How To Use Coy In A Sentence

The Liberal Democrats are also being coy and modest. Times, Sunday Times
McCoy had fully embraced the idea of belated fatherhood his declarations to the contrary notwithstanding. The Better Man
This magnificent bit of luck, the finding of the calisaya, awakened in the susceptible bosom of Mr. Marcoy an ardent desire to explore for himself the site of its discovery. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
From plain backgrounds at the start, they moved on to intricate landscapes - landscapes now completely disassociated from the Impressionism that first reigned at Coyoacan. Printmaking - From Revolution To Establishment
Aside from the sanctity of my goats and all I am happy to have coyotes, catamounts, bears and other preditors in the woods, they are hallmarks of a heathy ecosystem with all of its components in place. The Coyote--to Shoot or Not to Shoot. That is the Question.

Personally, I begin waterfowl hunting, and me and my buddies put on a coyote hunt in January. With the big game season winding down in most areas. What is everyone doing to keep sharp and break the monotony of winter?
There are 36 species of Canidae, including dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals and foxes.
A rumor is floating about that the businessman is getting ready to waste millions again in a futile attempt to become governor, but that's relevant only to the coyotes who will take his money.
I was told last night that this storyboarded ending was only ever used to decoy the studio away from the real ending, which is the one they shot.
Decoys that can confuse the homing sensor in the interceptor are the Achilles' heel of this system.
This year they are being a little more coy about buying. Times, Sunday Times
Other rodents might also be suited to domestication; for instance, the potentially tamable, clean-living species of South American fields and woodlands - agouti, capybara, hutia, mare, coypu, pace, and vizcacha. Chapter 3
The "Carnal!!!" stencil is ubiquitous in Mexico City's Coyoacan district. The "Carnal!!!" stencil is ubiquitous in Mexico City's Coyoacan district. © Anthony Wright, 2009
Canada Goose Inc. Canada Goose's Kensington parka in steel color, insulated with 625-fill-power white duck down and featuring a two-way adjustable, fleece-lined down hood with a removable coyote-fur ruff. Coolhunter
His second memoir can thus be read as a rather coy critique of his first.
Acoy macasalanan nagcocõ pesal aco sa atin panginoon di os macagagaua sa lahat at cai sancta Maria uirgen totoo at cai sanct Miguel archangel, cai sanct Juan baptista sa san ctos apostoles cai sanct Pedro, at cai sanct Pablo at sa lahat na sanctos at sa iyo padre, ang naccasala aco sa panidim, sa pag uica at sa paggaua aco nga ce, sala aco, i, mei casalanan, aco, Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593.
The western carvers produced decoys solely for the purpose of luring waterfowl.
Listen long enough and you can hear the high-pitched, enthusiastic yip yowl of coyotes; the long, keening howl of the wolves.
With a blink, his eyes adjusted and decided it was either a wild dog or a wolf or a coyote.
On a winter's night in the deserts of northern Mexico one might expect to hear the chilling cries of coyotes or solitary wolf baying at the moon.
Voles are an important source of food for many predators, including snakes, hawks, owls, coyotes, weasels, foxes, mink and badgers.
The takeaway here: If you set your decoys right and hide well, waterfowling is a close-range sport. Why You Miss Ducks (And Other Insights From Our Waterfowl Guide Survey)
The soldiers were decoyed to a border region while the Viet Cong mounted a major offensive in the urban areas.
Coyote has done an excellent service in detailing the reality of this necessity and you a service in reminding of it. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » This Looks Very Good
However, the B.V.D. company coyly kept the origin of its trademark obscure - very few consumers knew just what the 'BVD' stood for, and once other underwear manufacturers entered the fray and began cutting into BVD's market share, more and more people were using 'BVD' as a euphemism for 'underwear' without even realizing that the term had originated as a brand name. New Urban Legends
[Footnote: The simple Sayer is also for "assayer," either of metals or of meat and drink -- "essayeur, an essayer; one that tasts, or takes an essay; and particularly, an officer in the mint, who touches every kind of new Coyne before it be delivered out" (Cotgrave). The Romance of Names
This is their idea of a holiday and they've paid $1, 800 U.S. to scour these rocks for scat from raccoons, pygmy skunks, ocelots, coyotes and jaguars.
But in that typically unabashed and upfront Californian way - though she was actually born in Phoenix, Arizona - she refuses to be coy about the band's bacchanalian excesses.
The claims of mutations refer to natural phenomena; the triangles are a normal pattern variant in the Bolson tortoise populations and the pads of nopal coyotillo turn a shade of violet during a dry spell. The Zone Of Silence of nothern Mexico - scientific marvel or just fiction?
Typically cited are triangular shapes on the tortoises 'shells, the occasional purple coloring of nopal coyotillo (Opuntia violacea), and the large size of human individuals in the Zone. The Zone Of Silence of nothern Mexico - scientific marvel or just fiction?
I heard Rene on "ello-ello" this lunchtime (sad, I know!) using the word "didicoy". Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
McCoy convinces Cody to bring her along as backup, and the rescue begins.
Hollywood said he'would be interested' in being involved in the programme but remained coy about whether there were any plans for him to take a part. The Sun
It was far too coy, with its prettified animals peering out from their bolt-holes in the paint. SACRAMENT
Something in my memories hints that there were rumors that the Hellhound was mixing his purebreds with wolves or coyotes.
Elmer and Mr Nordberg haul in the decoys and Bob and Cully climb out.
From this oft-repeated prophecy Collins was known to every stockman in three States as the Coyote Prophet, the title a jeering one at first, then bestowed with increasing respect as men saw many of his prophecies fulfilled. The Yellow Horde
Gaisberg summed it up in his memoirs: ‘Caruso was the decoy that brought other hesitating celebrities to our recording studios.’
Infrared decoy which is used to disturb enemy infrared tracking system and infrared hide star shell which improves stadia of infrared equipment are paid great attention by army.
While the record's disposition may be a departure for these New Yorkers, their coyness in discussing it is not.
And neither the feces of bobcats nor the urine of foxes, coyotes, and bobcats discouraged voles from attacking seedlings.
All Comments from peter wrote 1 year 2 weeks ago real lookin decoy Love Connection: The Turkey and the Decoy
Cale let out a yowl of pain that the coyotes in Arizona could hear and envy.
And lots of animals, from coyotes to common pigeons, mate for life.
McCoy had doubtless not only slipped him a Mickey Finn, but had arranged for his replacement on the bridge as well. Ishmael
The marital tragi-comedy stars the director's actress wife Emmanuelle Seigner as a free-spirited temptress wed to an invalid Peter Coyote, engaged in seductive cruise-ship shenanigans with Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott-Thomas. Start September With Superior Cinema
And everything after the fact so foreknown, the game itself sometimes already in the past while he still described it; often the afternoon papers were on the streets with the final box score while he described for his listeners the seventh-inning stretch or reported a struggle in the box seats over the recovery of a foul ball -- his foreknowledge hindsight, a coy tool of suspense: DiMaggio swings. Style in Fiction
Descend through the forest where various tracks and paths take you to the B970 at Coylumbridge, two miles from Aviemore.
Party hats, champagne at midnight and a whole lot of hoopla accompany the country pleasure of the Coyote Band.
Feral dogs and coydogs are also more likely to kill in a manner similar to coyotes, possibly as a result of experience in killing for food.
Almost every grower had little option but to trap bullfinches (using cage-traps complete with a live decoy) during the winter and spring.
But they certainly did invite people that know something about Venezuela Jennifer McCoy for one and even pro Chavez folks such as Edgardo Lander. Blog visibility for Venezuela News
Mr. Darcy frowned while he normally enjoyed Miss Elizabeth's coyness, at time like these it could be most vexing.
I've groaned through leaders' speeches tight with tearjerking vacuities, faux-human anecdotage and coy phrasemaking. Times, Sunday Times
The wide range of works includes quilts, rugs, needlework, paintings, works on paper, weather vanes, whirligigs, decoys, and painted furniture.
It is essentially a small cyclopedia Of ready rules and references packed full from coyer to cover of condensed, meaty information and precepts on almost every leading subject connected with country life. Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
Not a single fact in that plagiarised thesis was untrue, a former Campbell acolyte averred in coy defense of his one-time master.
To get past the border guards, immigrants from Mexico hire smugglers - called coyotes - to guide them through crossing points.
Folklore gets its due in intriguing descriptions of the Navajo Indians’ ‘coyote people,’ and even Dracula makes a guest appearance as one of the most popular shape-shifters ever.
He puts his head down and runs the decoy lines. Times, Sunday Times
First, we snowshoed up and around Wuksachi Lodge, following coyote tracks across the meadows.
I ate my first bloody rare steak and you shot the coyote that still hangs in the family room next to one of your other first trophies, the thick horns of a mule deer.
This works well with decoy shy ducks, because sometimes the best decoy is none at all. The newspaper said there is a nice increase in ducks this year. What tricks do you use to fool mallards? I use a a jerk cord.
Taro is sometimes confused with malanga, yautia, and cocoyam, tubers of a number of New World tropical species in the genus Xanthosoma, which are also arums protected by oxalate crystals. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Abasio merely grunted as he went to unhitch Big Blue, leaving it to Olly to mollify Coyote. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
After crossing the border they were abandoned by coyotes or polleros, the smugglers who transported them into the US.
Chun was coy only about his ambition for the presidency, and then only to preserve the formalities.
Teh hankee, teh 2 pence coyne fur teh merge end sea fone cawl, a littlo teenee sowing kit, wif teh obligatoree safetee pins Pete ignored his hoomins obsession with Twilight to a point… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
These include the capybara, the agouti, the coypu, the cavy and the chinchilla.
The most important root and tuber crops are cassava, sweet potato, yams, taro (cocoyam) and tannia (new cocoyam). Chapter 3
You act as a decoy and we'll sneak out the back.
they saw a coyote in the dark but it escaped
Forest crops, such as plantain, cassava, cocoyam, and tropical yams, predominate in the south.
The Swordsmen's techno knob fiddling adds an effective acid house wash to the song's coy lyrical interplay.
This Hatfield and McCoy made-for-media feud is ideally suited for reality TV. Jonathan Littman: Lance Armstrong Witnesses on Hot Seat
Yes | No | Report from Northern Coyote wrote 1 year 1 week ago sheepshead, chubs, carp, burbot & bowfin and of course the local favorite, suckers Talking Trash
When threatened, the octopus can squirt out ink as a decoy to distract its predator and allowing the octopus to escape.
The JVP leadership has been remarkably coy about providing an answer.
But even those who decide to play coy won't have long to wait.
Nancy Gangi captured this rare and excellent pic of a coydog hunting in a field near Floral City, Florida.
In 1936 Coyle saw another cherished cause become law, when Congress imposed a tax on undistributed corporate profits.
Airdrie found the net again first, a poacher's special by Owen Coyle after Martin Hardie's curling shot came back off the post.
The coyness about the price is, we presume, because the actual selling price will be dependent on the kinds of discount deals on offer.
true-to-life duck decoys
(This results in a sort of bonnet-mobcap thing, which looks a bit coy, but is necessary.) Toast:
LeSean McCoy, since McCoy tweeted that Umenyiora was "overrated" and "soft," and Umenyiora dubbed the tailback " Lady Gaga. NYDN Rss
"Because it's, um, embarrassing, " I said, trying to act so coy.
Adrian Eastwood is a little coy about the idea that bookies know better than polls or punters.
It was late when we arrived at Cocoyotla, but we did not go to rest without visiting the beautiful chapel, which we had omitted to do on our last visit; it is very rich in gilding and ornaments, very large and in good taste. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
Coyote can be hunted at night during the period specified in the furbearers seasons and bag limits chart.
With a blink, his eyes adjusted and decided it was either a wild dog or a wolf or a coyote.
“Kid McCoy was supposed to be an irreclaimable tomboy, but in this crucial moment the eternal feminine came triumphantly to the fore.” Dear Pen Pal
I swear, I could skin him, protect myself from all decoys, prevent us from meeting, even in dreams, within the same 100 yards, but no worries, I don't need protection; you follow the law and stay gone, as maybe you feared last year's blizzards and that's what kept us inside ... all that unrestraint, all that To Be Continued -- now you're just another Where Are They Now? Ben Evans: The Poetry of Michael Tyrell
Poised along the stream are a pair of coyote sculptures cut from sheet metal and allowed to develop a rusty patina.
A Courtesan is played by an Asian girl hardly older than three, whose comehither gesture and coy posture, rouged lips and beribboned hair, faithfully mimic the conventions of Chinese painting.
He continued across the border with the help of coyotes.
Volunteers are planning to make decoys and place them on the island to attract roseate terns in time for next year's nesting season.
Cerise smiles that annoying smile, doing the coy squirm.
I would make it less coy about its radical tradition Inky fingers!
She smiled and kissed the Coyote; he'd been fun, but now he was an exhausted hank of fur, panting hard in the back of the booth.
He declines nosepaint in every form; an 'this yere abstinence, the same bein' yoonique in Wolfville, together with Coyote conductin 'himse'f as the p'litest an' best-mannered gent to be met with in all of Wolfville Nights
Darkness Falls is not worth the price of admission, and that stupid lisping scrote should've been used for a decoy.
The scientists say similar decoys can be tailor-made for other insect pests closely related to the apple maggot fly.
You have two options: a water keel, which features a hollow keel designed to fill with water to add stability; or a weighted keel, which is usually filled with sand to make the decoy stable as well as self-righting. Make Swimming Duck Decoys By Adding A Keel
These include the capybara, the agouti, the coypu, the cavy and the chinchilla.
This Coyote came to call and stoped at 90 yds one shot with my 223 put him down. Field & Stream
As the government's operations grew more sophisticated, so did those of the smugglers, or coyotes.
March 28, 2007 at 11:06 PM bravo to chris coyne, given Pearls remarks about gmu & europe my guess is that pearl is a europe based austrian. 10 Austrian Vices and How to Avoid Them - The Austrian Economists
The occurrence of a coydog would be an extremely rare event in New York today.
It could be a number of things: a wolf-dog cross; a very unusual hybrid of a gray wolf and a coyote; a coydog, a coyote-dog cross; or a wolf from Minnesota or Wisconsin. Archive 2006-12-01
The mayor remains coy for now. Times, Sunday Times
like a wild young colt, very inquisitive but very coy and not to be easily cajoled
What the murrain is the matter now — Arc yoir not aQiam*d, wife, to dcficoy things wilfully thus — when thou knoweft how chargeable necefiaries arc Begone Jeremy, and mind the fliop. A Collection of the Most Esteemed Farces and Entertainments, Performed on ...
She paused to examine the mummy, carefully protected by glass: it was the real McCoy, the label identifying it as belonging to the actual queen herself, on loan from the Cairo Museum in Egypt. Dance Of Death
Other mammals in the area are the vizcachas (Lagostomus maximus), the cuis pampeano (Cavia aperea), the nutria (Myocastur coypus), and the opossum (Didelphis albiventris). Semi-arid Pampas
Anastasio, and so unsufferable, that after a long time of fruitlesse service, requited still with nothing but coy disdaine; desperate resolutions entred into his brain, and often he was minded to kill himselfe. The Decameron
And he measured her in a careless way, and knew, bold now, that she would begin to retreat, coyly and delicately, as he pursued, ever ready to reverse the game should he turn fainthearted. Chapter 6
(Soundbite of music) Mr. COYNE: We sort of thought of the idea of more like, well, we can just kind of overdub a bunch of stuff, and no one's really going to know whether we're playing or not, and if we're lucky, we can make it sound like we're much better than we really are. Wayne Coyne and The Flaming Lips 'At War'
She remains coy about how they met. Times, Sunday Times
The coyotes charge $5000 to bring somebody here from Honduras or Guatemala.
England's really slick play this autumn has been based on tying up defenders with decoy runners and then getting outside the opposition with some crisp passing. Times, Sunday Times
His remarks were typical of the government to attribute the death toll on the border to the coyotes.
And at Louis Vuitton, designer Marc Jacobs showed revealing sultan pants and long skirts in black guipure lace coyly woven with the house's initials. The Changing Face of Lace
My vote for the most untranslatable word would go to nyakaa, a Bengali word that could mean coy, or teasing, or bashful, or suggests fake niceness or phoney innocence.
Adult turtles have relatively few natural predators, although sharks and saltwater crocodiles are known to consume adults, and nesting females are preyed upon by coyotes and other canids.
January 24, 2008 at 3:35 pm oh noes, mebbee the flip side ob the enbironmental coyne: Redneck cat carrier - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
And I started a smuggling unit to go after coyotes here.
Gummo Trotsky, possibly inspired by last week's story of his unaccustomed silence, has now turned his coyness into 34 comments.
Patricia was nonplussed by Coyne's behaviour, but she continued to be placatory. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
Car thefts have dropped in Basildon after police deployed decoy motors which catch crooks in the way a Venus fly trap plant catches insects.
Such coyness raises my suspicions a little.
To further thwart engagement, a LACM could employ relatively simple countermeasures such as chaff and decoys.
McCoy is cruising to his seventh consecutive jockey's championship.
Stage fright masks itself as a domineering style, or as coyness, egoism, or pride.
Cllr Gerry Coyle told the Western People that a number of Belmullet natives have returned home to build a new house or restore the old homestead.
The humble frail man, graphic artist, character coy, gentle nature, very ordinary at first glance.
Upon his part Gascoyne was full of the lore of the waiting-room and the antechamber, and Myles, who in all his life had never known a lady, young or old, excepting his mother, was never tired of lying silently listening to Gascoyne's chatter of the gay doings of the castle gentle-life, in which he had taken part so often in the merry days of his pagehood. Men of Iron
Most successful basketball plays involve only two or three players in any particular play with the remaining players maneuvering or decoying opponents away from the intended point of attack.
The defensive aids suite could include a radar warner, missile launch and approach warner, and chaff and flare decoy dispensers.
Bravely and unselfconsciously, this generous actress looks middle-aged, yet with that gangly tomboyish essence that allows her to play young without resorting to cosmetic artifice or girly-girl coyness.
But both clubs yesterday remained coy about whether they were still interested. The Sun
The Law was perfectly adequate before the Hunting Act 2005 to prosecute didicoy poachers coursing their lurchers on private land and in this regard the new Act is quite otiose. Archive 2007-07-01
Has the comical and enviable habit of making most defenders look not unlike Wile E Coyote in pursuit of the roadrunner when he puts his foot down.
GADWALL Population numbers are up, so toss three to five gadwall decoys — or mallard hens — in a cluster near the shore side of your decoy spread to convince "gray ducks" to pitch in. Tips, Tactics, and Gear for Beaver Pond Ducks
After 20 minutes, one Neanderthal close to us screamed out: ‘Coyle, you are scum.’
Spock’s perfect concentration was broken; he glanced over at McCoy, his expression unconvincingly calm, clearly expecting the worst. Demons
They had caught a glimpse of the landing stage and set down there, perhaps beaconed in by the torch left in the hut, which meant they no longer hunted by scope-or they would have known that for a decoy. Dark Piper
a politician coy about his intentions
Only an officer (OC B Coy this time), would think that Westphalian tripehound was an actual breed when he asked me what sort of dog my little mongrel was. Army Rumour Service
They are hunted by coyotes, badgers, foxes, owls, and wolverines.
Nothing sets up a capsize like a hunter, jacket pockets full of shotgun shells, leaning over the edge of a low-freeboard duck boat laying out decoys with his dog eagerly leaning next to him.
These white hulks, so Coyote told them, came shuddering down the arroyo when spring floods sent a muddy fury rioting between the banks. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
With our unrefined ways and backwoods Malayali attire, we would sit coyly, yet smugly, as the juke-box sang at our command.
Participants allow the recolonization of the gray wolf on their private lands and will not use lethal controls on coyotes, wolves and other predators.
The remaining ships, including light cruisers, destroyers, a scattering of gunboats, and a large number of both naval and army auxiliaries were left as decoys for the Task Force 58 planes.
There is no fear of such politically-correct coyness with Mr Strache.
It was common for coy damsels and staid matrons to wend their way to Lizzie's cot about twilight, to have their fortunes spaed. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
Ted smiled coyly as if the word guess was a modest expression of fact from the mouth of the only authority. The Riverman
Castleford desperately need Coyne to lift their fortunes after three opening defeats.
Coyote of the "Road Runner" cartoons, who runs off the cliff and finds himself suspended in air before dropping to the valley floor.
✒ When Ofcom refused to sin-bin The X Factor last week while signalling concern over Rihanna and Christina Aguilera's saucy numbers, it also coyly criticised an unspecified "paper" for coverage that it claimed used photos "significantly more graphic and close-up" than the TV images in its attacks on Simon Cowell's sexed-up final. Media Monkey's Diary
It has been reported that Arsenal entered a bid of around £6 million for Cahill, an offer which Bolton manager Owen Coyle had labelled "derisory. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Steve Coyle , CEO , the AFL - CIO Housing Investment Trust , Former Boston Redevelopment Authority.
In fables, Uncle Coyote is constantly outwitted by the jokester and trickster Uncle Rabbit.
He began making bird decoys when he was thirteen in Birds Landing, California.
Their words and drawings were created by the same husband-and-wife team, and they were both inspired by where the couple lives: a steep, windy, densely foliaged neighborhood across from a dark forest of ivy-covered trees filled with coyotes and owls. A Rockin' Forest Fairy Tale
Daniel paid a coyote who took him to the hills near Mexicali with 20 others who waited for the right time to cross.
Forward allowance, or lead (pronounced 'leed'), became secondary to good gun fit, camouflage, decoy placement and close range. Bakersfield.com Latest news
True, she's as coy and feminine as she wants to be.
"I came to smoke and talk with my cousin," said Slim Coyote, "so give me a smoke while I'm waiting. He won't mind, he's my cousin."
For now, he remains coy. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly the coyness was gone from her voice, replaced by genuine wistfulness.
The North was to send 16 animals, including Asiatic black bears, lynx, coyotes, African ponies and Siberian weasels, zoo officials said.
Coyotes, foxes, bears, mountain lions, and bobcats all prey on livestock.
The prince scowled and took on a dark expression that Merlin had not seen before on the cordial coyote.
Evcn the coyote chained to a stake near the gas pumps to entertain the tourists understands the meaning of injustice.
The term arrived in English from Provençal via French, and means "conceited" or "coy Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed
In W. Africa, where both taro and malanga are staple foods, next in importance only to cassava and yams, they are known as ‘old’ and ‘new cocoyam’.
As coyotes make themselves at home in suburbia, incidences of coyotes biting people increase. Uncategorized Blog Posts
The Lieutenant and 80 soldiers, much against orders, pursued the attackers and were wiped out when they were decoyed into an ambush of 1,000 waiting warriors.
McCoy looked thoughtful, then said, "What's a wanion? Doctor’s Orders
The Peter-Dale affair is spicy enough, but Melanie's on-again, off-again fling with a younger reporter is rather coyly handled, and the glamorous president seems doomed to celibacy. Review of "Eighteen Acres," a political thriller by Nicolle Wallace
Cacoyannis launched his international film career with Stella 1955, which won him a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film and launched the film career of Melina Mercouri as femme fatale and symbol of resistance to the patriarchal code. Katerina Zacharia: Remembering Michael Cacoyannis
Gyeonggi-do government that Hwang's team coyotes cells after removal of nuclear transplantation in the dog's egg, the complete clone of coyotes.
The coyote slowly ascended the mountain, sweat glistening on his brow, his thoughts lost in the events of the previous day.
She yawned dramatically and cast me a coy look through hooded eyes.
He decoyed the ducks to an area right in front of the blind.
The coyote shambles, crow-hops, keeps his head low, and without fur, his now visible pizzle is a sad red protuberance, his hind legs the backward image of a bandy-legged grandfather, stripped. The Best American Poetry 2010
Smiling coyly, she slowly brought out from her backpack a small bottle of wine.
Washington sent another party out with excessively detailed orders not to be “decoyed into any snares of the enemy.” George Washington’s First War
Does anyone know why Hillary is appearing on FOX News trying to play the "coy" female? Rasmussen: Post-Kennedy Endorsement, Obama Only Down By Six In Massachusetts
The schadenfreuder in me wants to watch Rudy Giuiliani's campaign fall apart like one of Wyle E. Coyote's RoadRunner chasin 'machines, so Rudy's just left there all alone and looking stupid for a second before he crashes to the ground. Novak To McCain: Compete In Iowa, Or Lose
Tony Blair is coyly vacillating on the issue of standing for European Council president.
People flash coy looks at one another, hoping that they won't be asked to make the first move and speak about what they make of it all.
Adults, who were shy as toddlers, had stronger brain activity in a part of the brain associated with coyness.
He just crouches on the corner at lunchtime and occasionally bays, like a wolf or coyote.
What tends to happen instead is the kind of coy allusiveness coupled with total transparency of motive you meet, for example, in The Black Star, where our heroes most improbably find a light aircraft in which to escape the overrun city: A Great Disturbance in the Plot « Gerry Canavan
The question of sexual passion in late life and what a much older man has to offer a younger woman, apart from the status that traditionally makes him more attractive, is treated very coyly here.
She's coy enough to curdle butter, looking up at him from under her lashes.
He thought perhaps it was a coypu, at present a pest in these parts. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)

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