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

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

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

You will say, I am a coquet even in friendship; and I am not quite sure you are not in the right.

From The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke

It is a place of fugitive resort, an heterogeneous assemblage of sea-mews and stockbrokers, Amphitrites of the town, and misses that coquet with the Ocean.

From Hastings and Neighbourhood by Walter Higgins

Love iz a lighted kandel, and coquets fly around it, just az a miller duz, till by-and-by they dive into it, and then what a burnt coquet and miller we hav.

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

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

For some time her pen coquetted with country trifles, as if the writer were trying to escape from an unpleasant topic which nevertheless forced itself into notice, and at last banished every other.

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson

So she coquetted even with suffering and found pleasure in bearing it gracefully.

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern

Nodding bluebells coquetted with the tiny wave crests, while the grass along the bank waved little blades in defiance at the roar of its voice.

From Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter by Merrill Tileston

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

From Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet

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

She was more like herself now, laughing softly and coquetting with the hole in the cave.

From Nobody's Child by Elizabeth Dejeans

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

But they finally went away, and later in the season the wrens appeared, and after a little coquetting, were regularly installed in their old quarters and were as happy as only wrens can be.

From Wake-Robin by John Burroughs

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