1
Before the women's movement, men were supposed to make the first overture.
2
After they had drunk their coffee, Cheng San made the first overture.
3
We have not made the first overture, and there sounds the death-bell of this garrison!
4
So this was his reception of her first overture!
5
She'd fondly believed that they'd kiss and make up once she made the first overture.
6
This appears by the first overture in form sent from that kingdom, and signed by Mons.
7
The first overture we might make would almost certainly be reported to the commandant at once.
8
He was the object of my first overture.
9
Meister made his first overture to Energen a year ago with a filing in late May, 2017.
10
Had he just received his first overture of recognition from an aristocrat -a possible future councillor?
11
If that were the stumbling-block, might it not be well that the first overture should come from her?
12
Unfortunately, his first overture of what he considered good-fellowship had been made to an upper-classman, and had been a grievous mistake.
13
He would offer the first overture and a full declaration of regret, and this, he was quite sure, would make it up.
14
Barely 10 weeks after her death, her grieving father, Patrick, made the first overture to Mrs Gaskell to write his daughter's life.
15
Political figures were remaining eloquently silent in the press, and this was the first overture he had enjoyed from anyone more influential than the reporters.
16
But I am sure my dear Lord must think that the duchess should not have made the first overture,-evento a friend and a kinsman?
