Philippina was looking her very best that afternoon, attired in a coquettish costume, half peignoir, half tea-gown, especially designed for the reception of such casual visitors.
With all the good-humoured coarseness of her original nature, she now possessed in addition all the airs and graces, all the coquettish affectations, all the noisy self-assertion of the theatrical utility.
He was thrown into confusion for the first moment; but Varvara Pavlovna behaved with such coquettish respectfulness to him, that his ears began to tingle, and gossip, slander, and civility dropped like honey from his lips.
She'll never marry," continued this garrulous little person, with the coquettish pince-nez perched on her not too Grecian nose.
One of the girls kept laughing affectedly, and saying 'Now Professor,' in a coquettish tone, and the other pronounced her German with an accent that must have made it hard for him to keep sober.
Conceal from him neither your inclinations nor your inexperience, your childish joys or your childish fears; but be as coquettish with all these as you are of the features of your face, of your fine, black eyes and your long, fair hair.
Her gait no longer had that coquettish ease which I had noticed, but clearly indicated the agitation due to some strong emotion.
She pushes forward her glass with a coquettish movement.
I like to watch the tiny damsels decked out like reliquaries, and already affecting coquettish and lackadaisical ways.
She had, moreover, a way of speaking of her own, a childish and coquettish way of modulating the ends of her sentences and turning her eyes toward her husband, as if to seek for his approbation.
Altogether Valerie had found the description sufficiently attractive to induce her to pay Rallywood that coquettish little visit in the ante-room of the Hôtel du Chancelier.
Au revoir,' she added to Elmur, with a coquettishring in her voice.
Despite all her pretence of brightness and coquettish attire, there was not one of them who had not been startled when their first greeting was over.
She had never overstepped the actual bounds of propriety herself, but she had been coquettish and fond of admiration, and had delighted to hold her own against the world.
When the hot July days came in, the ring of pearls and amethyst would stay on the small worn hand no longer, and so was taken off and hung with the little bunch of coquettish "charms" upon her chain.
There had been a new acquisition in the shape of a dress to don, and one or two coquettish aids to appearance, which were also novelties.
She exercised to its utmost her inventive genius, and lay awake at night to devise simple but coquettish feminine snares of attire to delight and bewilder him in the future.
She was somewhat under the middle height, slender, supple, rosy-lipped, and coquettish to distraction.
She was exacting; but her exactions were so coquettish and attractive, that one would not have wished her more reasonable.
While remaining his faithful and respectful servant, she was thus becoming a woman in whom the coquettish instincts of her sex were artlessly developing themselves.
Were not her dresses the great enemy that he had to contend against, more than the woman herself, jealous guardians, coquettish and costly barriers, that kept him from his mistress?
The strange and brilliant glances that they emitted seemed to tell of dreams of morphine, or perhaps, more simply, of the coquettish artifice of belladonna.
That is only her coquettish feeling of spite," he said to himself, "a woman's irritation from whose salon some valuable trinket has been spirited away.
It was a coquettish little place, full of bric-à-brac and ornamented with works of art.
A more elegant, enticing, coquettish pair of stocks never gladdened the eye of a justice of the peace.
Here a pert, coquettishpair of ties were having as little in common as possible with the stout, somewhat clumsy walking-boots next them.
A waistcoat of rich tissue of silver, and a pretty little cap of velvet completed his coquettish and charming costume of majo.
The coquettish yellow silk nest her red-head had fixed up for her near the "Linden" was empty.
And raising her glass to touch his, she tried to thank him for his having come around with a little coquettish shamefaced smile.
Still, one finds in them the thundering power of the Scherzi, the half satirical, half coquettish elegance of the Mazurkas, and the southern, luxuriously fragrant breath of the Nocturnes.
Their animated rhythms, insouciant airs and brilliant, coquettish atmosphere, the true atmosphere of the ballroom, seem to smile at Ehlert's poetic exaggeration.
He had coaxing, coquettish ways, playful ways that cost him nothing when in good spirits.
Her smooth, glossy, and abundant hair, arranged in braids, was neatly fastened in under a coquettish lace cap with pretty blue ribbons.
She shakes her pretty, fair head at Gower in a delightfully coquettish fashion.
Gazing down in coquettish silence at a rose in her hand, Linda has vanished through the gateway of the park, on the arm of her cousin, in the golden light of the setting sun.
He had borne this with goodness and patience; then Linda had suddenly appeared, with her dazzling beauty, her picturesque elegance, her coquettish heartlessness.
She wore a red rose in her black hair, while a partially drooping eyelid gave a piquant, coquettish expression to her face.
With a coquettish little laugh and toss of the head, she tossed her fan to Captain Forest who caught it and held it in his hand as he would a flower.
She carried her head high and with a coquettish air which plainly showed she had by no means relinquished her hold upon life.
There were innumerable villas of every style and class,--some spacious and splendid enough for royal residences; others coquettish little chalets, where lovers might pass the honeymoon.
The coquettish wight, Perrin, inquired: Could love need other roses than her own?
Only may she there never transform her lively, tremulous, gay, and yet sensitive, heart into a coquettish one!
For out of doors before his windows stood lovely and almost coquettish Nature hung round with Paris's apples, and in the midst of all a fair promenader who deserved the whole of them.
Then a gay coquettish glance, as quick youth warms the veins, and some humorous thought occurs, a tickle for the baby, and a feint of cold-shouldering me.
Asenath could hear nothing, but she needed to hear nothing to know how the young fellow's eyes drank in the coquettish picture.
