coquetry literary

Sometimes, indeed, the women would exercise a little coquetry, but they went no further.

Now that he was as other men, she displayed coquetry.

He gave her a level look as though estimating how much coquetry was behind the question.

It stirred him as no smile or coquetry ever could.

I believe all that talk of hating him was coquetry.

She looked at him with a compelling and horrible coquetry.

She began to sway a little, there was coquetry in all her movements.

"My dear, do you feel yourself in full beauty and coquetry?"

There was no trace of coquetry in the action, although she watched me and smiled.

It was a piece of coquetry that he didn't understand, not a concern for their security.

She was innocent in the art of coquetry and guile.

Looking back, I am still amazed to what lengths deliberate coquetry can go.

She just looked at me squarely, without coyness or coquetry.

With no coquetry or other emotional games, sometimes the occasion called for that kind of celebration.

Tim recognized the coquetry behind his wife's cousin's actions now.

You must, before all things, be perfect master of the difficult art of coquetry.

The fair girl, with a laugh of ribald coquetry, turned to answer him.

The coquetry faded from her eyes; she had the tremulous mouth of a child.

She stepped away from it and turned to face him, standing erect, without embarrassment or coquetry.

Her smile was the kind of coquetry at which she was so skilled.

The trouble in her eyes moved Kirk as her coquetry had failed to do.

She was always well dressed, but this day her attire bordered on coquetry.

Her tone had no particular coquetry, she was only trying to match his courtliness.

A stripling clown was not your mother's idea of a new husband, so she kept me at a distance with her coquetry for a time.

All the playfulness, coquetry, were wiped off it as with a sponge.