coquetting

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A man coquetting with too many countries is as bad as a bigamist, and loses his soul altogether.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William

Yes, by dividing cord wood into stove lengths, toying with the spade, coquetting with big bundles of grain.

From Revisiting the Earth by Hill, James Langdon

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 Howe, Julia Ward

Will they be outweighed by the preservation of one's self-respect, and is not this, after all, a matter of opinion?--is it not a sort of coquetting with one's self?

From A Twofold Life by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

“You told me yourself in so many words that I was coquetting with myself.”

From The Locusts' Years by Fee, Mary Helen