Feigning indifference, she plays the coquette 's cheapest trick. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The term coquette, which we have bor - rowed from the French, is our modern name for her who, in the. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:] Reference
Hear how wisely she discusses the "coquette" question. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
From this day you must learn to embrace all manner of millinery or else relinquish your "coquette" sobriquet. From Wordnik.com. [How about that Prada turban?] Reference
One of the dances was an old-fashioned cotillon, and one of the figures, the "coquette," brought every one, in turn, before me. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2] Reference
"coquette" to our Shelley, who had been making sheep's eyes at Johnny. From Wordnik.com. [Laddie; a true blue story] Reference
I fluttered my eyelashes at him, playing the coquette. From Wordnik.com. [The Bodice-Ripper Free School Zone Act] Reference
She flashed at them the arch looks of a faded coquette. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Whether she was a coquette or not, Reine had bewitched him. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Prince had represented to her as a coquette, and perhaps worse. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Was she a coquette, or simply a fashionable lady, or a devotee?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"I have not been a coquette," said Jacqueline, with indignation. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"A born coquette!" he muttered with his hat pulled over his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
M. de Talbrun, she became herself -- that is to say, a born coquette. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Do you think I am a coquette?" she asked, sitting down by him again. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
She was a good girl, but a coquette to her finger-tips, and the bait took. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
"I have many things to say to you yet before ---- For one, I am not a coquette?". From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
I should know perfectly well that her smile was the untrue manoeuvre of a coquette. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
The coquette Philine loves Wilhelm and has completely enthralled him by her arts and graces. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Was he dealing with a simple, innocent girl, or a village coquette, accustomed to be courted?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Think of all you said to me yesterday and this morning; and now, now you called me a coquette!. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Reine was no coquette, and such a course of action would be repugnant to her frank, open nature. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Tennyson speaks of one form of this, in addressing the vain coquette as the possible future mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
Lola, the coquette however cannot bear to know, that her former sweet-heart should love another woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Without simplicity, woman is a vixen, a coquette, a hypocrite; society a masquerade, and pleasure a phantom. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
Sometimes we hear it figuratively said of a domestic coquette, that she carries all her property on her back. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Decidedly, he did not understand women, since he could not even tell a virtuous girl from a frivolous coquette!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
To me, 15 seems like an awfully young age to commit to that sort of promise, no less to admit to being a coquette. From Wordnik.com. [Miley's Future: Sweet or Spicy?] Reference
"Do you see the coquette?" exclaimed Father Gerard, bursting into laughter without raising his eyes from his work. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The coquette in her played with him even now in the midst of the bitter pain she must have known she was inflicting. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
I do not know whether you are aware that I have always been a coquette as regards my neck; it is my only bit of vanity. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
With all her small-town limitations she was bright as a pin, and as sharp; fine of instinct and, withal, coy as a coquette. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
A feeling of shame had made her dread this meeting, which the most hardened coquette could never witness without embarrassment. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And let her lower her eyebrows, and give up the airs of a coquette, and assume the appearance of those that are deeply smitten. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
She was, therefore, doomed to send Claudet away with the impression that he had been jilted by a heartless and unprincipled coquette. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But this change of behavior produced on Jacqueline only the same effect that the caprices of a coquette produce upon a very young admirer. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Their deportment is rather grave and reserved; and, on the whole, they have much more of the prude than the coquette in their composition. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
His despair was indeed great; he fancied he had been laughed at by a coquette, while he thought he had been the suitor of an innocent girl. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
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