coquet
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A: I'm afraid I was a bit of a coquet in my youth, but now that I'm a grandmother with an 18-year-old granddaughter, I'm simplifying what I wear.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2010
The petty kings themselves began now to coquet with Tehrak, and to invite his co-operation in an attempt, which they promised they would make, to throw off the yoke of the Assyrians.
From Ancient Egypt by Rawlinson, George
Suckcess iz a coquet, and a bashful lover never wins her.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
His wings moved so slowly he seemed to fly without pressure on the air—as slowly as a lady fans herself when there is no one to coquet with.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard
Love iz a lighted kandel, and coquets fly around it, just az a miller duz, till by-and-by they dive into it, and then what a burnt coquet and miller we hav.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
Madame coquetted with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel’s old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
She should have remembered he was not to be coquetted with.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
He had 323 passed all his years in school, fed, clad, thought for, commanded; and had grown familiar and coquetted with the fear of punishment.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
If Eloise d'Anville hadn't coquetted with young Creil I shouldn't be Commissioner here to-day, settling my account with Louis.
From One-Act Plays By Modern Authors by Various
A bright red rose showed among the manifold braids of her black hair, and she had in her hand a rose-colored fan, with which she coquetted very prettily.
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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 King, Charles
For, young as was the younger daughter of Ambrose Powell, she was no child of simplicity, but could play at coquetting with the oldest and cleverest coquette there.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
More than the five o'clock tea affectation was to come of the new coquetting with English fashions.
From Our Philadelphia by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
Summer zephyrs were coquetting with the sombre pine-branches; summer-scents were stealing up to Jessie's windows from the garden.
From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion
The conjurer twists first one, then two, butterflies out of a bit of white paper, and, by means of a fan, causes them to fly and poise as if they were coquetting with July breezes.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward
