battle ( an allusion to Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's Philaster ), the other involving an attempt by Warwick to seduce Lady Grey after her husband's death at the Second Battle of St. Albans ( this is later used as a rationale for why Warwick turns against Edward ).

The fulmarine petrels, which nest on the surface and attend their colonies diurnally, do use a repertoire of stereotyped behaviours such as cackling, preening, head waving and nibbling, but for most species courtship interactions are limited to some billing ( rubbing the two bills together ) in the burrow and the vocalisations made by all species.

Anne later welcomes the courtship of the darkly handsome Roy Gardner, but she realizes that he does not truly belong in her life and rejects his proposal after two years of courtship.

She often looks worn out, which makes sense given her offscreen responsibilities but works against her tale of courtship, infatuation and the emotional sparks that fly between two gifted, bullheaded artists.

As Chinese families can be rather extended, and there may be one or two hundred people, it is entirely possible during a courtship to not have been introduced to someone.

In the two species whose male courtship displays are known, they are elaborate, culminating in the males ' parachute-style descent looking like " green balls of fluff ".

One of the earliest romance novels was Samuel Richardson's popular 1740 novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, which was revolutionary on two counts: it focused almost entirely on courtship and did so entirely from the perspective of a female protagonist.

Adult males have a yellow patch over the eye, are grayish on top with a white breast, a dark brown throat and a black belly ; two yellowish sacs on the neck are inflated during courtship display.

Carrot instead places it under arrest, however Errol lets the dragon escape, revealing that the dragon is in fact female, the battle between the two in fact being a courtship ritual.

The British Ornithologists ' Union's Taxonomic Records Committee's decision to accept this split has been questioned on the grounds that the differences in the male courtship displays may be functionally trivial, and would not prevent interbreeding, whereas a difference in a pre-copulation display would indicate that the two are separate species.

Prue later experiences growth in her magical abilities when she develops the power to " be in two places at once " via Astral Projection, and learns to open herself up to the potential of love again through a courtship with a fellow Buckland's employee Jack Sheridan ( Lochlyn Munro ) and a romantic fling with ex-con Bane Jessup ( Antonio Sabato, Jr .).

Birds have been observed engaging in tandem flight on two occasions in Venezuela by naturalist Marsha Schlee, who has proposed it could be a part of courtship behaviour.

A courtship may be an informal and private matter between two people or may be a public affair, or a formal arrangement with family approval.

Systematic research into courtship processes inside the workplace as well two 10-year studies examining norms in different international settings continue to support a view that courtship is a social process that socialises both sexes into accepting forms of relationship that maximise the chances of successfully raising children.