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
She laugh and make the mock at him, and play coquet with the others before his face.
From Roger Ingleton, Minor by Talbot Baines Reed
If she really loved him, would she coquet with him like this—would she so pretend?
From The Hoyden by Duchess
The coquet is sadly tempted to gather some of the flowers for her own use, but dares not.
From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini
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
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
It was great fun," he says; "no one can have an idea how Moscheles and I coquetted together on the piano—how the one constantly imitated the other, and how sweet we were.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles
The dance commenced with a slow gliding step, the dancers holding the ropes with one hand, while with the other the ladies coquetted their mantillas.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
Away to the westward irregular fragments of thundercloud, which seemed incapable of cohering sufficiently to produce a storm, coquetted with the quivering mountain-tops.
From By Veldt and Kopje by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
And Freyja that morning was very frisky; she minced along sideways on her golden shoes, coquetting with her own shadow, and making little playful snaps at her 110bridle.
From The Diamond Fairy Book by Various
The ostler watched her pick her way towards her master, coquetting with her head, and sidling round him in the most playful manner possible.
From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Georgette Heyer
Somebody has accused me of coquetting with history.
From Famous Prima Donnas by Lewis Clinton Strang
She was more like herself now, laughing softly and coquetting with the hole in the cave.
From Nobody's Child by Elizabeth Dejeans
They fancied that M. Thiers was coquetting with the émeute, that the petit bourgeois, as he hypocritically called himself, wanted to cozen the monarchists, and, using Paris as his lever, overthrow them.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
