How To Use Coquetry In A Sentence
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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
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Politically incorrect from the title on, this guide to old-fashioned coquetry has raised the hackles of every feminist writer worth her salt.
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The explanation is farcical and bizarre, yet there is mystery, almost coquetry, in the way Martel underplays it.
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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.
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Elizabeth looked up at him, her gaze straight, her expression devoid of coquetry, absolutely honest.
The Virgin's Lover
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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
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These works are considered as icons of amorous pursuits in an age of gallantry and the accompanying and complementary coquetry.
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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
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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.
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There was no guile there, no artifice or coquetry, just that terrible aching beauty.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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If she showed any tendency to coquetry he would be apt to straighten her tie, or if she "took up" with him at all, to call her by her first name.
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He called my attention to what he led me to term coquetry between my wife and this young man.
Chapter XII
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If she showed any tendency to coquetry he would be apt to straighten her tie, or if she "took up" with him at all, to call her by her first name.
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Coquetry is as fascinating to those who practise it, as to those whom it seduces; and she found herself, shortly, more happy by a conquest effected by wiles and by art, than by any devotion paid straight forward, and uncourted.
Camilla
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She turned to him then with the most blatant coquetry that a woman of her character can devise.
DANSVILLE
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There was something compulsive, engaging, about Krakow's siege mentality, and spring, with all its brash coquetry, seemed oddly antipathetic.
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The young woman readjusted her somewhat draggled plumes with a feeble, faded coquetry; Mother Shipton eyed the possessor of "Five Spot" with malevolence, and Uncle Billy included the whole party in one sweeping anathema.
Short Stories for English Courses
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These works are considered as icons of amorous pursuits in an age of gallantry and the accompanying and complementary coquetry.
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A girl of seventeen -- a girl with a "missish" name, with a "missish" face as well, soft skin, bright eyes, dark hair, medium height and a certain amount of coquetry in her attire.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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Cecil's unfortunate encouragement of the night before -- displayed more with a view to chagrining Sir Penthony than from a mere leaning toward coquetry -- has fanned his passion to a very dangerous height.
Molly Bawn
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In Mary's eyes, as she developed her feminist philosophy, her employer came to stand for all that was wrong in women - their coquetry, their exaggerated weakness, their corrupt manipulating power and their dependence on men for identity.
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Lady (pseudonym, don't you think?) lies the Country of Eligibleness, and within it, the cliffside Land of Love of Admiration ( & Vanity) as well as the "High grounds of Matrimonial," camouflaged by the sheer drop into Land of Coquetry where one encounters "Male Traps: Province of Deception," "Affectation," and "Valley of Mother's Artifice.
Suzanne O'Malley: Day 14 of 29: Secrets to the Map of a Women's Heart
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Harry continued her first object for some little time, but soon the idea of piquing him was merely an excuse for coquetry.
Tales and Novels — Volume 09
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Though she was not unattractive, Ben had spurned her several times simply because she always came on too strong and would not desist her coquetry.
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There is gossip, friendship, coquetry and wily bargain amid the whiff of condiments and pickles.
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I dread that she should acquire preposterous notions of love, of happiness, from the furtive perusal of vulgar novels, or from the clandestine conversation of ignorant waiting-maids: – I dread that she should acquire, even from the enchanting eloquence of Rousseau, the fatal idea, that cunning and address are the natural resources of her sex; that coquetry is necessary to attract, and dissimulation to preserve the heart of man.
Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
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It also represents other states such as hatred, pride, falseness and coquetry, depending on the variety you choose to give.
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QUOTATION: Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it.
Quotations
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Still, pleasant as her recollections were, she often looked back self-reproachfully upon passages of her youth; and Sainte-Beuve, though he calls her coquetry "_une coquetterie angelique_," recognizes it as a blemish.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
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'And what if I tell you that I know it -- that in the very employment of the arts of what you call coquetry, I am but exercising those powers of pleasing by which men are led to frequent the salon instead of the café, and like the society of the cultivated and refined better than --'
Lord Kilgobbin
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Was there a spice of feminine coquetry in her famous speech to John Alden?
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I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or hear in her conversation; it was merry, rather small; by turns I saw vivacity, vanity, coquetry, look out through its irid, but I watched in vain for a glimpse of soul.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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She was always in a dither of affected coquetry, and he had begun to think he had misjudged her character.
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When the negotiations began, she greeted the duke's agent with a courtesy and coquetry that was unusual.
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It also connoted coquetry - namely, the flirtatious batting of the eyes.
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I became the victim of ingratitude and cold coquetry — then I desponded, and imagined that my discontent gave me a right to hate the world.
The Last Man
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The exhibit looks at animalism and concepts of femininity, sexual fetishes, seduction, excess, coquetry and class standing.
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she showed any tendency to coquetry he would be apt to straighten her tie, or if she " took up " with him at all, to ...
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Because a handsome girl has had a spark of coquetry, that is no reason. &cdq;
The Europeans
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A skirt, or upper-petticoat of camlet, like those worn by country ladies of moderate rank when on horseback, with such a riding-mask as they frequently use on journeys to preserve their eyes and complexion from the sun and dust, and sometimes, it is suspected, to enable then to play off a little coquetry.
Redgauntlet
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Claudio was easily caught in her web of coquetry and lies.
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There are endless stories - some verifiable, others less so - of her coquetry and randiness.
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305 These pretentious and curious displays of coquetry are not uncommon in handsome slave-girls when newly bought; and it is a kind of pundonor to humour them.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Alongside Corella, she is perfectly cast as Kitri with precisely the right Latin looks and temperament, quickly flitting from coquetry to fiery and all stops between.
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The exhibit looks at animalism and concepts of femininity, sexual fetishes, seduction, excess, coquetry and class standing.
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Love has its piece of bread, but it has also its science of loving, that science which we call coquetry, a delightful word which the
The Physiology of Marriage, Complete
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She looks the part, and acts it with wonderfully outrageous coquetry, even if obliged to force her voice rather worryingly in the lower register.
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If this refusal is the result of an offended sensibility, you cannot exert yourself too warmly in its consolation; even if it is from pride, it has a just claim to your concessions, since she thinks you have injured it; yet pause before you act, may it not be merely from a confidence of power that loves to tyrannize over its slaves, by playing with their chains? or a lurking spirit of coquetry, that desires to regain the liberty of trifling with some new Sir Sedley Clarendel? or, perhaps, with Sir Sedley himself? '
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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Bell Fermor and her lover: your friend has been indiscreet; her spirit of coquetry is eternally carrying her wrong; but in my opinion Fitzgerald has been at least equally to blame.
The History of Emily Montague
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she showed any tendency to coquetry he would be apt to straighten her tie, or if she " took up " with him at all, to ...
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[FN#305] These pretentious and curious displays of coquetry are not uncommon in handsome slave-girls when newly bought; and it is a kind of pundonor to humour them.
Arabian nights. English
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The coquetry and sexual dishonesty, implicit in the dialogue, was missing in her performance which boiled down to a nice suburban mother making a choice of her partner for the croquet match between two contrasting, naughty boys.
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These works are considered as icons of amorous pursuits in an age of gallantry and the accompanying and complementary coquetry.
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He has the look of one of Caravaggio's young male models, though without their coquetry.
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For example, Canadian-born Anne-Made Hood's parents are from Grenada, but her modern-trained body never felt right performing Afro-Caribbean vocabulary, nor did she easily accept the coquetry implicit in the dances.
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One lift of the steady eyelid, one quiet glint of that terrible cold gray eye, that poniarded her every tissue of complexity, inconsistency, and coquetry, had been enough.
The Wife of Chino
