coquet
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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
Just here Hazel entered and replenished the hearth, stopping half-way, with her armful of brush, to coquet an instant in the mirror, and adjust the scarlet love-knot in her curls.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various
My private opinyun ov a coquet iz, that if they suckceed in dieing an old maid, they don’t deserve all the punishment they receive.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
If she really loved him, would she coquet with him like this—would she so pretend?
From The Hoyden by Duchess
If you are so inclined, you play low, and coquet with fortune, or if lavishly given, you throw the reins loose and go free.
From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
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
An', father,"—here she coquetted with him—"you and mother are not to 'nopolize him when he comes.
From The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona by Cora Marsland
Butterflies spread their light wings and coquetted with the fragrant blossoms, and busy humming-bees buried themselves in the heart of the crimson wild rose.
From Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love by Laura Jean Libbey
Much of what my grandfather had told me of the first Pretender was repeated, save that as the first had made alliance with the Mohammedans, so the second coquetted with the Christians.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
It appears in the tender and so infinitely sad lines which he wrote in prison, and likewise in the Confessions, a vain, exaggeratedly candid and coquetting portrait in prose.
From Paul Verlaine by Stefan Zweig
Footnote 17: A coquetting with virtue as a virtuoso, of course Gaspard means.
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
More than the five o'clock tea affectation was to come of the new coquetting with English fashions.
From Our Philadelphia by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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
She was more like herself now, laughing softly and coquetting with the hole in the cave.
From Nobody's Child by Elizabeth Dejeans
