How To Use coquetry In A Sentence
- Still more profound a touch is that where Ottima, daring her lover to the "one thing that must be done; you know what thing: Come in and help to carry," says, with affected lightsomeness, "This dusty pane might serve for looking-glass," and simultaneously exclaims, as she throws them rejectingly from her nervous fingers, "Three, four -- four grey hairs!" then with an almost sublime coquetry of horror turns abruptly to Sebald, saying with a voice striving vainly to be blithe -- Life of Robert Browning
- Politically incorrect from the title on, this guide to old-fashioned coquetry has raised the hackles of every feminist writer worth her salt.
- The explanation is farcical and bizarre, yet there is mystery, almost coquetry, in the way Martel underplays it.
- But the slow pace of exercise indicates that these young people are more interested in coquetry than spoiling a perfectly good sweat-suit with sweat.
- Elizabeth looked up at him, her gaze straight, her expression devoid of coquetry, absolutely honest. The Virgin's Lover
- When he was gone, she scolded me, and reproached me with what she called my coquetry and imprudence; I could not bear her injustice, and very rashly replied, that no one had a right to blame me when my own conscience absolved me. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
- These works are considered as icons of amorous pursuits in an age of gallantry and the accompanying and complementary coquetry.
- Alma understood that he had power over her, power delegated to him by Joshua Seigl, and so she smiled at him with clumsy coquetry. THE TATTOOED GIRL
- I may have provoked it by flirting with him at our first encounter and I made a futile attempt of redeeming myself by trying to steer away from the coquetry to something tamer.
- There was no guile there, no artifice or coquetry, just that terrible aching beauty. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
