It was of no use to coquet with thoughts of suicide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

Miss Grandison, I hope, cannot think of coquet-ting?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference

“Ah! none of that! none of that — I cannot coquet with you!” she cried.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woodlanders] Reference

It is this that leads the one party to coquet with Egypt and the other with Assyria, vii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

Elaine slid her lava-lava down a little lower on one shoulder and waved back coquet-tishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Friends Like These...]

His great friend and confidant, the painter and diarist Joseph Farington, bluntly called him "a male coquet".    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review] Reference

Ephie began to take an interest in what Dove was saying, to smile at him and coquet with him, and the more openly, the nearer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maurice Guest] Reference

Charles saw her coquet as she went at Jim's Pitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Right Royal] Reference

For a coxcomb there is no mercy -- for a coquet no pardon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelham — Complete] Reference

"She is showing a disposition to coquet with Richard," rejoined Sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss or Mrs?] Reference

I love to coquet, but the moment a man comes too close, I feel hunted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes] Reference

Canadian ladies take a little, which makes them so coquet and agreable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Emily Montague] Reference

"Ah! none of that! none of that -- I cannot coquet with you!" she cried.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woodlanders] Reference

But with their intention she did not coquet; as to that she was in earnest.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Chair on the Boulevard] Reference

Without any need of self-restraint, no wish to coquet ever entered her head.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference

I now think you are more than half a coquet, and I like you for your roguery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liber Amoris, or, the New Pygmalion] Reference

He played some, but to pass away the time rather than to coquet with fortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man on the Box] Reference

Altogether the appearance is coquet, sportsmanlike, and decidedly appropriate.    From Wordnik.com.  [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference

For the latter purpose she would coquet first with one party, then with the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of the Wolf; a romance] Reference

He is the veriest coquet in nature, for, after all, I am convinced he loves Emily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Emily Montague] Reference

She laugh and make the mock at him, and play coquet with the others before his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger Ingleton, Minor] Reference

In the last century there lived a man who, in his young days, was a desperate coquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Story and Song from North America] Reference

The coquet is sadly tempted to gather some of the flowers for her own use, but dares not.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise on the Art of Dancing] Reference

You will say, I am a coquet even in friendship; and I am not quite sure you are not in the right.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Emily Montague] Reference

In her indescribable childish way she would coquet with a tax-collector or a rag-and-bone man or the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel] Reference

Open your arms, miss, if you please; remember you are no coquet now: how pretty this looks! don't it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12] Reference

When he had moved away to the depth of the gallery, the priestess began to coquet with the Harran man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference

Did she now coquet, prattle, and display her power; tempted as she was by such a public scene of triumph?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference

But it hurt me so much that I did not realize it was necessary to coquet with him in order to retain his affection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales] Reference

His Letters shew him to have lived in a continual fever of petty vanity, and to have been a finished literary coquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution] Reference

It is as natural for a young girl to coquet as it is for a canary to peck at its seed or trim its bill on a bit of fishbone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel] Reference

I have another objection to girls, which is, that they will eternally fancy every man they converse with has designs; a coquet and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Emily Montague] Reference

Parrots abound in carnival hues, and buff-colored doves, with soft white rings of feathers about their necks, coquet lovingly together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands] Reference

Loch Lomond comes upon you by degrees as you advance, unfolding and then withdrawing its conscious beauties like an accomplished coquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liber Amoris, or, the New Pygmalion] Reference