coquettes

Besides cheerful young ladies are frequently confounded with coquettes, which is very unfair.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

Clara said: "Here is the difference I see; I see it; I am certain of it: women who are called coquettes make their conquests not of the best of men; but men who are Egoists have good women for their victims; women on whose devoted constancy they feed; they drink it like blood.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

Clara said: "Here is the difference I see; I see it; I am certain of it: women who are called coquettes make their conquests not of the best of men; but men who are Egoists have good women for their victims; women on whose devoted constancy they feed; they drink it like blood.

The Egoist George Meredith 1868

She taught me: 'La tour, prends garde,' 'Marlbrough' and 'Les bas noirs, les bas noirs ...' and also 'Nous n'irons plus au bois,' 'Valsez, fillettes, valsez coquettes, marionnettes du gai Paris.'

'The Life of Irene Nemirovsky' 2010

They are beautiful, commercial coquettes; and they dictate the way we perceive the male form.

Thin is in: in search of the perfect male body 2010

I began to understand that in the way Madam Ma sought her out, Rose did not object, and even seemed to enjoy doing battle with the woman: two coquettes vying for attention, with Rose usually having the last word.

Beard 2010

She showed the features of Catherine; but an unusual degree of petulant impatience inflamed them, when, from some awkwardness in her management of the muffler, she was unable again to adjust it with that dexterity which was a principal accomplishment of the coquettes of the time.

The Abbot 2008

Lisa Yuskavage artist known for painting nude women as coquettes Last year I read Francine Prose's "Reading Like a Writer" and among all the books she mentions, one of the books I'm eager to read is "War and Peace."

Dog-Eared Days 2008

All purities and all candors meet in that celestial and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of coquettes, possesses the magic power of causing the sudden blossoming, in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with perfume and with poison, which is called love.

Les Miserables 2008

If the satires on man and woman written by Boileau were not pleasantries, they would sin in the essential point of supposing all men fools and all women coquettes.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007