With Turkey's leaders coquetting as the new best bedfellows of Iran and embracing the terrorists of Hamas, the Wilson Center has just bestowed its "Public Service" award on Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Martial, who believed that she still loved him, assumed the coquetting graces in which a man is so ready to lull himself in the presence of the woman he loves. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Silently and patiently did the doctor bear all this, and all the handings of negus, and watching for glasses, and darting for biscuits, and coquetting, that ensued; but, a few seconds after the stranger had disappeared to lead Mrs. Budger to her carriage, he darted swiftly from the room with every particle of his hitherto – bottled – up indignation effervescing, from all parts of his countenance, in a perspiration of passion. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Henceforward it would seem that, so far from being prejudiced against Catholicism, Burton was always coquetting with it; and if he took any religion seriously at all, he may be said to have taken this one seriously. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Suppose you become a popular physicist (popularity seems cooling towards art and coquetting with science now-a-days), and a better chance offers, and one who would make you a newer and brighter wife than I am comes in your way. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And as we know very well that a lady who is skilled in dancing or singing never can perfect herself without a deal of study in private, and that the song or the minuet which is performed with so much graceful ease in the assembly-room has not been acquired without vast labour and perseverance in private; so it is with the dear creatures who are skilled in coquetting. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The nurses have been bustling to and fro, and bringing, first, slices of cake; then dinner; then tea with huge family jugs of milk; and the little people have been playing hide-and-seek round the deck, coquetting with the other children, and making friends of every soul on board. ❋ Unknown (2004)
See how the girl is coquetting with the strange gallants! ❋ Unknown (2004)
This was no ordinary person coquetting with his pretty daughter. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Maslova still thought and continued to persuade herself that she had never forgiven him, and hated him, as she told him at their second interview, but in reality she loved him again, and loved him so that she did all he wished her to do; left off drinking, smoking, coquetting, and entered the hospital because she knew he wished it. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The fancy became rooted in my own mind more stubbornly than ever, that she was only coquetting to goad him, and that, at heart, she coveted everyone of his words and looks. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Trees like tall, languid ladies with feather fans coquetting airily with the ugly roof of the monastery. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Mungo Park, after a brief coldness and coquetting with it, hotly adopted to the fullest extent the wild scheme. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I had just dismissed him to his workshop, and had just begun coquetting with my coins, when Louis suddenly made his appearance with a card in his hand. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The men swaggered, the women minced their steps, rolled their eyes, and were eternally arranging, and coquetting with their head-veils. ❋ Unknown (2003)
After some coquetting about “etiquette,” whether you are to visit them, or they are to call upon you, they make up their minds to see you, and to judge with their eyes whether you are to be trusted or not; whilst you, on your side, set out with the determination that they shall at once cross the Rubicon, — in less classical phrase, swallow your drug. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Countess Katerina Ivanovna noticed that Mariette was coquetting with her nephew, and this amused her. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Then, leaning back in his chair, he reflected a few minutes in silence, complacently smiling to himself, and while I was concocting some cutting speech wherewith to check his gratification, he rose, and passing over to where Annabella Wilmot sat vehemently coquetting with Lord Lowborough, seated himself on the sofa beside her, and attached himself to her for the rest of the evening. ❋ Unknown (2002)
