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coquetry
1. coquetry sparkling stars invite me to fly
2. And it was a second when stars were shining coquetry,
3. Bart took to her immediately, countering inquisitive coquetry with gallant attention and an apparently bottomless pit of good humour
4. Carried away by the euphoria of her coquetry, man begins to woo woman with hope
5. Maybe she’s coy, but of what avail is that? Well, she shows a little more interest in me than before, but where is the hint of her intent to grant? Is she a flirt for all that? How am I to know? Oh, women’s god-damn coyness makes it difficult for men to probe their minds; it could be either a shield for their modesty or a shroud of their coquetry
6. Its beauty captures the mind and when it prances around it makes one’s heart beat at its unabashed coquetry; you have a lot of experience and knowledge about horses so please would you come and use your expertise to examine it before I buy it… for you’re the only person I trust
7. Did her meticulous attire and makeup hint at something more than feminine coquetry?
8. She was not the last word in coquetry but she was a presentable young lady
9. said madame, drawing a breath and nodding her head with a stern kind of coquetry, "I'll use it!"
10. Annie Moffat's foolish lessons in coquetry came into her mind, and the love of power, which sleeps in the bosoms of the best of little women, woke up all of a sudden and took possession of her
11. Philippa was incapable of coquetry
12. ‘I am afraid that you must have been dreadfully bored,’ he said, promptly catching the ball of coquetry she had flung him
13. If simpering, coquetry or empty-headedness would attract him, she would gladly play the flirt and be more empty-headed than even Cathleen day! Calvert
14. squarely, all coquetry and airs gone as her spirit rushed out to grapple that which she Well, she had come to it at last
15. He gave her a level look as though estimating how much coquetry was behind the question
16. "I should be disposed to refer coquetry to another source," said Mr
17. Hearing the very words she had just used to her cousin now addressed to herself, she turned upon him a look of love, her first look of loving womanhood,—a glance in which there is nearly as much of coquetry as of inmost depth
18. Ah Cruel Irony! Bellars despis’d Love that was freely given, but grew mad as a rabid Dog for Love denied, niggardly Love, Love that was not e’en Love but only Coquetry
19. Ne’er have I seen you stoop to Coquetry e’en when Coquetry had serv’d you better than your own Native Honesty
20. How wise I had been to fix my Heart upon Lancelot’s Lofty Friendship rather than Bellars’ Scurvy Lust! Here was Love conjoin’d with High Ideals, Love which did not seek to bribe with Jewels nor play the gaudy Games of Coquetry, but Love which sought to join two Souls in pure Service to the Great Goal of Liberty! How could I burn such a Letter upon the Instant? I must read and re-read it until I knew its Contents by Heart! And so I tuckt it in my Bosom, promising myself that I should burn it ere long—but only after I had savour’d its stirring Text, not merely one more Time but sev’ral
21. The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety
22. ‘What a darling our Papa is!’ she cried, kissing him, coquetry that had returned to her with
23. Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds and the other flatters, and the beautiful daughters of the people have both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side
24. Zephine and Dahlia, whom chance had made beautiful in such a way that they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, never left each other, more from an instinct of coquetry than from friendship, and clinging to each other, they assumed English poses; the first keepsakes had just made their appearance, melancholy was dawning for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the tender sex began to droop dolefully
25. The three others, less timid, as we have already said, wore low-necked dresses without disguise, which in summer, beneath flower-adorned hats, are very graceful and enticing; but by the side of these audacious outfits, blond Fantine's canezou, with its transparencies, its indiscretion, and its reticence, concealing and displaying at one and the same time, seemed an alluring godsend of decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the prize for coquetry to this canezou, in the contest for the prize of modesty
26. Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with an old broken comb, and it flowed about her like floss silk, she experienced a moment of happy coquetry
27. She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry
28. His coquetry consisted in drinking with the carters
29. detract from the coquetry of arrangement
30. The short blanket that covered her shoulders was draped and held to one side with a kind of coquetry
31. No coquetry was there, I vouch—
32. "I am afraid that you must have been dreadfully bored," he said, promptly catching the ball of coquetry she had flung him
33. I expected duplicity and coarse coquetry and wa^ wretched
34. Why risk it all at the caprice of coquetry? You must see that
35. Oh, at first perhaps it began innocently, with a jest, coquetry, with amorous play, perhaps indeed with a germ, but that germ of falsity made its way into their hearts and pleased them
36. Blanche who was not only as deeply involved as the other two, but also expectant of becoming Madame General and an important legatee—would not lightly surrender the position, but would use her every resource of coquetry upon the old lady, in order to afford a contrast to the impetuous Polina, who was difficult to understand, and lacked the art of pleasing
37. I wasn't vexed, but I sat there, thinking what relation am I to them? Of course, from a countess one doesn't expect any but spiritual qualities; for the domestic ones she's got plenty of footmen; and also a little worldly coquetry, so as to be able to entertain foreign travellers
38. This trait and a complete absence of coquetry was particularly surprising and therefore attractive to Maslova
39. She had no ringlets on her forehead now, and her hair was covered with the kerchief; in the way it was arranged, as well as in her dress and her manners, there was no trace of coquetry left
40. This entire absence of coquetry surprised and completely captivated Maslova
41. She became thin, sun-burnt and apparently older; wrinkles appeared on her temples and around her mouth; she no longer curled her hair on her forehead, but wore a 'kerchief on her head, and neither in her dress, coiffure, nor in her conduct were there any signs of her former coquetry
42. Hélène was so lovely that not only did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the contrary she even appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty
43. The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any struggle, but with naïve and lighthearted gaiety
44. “What a darling our Papa is!” she cried, kissing him, and she again looked at Pierre with the unconscious coquetry that had returned to her with her better spirits
45. Coquetry was in every movement of her little blond head