Dragonflight: Segment of My Book "Planes"
During courtship, many dragons, usually more than a half dozen at a time, pursued and competed for a single receptive female. rather than physically fight, they used glorious displays of power.
//?A Curious Sergal: Part 1.001
Her clan's inability to understand why northern and southern sergals fought had been the very reason she had been allowed to perform the courtship ritual with father; any other clan would have shunned the idea of a northern male and a southern female interbreeding
The Lion Has Landed
Not many people can say that perhaps the most romantic night of their courtship started out at a dance recital.
Ander - Chapter 3, Subchapter 23
Nilia could go through the saddest funerals or witness the most beautiful courtship ceremonies, all while wearing identical expressions of stone, as if she was completely untouched by the world around her.
Sara's Story - Chapter 14
He married her after a short courtship. they had a cordial if slightly distant relationship, because he was away so often. she bore several cubs, but only the two oldest, both males survived.
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 23
Nilia could go through the saddest funerals or witness the most beautiful courtship ceremonies, all while wearing identical expressions of stone, as if she was completely untouched by the world around her.
Thoughts Behind the Scales
To think he had the gall to ask me about dragon courtship. that threw me for a loop. but i still told him all i knew. i told him about probably the best quality my people have. and it got me wondering... why ask me that? who was he pursuing? was it...me?
Wrath of a Hellhound Chapter 1
"you on the other hand tried to argue my courtship advice by making an inbred joke" ognyana brought up. "mama? what does inbred mean?" claude asked. fang slammed the newspaper down. "hey, i found something! how about this?!"
Stolen Hearts
The raccoon had met someone truly special, someone she thought she could expand beyond a courtship. she smiled to herself. he is a thief, she thought to herself, a thief that has stolen my heart.
Juryokine: Exile of Heroes, Chapter Twenty Three
courtships end in marriages, toke. i can't believe you did this without telling me." "or me!" ludsong agreed, beefy arms folded in front of his chest. evanya nodded, as if she and ludsong were on the same side. "i'm not saying i'd say no, toke.
Trouble Shared
He'd seen it in emily when she and nelson had carried their courtship to a point where benedict was certain that the match was the right one for his former protégé.
Juryokine: Exile of Heroes, Chapter Twenty Two
After the day he'd had--zashiel playing matchmaker, getting into a courtship with inaska, and nearly being killed by finch--toke hadn't given two smites about the sunlight coming through his cabin's porthole.