coquet

A: I'm afraid I was a bit of a coquet in my youth, but now that I'm a grandmother with an 18-year-old granddaughter, I'm simplifying what I wear.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2010

“Peter ywotisk, Peter kekoosh, moyout win coquet talenque.”

From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Gordon Stables

Suckcess iz a coquet, and a bashful lover never wins her.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

Parrots abound in carnival hues, and buff-colored doves, with soft white rings of feathers about their necks, coquet lovingly together.

From Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Maturin Murray Ballou

—Yes, yesterday, then they had been able to make plans, Maurits and she, how she should coquet with uncle, but to-day she had no thought of carrying them out.

From Invisible Links by Selma Lagerlöf

Madame coquetted with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel’s old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

He had 323 passed all his years in school, fed, clad, thought for, commanded; and had grown familiar and coquetted with the fear of punishment.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

They doubtless still coquetted with a certain sentimentality, but it seemed to me that with true sorrow true feeling had also vanished.

From A Twofold Life by Wilhelmine von Hillern

The idle wits frequented the public walks, coquetted, and made madrigals.

From Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet

And many of these came--very many, all who coquetted with a little bit of musical interest--yes, and many others.

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

He had not been by while she was coquetting with Lothar.

From The Eichhofs A Romance by Moritz von Reichenbach

Somebody has accused me of coquetting with history.

From Famous Prima Donnas by Lewis Clinton Strang

Emmie sang two more songs, Julia laughing and coquetting with Ethan over prelude and interlude; and then Julia played a nocturne.

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

Otherwise his career had been much like other careers, denouncing, or coquetting and even pressing for office, equable in expectation, and vindictive if refused.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery

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 M. Beer