coquetting

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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

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