coquetting

Example Sentences

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Yes, by dividing cord wood into stove lengths, toying with the spade, coquetting with big bundles of grain.

From Revisiting the Earth by Hill, James Langdon

With Heine, too, who at that time was coquetting with Communism, he carried on a sprightly and not unfruitful intercourse.

From The life and teaching of Karl Marx by Beer, M.

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 blooming rose conceals an asp, And bliss, coquetting, flies the grasp.

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane

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