How To Use Coquette In A Sentence

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  • The youth had turned from waif to coquette in the space of one night. EVERVILLE
  • “I HAVE been insincere — if you will have the word — I mean I HAVE coquetted, and do NOT love him!” The Woodlanders
  • I have been called a coquette, my prince; it is time to bind myself in marriage bonds, and show the world that love can make an honest woman of me. Frederick the Great and His Family
  • Her smooth, pink-and-white cheeks and unwinking eyes contrasted vividly with his seamed yellowness and blinking grin; for a long time he coquetted at her, and played peep-bo, without disturbing her gravity, making humorous side comments to the on-lookers meanwhile. Hawthorne and His Circle
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  • Not a kitten, not a coquette, but she could, it seemed, when the mood was on her, be a temptress of a different sort. THE PERFECT LOVER
  • Mary, who had always been a little coquette and didn't change her ways despite the fact that she was to be married, talked gaily with all the earnest men surrounding her, although they'd been warned against pursuing anything.
  • Thus, my dear, coquettes of your fascinating sex cover their persons with figgery, fantastically arranged, and call their masquerading, modesty. The Second Funeral of Napoleon
  • When dressed as women, they painted their faces, chirruped with their lips, and coquetted.
  • Nice person, actually a "coquette" is a flirt and a person's dress or weight really doesn't affect a person's staus as a coquette. In which I impress the Americans by ordering animal parts they would prefer I didn’t translate
  • It was that frustration, he said, that explained why he had “coquetted a little with Great Britain” to stir U.S. jealousy and enhance the prospect of annexation—which now, he added, was at hand. A Country of Vast Designs
  • She smiled upon him from the maternal height of the coquette who is a year or two older than the man she coquets with. Despair's Last Journey
  • 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
  • One of the dances was an old-fashioned cotillon, and one of the figures, the "coquette," brought every one, in turn, before me. Stories by American Authors, Volume 1
  • On the contrary, our current courting practices - if they can be called that - yield an increasing number of those aging coquettes, as well as scores of unsettled bachelors.
  • The term coquette, which we have bor - rowed from the French, is our modern name for her who, in the Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
  • He was reckless to the uttermost stretch of recklessness, all serene and quiet though his pococurantism and his daily manner were; and while subdued to the undeviating monotone and languor of his peculiar set in all his temper and habits, the natural dare-devil in him took out its inborn instincts in a wildly careless and gamester-like imprudence with that most touchy tempered and inconsistent of all coquettes -- Fortune. Under Two Flags
  • From this day you must learn to embrace all manner of millinery or else relinquish your "coquette" sobriquet. How about that Prada turban?
  • The youth had turned from waif to coquette in the space of one night. EVERVILLE
  • She, too, could have played croquet, and have coquetted with The Small House at Allington
  • Thereupon Narayana called his bewitching Maya (illusive power) to his aid, and assuming the form of an enticing female, coquetted with the Danavas. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva
  • Playing the coquette, she raised her eyebrows and placed a finger to her lips. THE MANANA MAN
  • Van Buren coquetted with the Adams forces for a year, and the old-line Republicans, strong in the Jeffersonian faith, brought themselves to the support of the Tenneseean with difficulty; but eventually both northern and southern wings of the Crawford contingent alined themselves against the Administration. The Reign of Andrew Jackson
  • Playing the coquette, she raised her eyebrows and placed a finger to her lips. THE MANANA MAN
  • It was something people noticed about her, and she wasn't above playing the little coquette. AFTERMATH
  • It was something people noticed about her, and she wasn't above playing the little coquette. AFTERMATH
  • The word coquette does not come up to the mark; that of downright flirt seems to me to answer the purpose pretty well, and I can make use of it to tell you honestly what she is. Monsieur De Pourceaugnac
  • In that hour Tasmin coquetted as she had never coquetted before. The Berrybender Narratives
  • Although he was received by her with the most distinguished civility, and even an intimacy of friendship, all his solicitations could never extort from her an acknowledgment of love: on the contrary, being of a gay disposition, she sometimes coquetted with other admirers, that his attention thus whetted might never abate, and that he might see she had other resources in case he should flag in his affection. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
  • And she was the worst kind of coquette -- teasing him, arousing him, putting her mouth on him, sucking him off, saying, "That's not sex," then going away. Beard
  • I could see many a horned coquette, like a full-rigged ship, strutting as if set in a frame with a fair store of pedlery about her, and pearls in her ears to the value of a good-sized farm: some were singing so as to be praised for their voices, some dancing, to show their figures; others coloring, to improve their complexion, others having been The Visions of the Sleeping Bard
  • In spite of an interminable row of contrabassi, with which a conductor usually coquettes at musical festivals, his performance was so expressionless and inane that I turned away in disgust as from an alarming and repulsive problem, and desisted from all attempts to explain the impassable gulf which, as I again perceived, yawned between my own vivid and imaginative conception of this work and the only living presentations of it which I had ever heard. My Life — Volume 1
  • Playing the coquette, she raised her eyebrows and placed a finger to her lips. THE MANANA MAN
  • Not a kitten, not a coquette, but she could, it seemed, when the mood was on her, be a temptress of a different sort. THE PERFECT LOVER
  • And she's one of the biggest coquettes in town.
  • I started by adding a sheer undershirt - this happens to be from Coquette and came up when I searched my inventory for "fishnet". Fashion World of SL
  • Thereupon Narayana called his bewitching Maya (illusive power) to his aid, and assuming the form of an enticing female, coquetted with the The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
  • A bird seldom sings when watched, and Nature is no coquette, and will not ogle and attitudinize when stared at. Our Friend John Burroughs
  • She, too, delivers a dual personality: the innocent young college girl Doc feels obligated to protect; and the little coquette, taunting Turk with promises she has no intention of fulfilling.
  • The fanzine thing is almost done - it will be out on Saturday for sure, it's called "coquette" ... do you know what that means? Withkerth Diary Entry
  • It seems to be unquestionable that Beauvais was a suitor of Marie's; that she coquetted with him; and that he was ambitious of being thought to enjoy her fullest intimacy and confidence. The Mystery of Marie Roget
  • And I agree: I think La Coquette's fresh style would definitely add a little unique "peps" to the French Glamour! Glamour Shot
  • The coquette Lady Betty Modish is led to accept the suit of the honourable Lord Morelove (contrasted with the boastful and immoral Lord Foppington) by a plot to excite her jealousy, followed by reproaches from Sir Charles.
  • Boris, in his working clothes of white canvas, scraped the traces of clay and red modeling wax from his handsome hands, and coquetted over his shoulder with the Cupid.
  • It was something people noticed about her, and she wasn't above playing the little coquette. AFTERMATH
  • The party had 'coquetted' with Afrikaner nationalism in 1920-22 and helped it into power in 1924, 'if only to accelerate the disillusionment of Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 17
  • I suppose, my bibliolater, you have not yet finished your Hebrew or Samaritan translation of _coquette_. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
  • Coquette tells me that there are many things in the US that have not identicalness with California, but when I imagine the US, I am always conceiving beaches--like Americans with the Tour Eiffel, no? So Jeanne, What's TV Like Over There?
  • The thrasher, or red thrush, sneaks and skulks like a culprit, hiding in the densest alders; the catbird is a coquette and a flirt, as well as a sort of female Paul Pry; and the chewink shows his inhospitality by espying your movements like a detective. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs
  • Kim and Coquette spent their days curled around each other in sunny spots like Siamese wreaths, and Mom’s Persian Ming Ming spent hers down at the water hole catching barble—plump catfish that tasted of mud. Rainbow’s End
  • When the people saw her, they all made love to her and she promised and sware and listened and coquetted and passed from market to market, till she saw Ali the Cairene coming, when she went up to him and rubbed her shoulder against him. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Ah, what a world entire was this lost little hamlet of Paradise, where merrymakers trod on the mourners 'heels, where the scream of the biniou drowned the floating note of the passing bell, where Misery drew the curtains of her bed and lay sleepless, listening to Gayety dancing breathless to the patter of a coquette's wooden shoes! The Maids of Paradise
  • I have heard ladies call her coquette, not understanding that she shone softly upon all who entered the lists because, with the rarest intuition, she foresaw that they must go away broken men and already sympathised with their dear wounds. The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens
  • The poor man, caught senseless by the little coquette, dropped his mallet and his cheeks began to redden with embarrassment.
  • Of course, the nurses I worked with were not exactly coquettes sending out pheromones of enticement.
  • She saw and inwardly rejoiced at the humility of his looks; but, far from rewarding it with one approving glance, she industriously avoided this ocular intercourse, and rather coquetted with a young gentleman that ogled her from the opposite box. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
  • The wife is an old coquette, that is always hankering after the diversions of the town; the husband a morose rustick, that frowns and frets at the name of it. The Coverley Papers
  • The youth had turned from waif to coquette in the space of one night. EVERVILLE
  • Back in France, he bought a villa in Marnes-la-Coquette, a suburban village, where he grew fond of tending to the grounds, reading and playing with his chihuahua.
  • I have just returned from 10 days in Panama where my favorite birds were White-tipped sicklebill, Rufous-crested coquette, and Brown-billed scythebill.
  • I coquetted a whole minute with my napkin, before I attempted the soup, and I helped myself to the potatory food with a slow dignity that must have perfectly won the heart of the solemn waiter. Pelham — Volume 03
  • Oh, there you are out, indeed, cousin Wright! she's more of what they call a prude than a coquette. Tales and Novels — Volume 02
  • Yes, their coquettery and evasions can exasperate men looking for an unequivocal answer to riddles of life and love.
  • Not a kitten, not a coquette, but she could, it seemed, when the mood was on her, be a temptress of a different sort. THE PERFECT LOVER
  • He is too severe on the harmless and even beneficent race of coquettes, who brighten life so much, who so rapidly “draw up with the new pleugh lad,” and who do so very little harm when all is said. Old Mortality
  • It was long and low -- in reality, the old dancing-hall, for the manor had been built after the pattern of its first owner's English home; and in the deep, recessed windows, facing the lake, many a bepatched and powdered little belle of Colonial days had coquetted across her fan with her bravely-clad partner. The S. W. F. Club
  • The only time seduction doesn't involve warmth and feeling, says Greene, is when it is performed by a coquette.

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