Crossword-Solution: COURTER 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

That was a terrible romantic man, John! Lord Byron! A terrible man for falling in love, God bless him!..." It was Uncle Matthew who urged John to read Shakespeare--"a very plain-spoken, knowledgable man, Shakespeare!"--and Lord Byron--"a terrible bad lord, John, but a fine courter of girls and a grand poet!"--and Herrick--"a queer sort of minister, that man Herrick, but a good poet all the same!"--and Dickens.

COURTER, Barnes, Washington county: Have lived in Kansas since 1869; have an apple orchard of 150 trees, set from nine to twenty-five years.

Indifference and satiety spread speedily; the bourgeoisie forsook the reformers directly they had recourse to violence (February 1358), and the Parisians became hostile when Étienne Marcel complicated his revolutionary work by intrigues with Navarre, releasing from prison the grandson of Louis X., the Headstrong, an ambitious, fine-spoken courter of popularity, covetous of the royal crown.

The night before, the mainmast-truck Strain’d lovingly the courter’s eye; Though lack’d it inland flowers to pluck, The spangled stars flow’rèd the sky.