Madonna Caterina laughed immoderately to see their great mercy-pleading eyes coquettingwith the greatly-withheld blade.
He had noted, with secret gratification, her first coquetting with the pretty toils.
Moreover, Diane boldly entered the lists against the queen's project bycoquetting with the Guises and giving her daughter to the Duc d'Aumale.
But during this time when the queen was, it is said, coquetting with the Vidame de Chartres, the king, after the birth of her last child, had virtually abandoned her.
Thou art overbold, Jeanne, smiling up in a young man's face and puckering thy brows like some maid coquetting for a lover.
But there was much decorous coquetting on both sides, for even at that period many a young fellow was caught by a pair of smiling eyes.
Amy followed him to the hall-door, apparently to shut it after him, but she passed out with him, after a moment’s coquetting with the handle.
Butterflies of many hues, their gorgeous wings glaring in the bright light, fluttered swiftly along, coquetting as it were with the flowers, and enjoying in their full vigour the sunny brightness of their short lives.
The Ming court knew all about Koryŭ’s coquetting with the Mongols and sent a severe letter warning her that the consequences of this would be disastrous.
The coquetting with the Mongols brought forth fruit when early in 1378 they invested the king of Koryŭ and he adopted the Mongol name of the year.
From the day I first met you I felt that you were coquetting with me, coquetting mysteriously, obscurely, coquetting as only you can without showing it to others.
Not one of them suspected that it was aimed at the heart of the king; and that Marie Antoinette, whom they were deriding as a coquette, was coquetting with her husband, and dressing for him alone.
I suspect you are amused to see such an old fellow as I coquetting with the fine arts; but I assure you that my flute is one of my trustiest friends.
Instead of honestly and zealously seconding the policy of Elizabeth, and so deserving her confidence and support, which would have been of the utmost value to him, he tried to levy blackmail on her bycoquetting with Spain and the Catholics.
With him, as with other suitors, she went on coquetting when she had perfectly made up her mind that nothing was to come of it.
Carmen is coquetting with every man present, and the fun becomes a riot, so that the innkeeper has to interfere.
She continues to sing, meanwhile coquetting with him.
At first you were just a hard student, and then the loveliest young girl, only caring to have a good time, and coquetting more bewitchingly than any girl I ever saw.
Phillis, who but a month ago Was married to the Tunbridge beau, I saw coquetting t'other night In public with that odious knight!
It doesn't mean anything at all--her coquetting with that bird of passage.
Coquetting with four suitors was not only inconsistent; it was unbecoming.
By this time Colfax was cured of his late coquetting with Douglas, and he replied: "The suggestions you make have occurred to me.
Gradually, from talk of individuals and speculations of newspapers, the intrigue proceeded to a coquetting between rival conventions.
The representatives of foreign governments were already secretly coquetting for the favor of a free port and an advantageous cotton-market.
And for three hours she had been thinking of herself, playing at melodrama, and mouthing heroic quotations, coquetting on dry land with a tempest while the man she had loved was actually in its grasp on the sea!
The maid thought it rather strange, although she was well accustomed to her mistress's various oddities; for, though she knew Lady Anne to be very eccentric, yet she had never before suspected her of coquetting with any one.
Now, Mr. Winkworth, you must be one of the party; and I promise you I will flirt all day with you, except when I am coquetting a little with Colonel Middleton or Charles Marston.
He was generally suspected of coquetting with them to secure their patronage of the Young Ireland cause, and that at heart he despised the popular subserviency to them.
Frenchwoman is, when, instead of coquetting with a caprice, she insists upon conceiving a grande passion.
The great meal--that vulgar first love of the appetite--was over, and one now only flattered it into coquetting with another.
Now it occurred to him, for the first time, that if it were not a mere bluff on Leila's part, this sudden coquetting with the question of divorce might indicate an ulterior object.
It began to fascinate him to watch the delicacy of her strategy, the coquetting with her purpose; her naive advance to the very edges of it, the airy retreat, the innocent detour, the elaborate and circuitous return.
But the economical, hygienic and domestic reasons were all against the journey; so a few days ago I ceased coquetting with the idea of it, and have finally given it up.
A mancoquetting with too many countries is as bad as a bigamist, and loses his soul altogether.
Some enemy wrote to Napoleon, and roused his jealousy to a very high degree, by representing Josephine as forgetting her husband, immersed in pleasure, and coquetting with all the world.
They are almost constantly with me; and they can tell you, ungrateful as you are, whether I have been coquetting with every body.
More than the five o'clock tea affectation was to come of the new coquetting with English fashions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coquetting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
