coquetting

Example Sentences

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Somebody has accused me of coquetting with history.

From Famous Prima Donnas by Strang, Lewis Clinton

"Is she only coquetting with me?" he asked himself, "or--or--" A passionate joy throbbed in his veins, then suddenly an icy shudder ran over him.

From Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso by Schubin, Ossip

His associate officers loitered through the listless days, coquetting with the pretty wife of the barber, smoking cigars in the shop, and listening to the petty gossip of the place.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

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

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.