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

• “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

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

  A Daughter of Eve

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

  Two Poets

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

  Two Poets

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “Mademoiselle, who had never been exercised in the coquetries of her sex, and was now arrived at those years when the vanity of youth ought to yield to discretion, considered the proposal as a philosopher, and after due deliberation candidly owned she had no objection to the match.”

  The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

• “This silly conceit intoxicated me so much, that I was guilty of a thousand ridiculous coquetries; and I dare say, how favourable soever the thoughts of the company might be at my first appearance, they were soon changed by my absurd behaviour into pity or contempt.”

  The Adventures of Roderick Random

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