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 Mayne Reid
The blooming rose conceals an asp, And bliss, coquetting, flies the grasp.
From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Hannah Jane Locker-Lampson
But strange to say, in 1830 we find Francis actually coquetting with revolution.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
Footnote 17: A coquetting with virtue as a virtuoso, of course Gaspard means.
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
But Heine is to our view always the same, always the representative of humor with "a laughing tear" in his escutcheon, always the poetic anomaly, coquetting with his pain and scoffing it away.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
