coquetting
Example Sentences
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Yes, by dividing cord wood into stove lengths, toying with the spade, coquetting with big bundles of grain.
From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill
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
Remember, no vagaries, no irregularities, no coquetting with the ‘one time that never hurts one.’
From The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel by John Strange Winter
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 Julia Ward Howe
The goldfinches swept by overhead with a gleam of colour from their wings, coquetting on their way to the apple-trees.
From Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies
