coquetting
Example Sentences
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Thus he passed successively into the hands of the Scots, the Parliament and the New Model, trying to reverse the verdict of arms by coquetting with each in turn.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
He must have been couching somewhere, the funny old rogue, behind the Pole; he must have been coquetting with the beauties of Greenland or Nova Zembla.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
Then Nellie, who had been coquetting with his hopes and fears, had once again plunged him into the depths.
From Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by Charles King
But they finally went away, and later in the season the wrens appeared, and after a little coquetting, were regularly installed in their old quarters and were as happy as only wrens can be.
From Wake-Robin by John Burroughs
But Heine is to our view always the same, always the representative of humor with "a laughing tear" in his escutcheon, always the poetic anomaly, coquetting with his pain and scoffing it away.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
