The latest steps in the alliance will test whether their long courtship has made integration any easier.

Their friends often remarked that the wedded life of this happy pair seemed like one long courtship.

The long courtship has finally blossomed with the announcement of the new Lansdowne Road Stadium Development Company Ltd.

Traditionally, bridal gifts were to bring two families together, to unite them through the love of two young people following a long courtship.

We sailors, Miss Elliot, cannot afford to make long courtships in time of war.

I detest long courtships; they must be perfect antidotes to love; are they not, Mr.

These simple people do not believe in long courtships.

I'm not for long courtships, but there must be a bit o' time to make things comfortable.

Long courtships can be magical.

"It is the fashion now-a-days to dispense with time and long courtships."

We shall never give each other up; and you know that you have always objected to long courtships and late marriages.

"In the wilderness we don't have such long courtships."

Studying them in the wild, Dr. Kyle Summers of East Carolina University in Greenville noticed that "they would engage in these very long courtships".

"About a year ago," resumed the host, "she accepted, after a long courtship, a young man by the name of-oh ,let'scall him Jones."