Grigorss overcomes the suitor in battle, delivers the city from its oppressors and marries Sibylla who had fallen in love with the beautiful knight the moment she saw him.

Andrew Lo asserts that Zhou Mi meant dominoes when referring to pupai, since the Ming author Lu Rong ( 1436 – 1494 ) explicitly defined pupai as dominoes ( in regards to a story of a suitor who won a maiden's hand by drawing out four winning pupai from a set ).

Courtenay's suitor is " Douglas Steele ", an athletic man who apparently believes Courtenay is helpless without him.

Lucy Martin A young woman who chose to marry a repulsive suitor rather than wait for her true love, in order to provide for her aging mother.

Beppo falls in love with Annette Ancello, but her father, Trudo, wants her to marry another suitor, one who is a successful businessman.

They take advantage of the fact that young Cécile is secretly in love with her music teacher, the Chevalier Raphael Danceny ( Keanu Reeves ), who is penniless and therefore does not qualify in the eyes of her mother as a potential suitor.

" This Deianira drove a chariot and practiced the art of war ", noted the Bibliotheca ( book i, 8: 1 ), but she wanted nothing to do with her suitor, who was able to take the form of a speckled serpent, a bull-headed man, or a bull.

Achelous was a suitor for Deianeira, daughter of Oeneus king of Calydon, but was defeated by Heracles, who wed her himself.

# Euryalus was a suitor of Hippodamia who, like all the suitors before Pelops, was killed by Oenomaus.

" On Alf, the Defender of Chastity: Alf, a suitor to the princess Alvilda kills two serpents who are guarding her chastity.

* In Space Balls, actor Jim J. Bullock is Prince Valium, the consistently-sleepy suitor of Princess Vespa ( Daphne Zuniga ) who Vespa leaves at the altar.

All of these similar tales of abduction by another suitor – and this allegory includes Lancelot, who whisks her away when she is condemned to burn at the stake for their adultery – are demonstrative of a recurring Hades-snatches-Persephone theme, positing that Guinevere is like the otherworld bride Étaín, who Midir, king of the Underworld, carries off from her earthly life after she has forgotten her past.

* Mr. Brisk, a suitor of MERCY's, who gives up courting her when he finds out that she makes clothing only to give away to the poor.

Ironically, her latest young suitor Johnny Mitchell falls in love with her kind daughter ( played as an adult by Marjorie Riordan ), who has returned from Europe because of the rise of the Nazis.

* Johnny Mitchell as Johnny Mitchell, a younger suitor of Fanny's who later marries her daughter.

Cú Chulainn, who had recently arrived at Scáthach's fortress-home to be her pupil, accidentally broke one of Uathach's fingers, and Uathach's suitor, Cochar Croibhe, challenged him to single combat despite Uathach's protests.

Milnes was a persistent suitor of Florence Nightingale ( who finally refused to marry him ), and one of her staunchest supporters along with the statesman Sidney Herbert.

Chichele was the third and youngest son of Thomas Chicheley, who appears in 1368 in still extant town records of Higham Ferrers as a suitor in the mayor's court, and in 1381 – 1382, and again in 1384 – 1385, was mayor: in fact, for a dozen years he and Henry Barton, schoolmaster of Higham Ferrers grammar school, and one Richard Brabazon, filled the mayoralty in turns.

However, she wants nothing to do with him or another suitor, Googly-Goo ; she is in love with Pon, the current gardener who is the son of the first usurper Phearse.

The identical looks of Chieko and Naeko confuse Hideo, a traditional weaver, who is a potential suitor of Chieko.

The actress worked with detectives hunting the killer they believe claimed the life of the Asian teenager who turned down her suitor for an arranged marriage.

Boq was an unwanted but ardent suitor that Glinda foisted upon Nessarose, the Munchkin Governor's daughter, who became so attached to him that she stripped the Munchkins of their rights just to keep Boq with her ( thus earning the title " Wicked Witch of the East ").

On the theme in the Canterbury Tales about freedom and sovereignty in marriage, the Franklin's Tale arguably explores three successive acts of conscience or gentilesse springing from rich human generosity: by Dorigen's husband, her suitor and the magician who cancels the debt owed to him.

Women only left the convent after they had been " won " by an Indian suitor and were deemed ready for marriage.

He attributed Dunn's removal to fan interest dominating the Logan-Veronica relationship, saying " it became clear that one suitor won out ".

The expedition was led by her former suitor, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

His determined Prussian wife showed a strong dislike for this Swedish suitor, because Prussia was a Polish fief and the Polish King Sigismund III Vasa still resented his loss of Sweden to Gustavus Adolphus ' father Charles IX.

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.

Launched by Elizabeth's old suitor Philip II of Spain, this was commanded by Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, the seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia.

However, his first major stage success was his role as an awkward suitor of Jessica Tandy in " A Streetcar Named Desire ," which also helped make Brando a star on stage.

General Motors was reported to be a suitor while Volkswagen, the Renault-Nissan auto alliance, and Hyundai Motor Company had said that they weren't interested in buying the company.

For her part, Caroline was not fooled by the prince's disguise, and found her suitor attractive.

She giving him reason to hope, he was a suitor for the Queen's hand for many years.

The marriage of young people was usually arranged between their relatives — the groom's father providing the bride-price, which, with other gifts, the suitor ceremonially presented to the bride's father.

This is significant because some critics argue that in an original version of the play, now lost, Hortensio was not a suitor to Bianca, but simply an old friend of Petruchio ( this is a modification of the Ur-Shrew theory, which instead of arguing that a play by someone other than Shakespeare served as a source, argues that an earlier draft by Shakespeare once existed ).

Daniel and Honigmann believe that an original version of the play existed in which Hortensio was simply a friend of Petruchio's, and had no involvement in the Bianca subplot, but wishing to complicate things, Shakespeare rewrote the play, expanding Hortensio's role, but not fully correcting everything to fit the presence of a new suitor.

:' My suitor was the river Achelóüs,

: Such was my suitor.

It turns out that Albert was the first suitor of whom both her parents approved.

# Agelaus, or Agelaos, son of Damastor was a suitor of Penelope, killed by Odysseus.

Despite Odysseus's warning, he was compelled by Athena to stay, as he had been a suitor nonetheless.

Prior to Aeneas ' arrival in Italy, Turnus was the primary potential suitor of Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, King of the Latin people.

His father, Cumhall, a warrior in Conn's service, was a suitor of Muirne, daughter of the druid Tadg mac Nuadat, but Tadg refused his suit, so Cumhall abducted her.