1.   As a teen-ager and a young adult, I entered a phase where beach courtship rituals took over from the pursuit of natural history.

2.   Berangere Chassery, Julie Bour, Jose-Marie Alves and Emilio Calcagno were marvelous here in a courtship ritual that went from decorum to the decadent.

3.   But even to some like-minded Christian leaders, the revival of old-fashioned courtship rituals is both unrealistic and unnecessary.

4.   But it may also be the negotiating part of a courtship ritual that leads to a multiyear contract.

5.   Fertilization is sometimes preceded by elaborate courtship rituals, with hours of demonstration followed by a few minutes of copulation.

6.   In male fruit flies, the gene controls courtship rituals, copulation and sexual orientation.

7.   Remember the courtship ritual in the days of old?

8.   The fruit fly is a complex miniature machine with elaborate behavior and a courtship ritual that fly experts say closely resembles the human variety.

9.   The males later use their personal little salt shakers in their courtship ritual, bestowing the prized ion on females.

10.   The primary pre-adolescent courtship ritual is co-ed bike riding and walking.