coquetries

Here he found himself almost equally helpless; for what male wit is adequate to the thousand little coquetries practised in such arrangements? how can masculine eyes judge of the degree of demi-jour which is to be admitted into a decorated apartment, or discriminate where the broad light should be suffered to fall on a tolerable picture, where it should be excluded, lest the stiff daub of a periwigged grandsire should become too rigidly prominent?

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

With filth you have painted sorrow on your face, you put your cherry foot through the iron bars, your naked foot, another of your prison coquetries.

Joaquin Pasos greenintegerblog 2008

And if so, to-night she will be vexed, for all the ladies will try all sorts of coquetries on you.

Two Poets 2007

But on the guileless Lucien these coquetries were thrown away; he would have advanced of his own accord.

Two Poets 2007

But on the guileless Lucien these coquetries were thrown away; he would have advanced of his own accord.

Two Poets 2007

How could he desert a great devotion, for the coquetries of the faubourg Saint – Germain?

A Daughter of Eve 2007

And if so, to-night she will be vexed, for all the ladies will try all sorts of coquetries on you.

Two Poets 2007

I knew to what tortures the odious little flirt of a Nora would put me with her eternal coquetries with the officers, and refused for a long time to be one of the party to the ball.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

To a man of the world looking on, who has seen the men and morals of many cities, it was curious, almost pathetic, to watch that poor little innocent creature fresh and smiling, attired in bright colours and a thousand gewgaws, simpering in the midst of these darkling people — practising her little arts and coquetries, with such a court round about her.

The Newcomes 2006

What a number of pretty coquetries do the ladies perform, and into what pretty attitudes do they take care to fall!

Little Travels and Roadside Sketches 2004