Sentence examples for courtship note from inspiring English sources

The first volumes spanned the years 1762 to 1778, beginning with a whimsical courtship note from John to Abigail Smith (Dec. 30, 1761) and ending in March 1778 with Abigail's protracted lament to her sister after John's departure on his first embassy to France.

I feel confident Pee-Chee folders played a part in our years-long courtship: notes were passed and stored, drawings were shared and laughed at, and homework was carried to far-flung classrooms.

The presence of unambiguous male courtship behaviours was noted in each experiment including seizing, turning and mating (mounting with or without spermatophore deposition, see Table 2 for definitions of behaviours).

Males sing courtship songs with complex note-to-note transition rules, while females discriminate these songs when choosing their mate.

Their courtship begins on a rocky note when Polly suggests they go to a Moroccan restaurant and Reuben's fragile digestive system goes haywire.

Curlews lifted from the pastures as we passed and then descended, trailing notes of their courtship songs across the landscape.

(She reveals no other details about their courtship, and 40 pages later, notes briefly that they broke up).

The CI is the proportion of time that the courting male spends actively courting (wing vibration, licking and attempting copulation) the object fly (no qualitative difference was noted between the courtship sequences of the different courting males).

He leaves her a note and begins a courtship by mail.

In addition to their flamboyant coloration, male manakins are also noted for their exuberant courtship displays.

At times, Mr. Clinton seemed to be suppressing an adolescent pride in enumerating the recycled gifts and tatty grace notes of his clandestine courtship.