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Miss, would you submit to a wooing by a gentleman caller?
Señorita, ¿se sometería al galanteo de un caballero?
The maiden, shyly, dares not respond to his wooing.
La moza, tímida, no se atreve a responder a su galanteo.
There was nothing to be gained by gentle wooing;
No había nada que conquistar con su suave galanteo;
As can be seen, in the matter of wooing I am not my father’s son.
Como puede verse, en asuntos de galanteo no soy el hijo de mi padre.
they made fun of his highly visible wooings of local conservatives;
hacían chanza a costa de sus visibles galanteos con los conservadores de la zona;
He had seen-clever, clever boy that he was-that she could not be won by wooing;
Llegó a adivinar, y eso demostraba lo muy inteligente que era, que a ella no se la ganaba con galanteos;
she asked on one occasion, interrupting a stanza that lamented a soldier’s fruitless wooing of a countess.
—preguntó en una ocasión, interrumpiendo una copla que lloraba el infructuoso galanteo del soldado con una condesa—.
Her strident voice, quite out of key with the secret and muted atmosphere of an arbour'd wooing, splintered the darkness.
Su voz estridente, que desentonaba con la secreta y callada atmósfera de galanteo en un cenador, desgarró la oscuridad.
They strutted and stalked, clattered their castanets, and frowned ineffably at each other. “What an angry woo,” Tim said.
Se pavonearon y dibujaron pasos largos, hicieron repiquetear las castañuelas y se miraron, inefables y ceñudos. —Qué galanteo tan furioso —dijo Tim.
like a latter-day Cyrano de Bergerac, he orchestrated the courtship of another, encouraging the timid Bottomshaw to woo Lady Collier with enthusiasm.
como un Cyrano de Bergerac de los últimos tiempos, había orquestado el galanteo, animando al tímido Bottomshaw para que cortejara con entusiasmo a Lady Collier.
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