coquetting

Example Sentences

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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

Otherwise his career had been much like other careers, denouncing, or coquetting and even pressing for office, equable in expectation, and vindictive if refused.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

Eddying into every quiet bay, coquetting with every salient angle, moving to the melody of its own murmurs, it flows on serenely and musically.

From The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts by Holley, George W.

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

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