Marie Antoinette beheld this transformation with rapture; and her little innocent coquetries with the princes and noblemen of the court had but one aim--that of heightening the effect of her charms upon her royal husband.
The Hasseites shrugged their shoulders, and even Gluck's warmest adherents felt undecided what to say of this severe Doric music, which disdained all the coquetries of art, and rejected all superfluous embellishment.
No innocent coquetries now, no spirit, no jests; for the present at least she had done with them, too.
She knew well that it was only from his vexation at her conduct that Le Gardeur had pretended to renew some long intermitted coquetries with the fair Cecile.
But on the guileless Lucien thesecoquetries were thrown away; he would have advanced of his own accord.
And if so, to-night she will be vexed, for all the ladies will try all sorts of coquetries on you.
At last it occurred to her to have a photograph taken for him of Baby, who with her childish coquetries had gradually become dearer and dearer to her father's heart.
He had no time to tell himself that Linda's happy coquetries proved a very flippant conception of the serious situation--he himself had forgotten the gravity of the situation.
He protested with all his might, and he was right, against the puerility of these imitations for the ear.
When they shook hands with the French consul they could contain themselves no longer, but jumped for joy and cried "Vive La France!
She drops her piano and her paint-brush as she drops her coquetries and flirtations, when the fish is landed and she can throw the bait away.
On great occasions Victurnien would sit down, assume a melancholy, pensive expression, and submit with little coquetries of voice and gesture to be questioned.
She was as yet experimenting with her own heart, and the Minister's heart was a necessary part of the trial, while his sublime confidence in her little coquetries amused her.
They believe a woman to be pure and true if she but knows how to temper her coquetries with a pretence of reserve.
The little rivalries and coquetries of everyday life occupied her as fully as if her lot contained no troublous outlook.
Her coquetries became the more persistent because she felt within herself a certain weakness.
Her erect and imposing carriage might pass for one of those coquetries of old age which prove that pride is a necessary passion of life.
Then she used her power and her coquetries to wheedle out of him one concession after another, including a promise by the King to return unopened any letters Madame de Mailly might send to him.
Irene, Louise, whatever may be your name or your mask, you shall not long remain Madame de Villiers; a speedy widowhood will enable you to begin your coquetries again.
Trained in the art of the winsome, attractive coquetries of the round, brown doughnut and all its kindred.
The Emperor of Austria was too much occupied with the future of his daughter and grandson, and the King of Prussia was too grave and severe, to find any pleasure in the coquetries of women.
But, while she was naive and innocent at heart, she required of her husband that these trifling outside coquetries should not disquiet him nor render him distrustful, and that he should repose the most unshaken confidence in her.
Placed directly opposite the box in which Faringhea, Djalma, and Rose Pompon had just taken their seats, Lady Morinval soon perceived the arrival of these two personages, and particularly the eccentric coquetries of Rose-Pompon.
As an affectionate and devoted and dull spinster my heart was often soft to her; but her coquetries would have made an angel groan.
For--perhaps this was partly the effect of the unrelenting heat--her insipid coquetries had begun to exasperate me more and more.
All her flatteries, her wiles, the littlecoquetries that might attract ordinary men, would not be noticed by him, or Jonathan either.
I like a woman's pretty coquetries as well as any man, but this silence--" It still continued.
What was a trifle like that to daunt a ripe woman who knew coquetries with escholtzia-yellow bathing-wraps?
It was a far cry from that first cocktail in the Piccadilly to this hat, this revelation of arms, these conscious coquetries with bathing-wraps and auction with Alec Aird.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coquetries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
