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Deeply each beyond other, pluming, stooping, glancing, glistening, weaving softest pillow lace, coying to the wind and water, when their fleeting image danced, or by which their beauty moved, — God has made no lovelier thing; and only He takes heed of them.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

He knows her woman's heart, -- coying it a little, holding back her treasure till she sees if her worshiper be faithful, to pour it out all unstinted at the last, when May's perfect bridal day shall usher in the full and fruitful marriage blessing of the year.

The Chief End of Man George Spring Merriam 1878

She threw from her, at once, as vain and wicked and false, all idea of coying her love.

The Eustace Diamonds 1873

She threw from her, at once, as vain and wicked and false, all idea of coying her love.

The Eustace Diamonds Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1872

Deeply each beyond other, pluming, stooping, glancing, glistening, weaving softest pillow lace, coying to the wind and water, when their fleeting image danced, or by which their beauty moved, -- God has made no lovelier thing; and only He takes heed of them.

Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

She threw from her, at once, as vain and wicked and false, all idea of coying her love.

The Eustace Diamonds Anthony Trollope 1848

Here, pleasure, to which I am no enemy, when it is properly seasoned, and of a good composition, is surely of the coying kind.

Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e Montague, Lady Mary W 1724

But I coying -- [stroking or caressing] -- with her made her leave crying, and sent for butter and parsley, and friends presently one with another, and I up, vexed at my heart to think what I had done, for she was forced to lay a poultice or something to her eye all day, and is black, and the people of the house observed it.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

But I coying -- [stroking or caressing] -- with her made her leave crying, and sent for butter and parsley, and friends presently one with another, and I up, vexed at my heart to think what I had done, for she was forced to lay a poultice or something to her eye all day, and is black, and the people of the house observed it.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

But this case isn’t about seeing an idea and coying it from a 30,000 foot level.

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