coyness

Example Sentences

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Loveliness itself enamoured of her lovely aspect is; Coyness      decks her and upon her, pride and pudour sweetly show.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John

With much Coyness Madam Anne sits down, and, having made a Bow from her Seat to the Doctor, she asked her old Servants, how they did.

From The Levellers A Dialogue Between Two Young Ladies, Concerning Matrimony, Proposing an Act for Enforcing Marriage, for the Equality of Matches, and Taxing Single Persons by Anonymous

Here are Leisure, Enjoyment, Courtesy, the God of Love himself, love in the form of a beautiful Rose, Gracious Reception, Guardianship, Coyness, and Reason.

From Song and Legend from the Middle Ages by MacClintock, Porter Lander

Then only you’ll obtain the Prize, When you her Coyness use; If you pursue the Fair, she flies, But if you fly, pursues.

From Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 by D'Urfey, Thomas

Coyness is sometimes fear in the timid heart that is stepping into the charmed circle for the first time.

From The Fortunes of Oliver Horn by Smith, Francis Hopkinson