How he loathed that hot, lurid, murky atmosphere of flirtation and passion and French sentimentality in which he had been living!
The sphere around her was cool and bright and wholesome, as different from the hot atmosphere of passion and sentiment and flirtation to which he had been accustomed, as a New-England summer morning from a sultry night in the tropics.
You will never make me believe in a protracted flirtation between a gentleman and lady, where at least half the blame does not lie on his lordship's side.
He still carries on his old chronic flirtation with Mary; and she is as ready to be flirted with as ever.
But, after all, it might be only a little flirtation between her and Cecil.
VII THE DAY THAT NEVER WAS Of all the places in the world where a flirtation can germinate, blossom, and bear fruit overnight, an ocean-liner is the most propitious.
The girl's refusal to take his cue and ignore the very mild flirtation that had occurred on the car-platform placed him in a situation at once awkward and embarrassing.
There the stones are slippery, and an absorbing flirtation should be resisted, as the tide often intrudes most unexpectedly, and in dangerous haste.
Arriving from Coronado Beach, I was reminded of the Frenchman who married a quiet little home body after a desperate flirtationwith a brilliant society queen full of tyrannical whims and capricious demands.
As she read this second epistle she had told herself, with something like rage, that it was not her fault that what she had intended should be a harmless flirtation had caused such havoc.
I don't mind her flirtationwith Godfrey--that's much more reasonable!
The flirtation had developed, by the time they reached Sydney, into a serious affair, and had been the determining cause why he had not written even to George.
I hope you are not going to carry on a flirtationwith that overdressed creature," she blazed.
They like pretty girls for those places--if they're not giddy and don't waste time flirting but use flirtation to sell goods.
It was a young man from one of these houses--a flirtation lasting about a year.
Ninety-nine women out of a hundred would have wearied of me as I wearied of them; seventy-five of that number would have promptly avenged themselves by active and obtrusive flirtation with other men.
Can't he have a little undisturbed flirtation with his best girl?
And I," said Edna, "was thinking it was a pity for you to pursue even a mild flirtation with her.
What interest can you have with a little flirtationof mine, which took place before you were born, I cannot imagine, Mr Newland.
Northrop knew all about Tony's flirtation with Lucy Davidson, but it also knew a good deal more about that lady than Tony did, and exculpated him.
Bernard Appleby never tried even the mildest flirtation with me, and he'd have been sorry if he had.
And all because the American custom of flirtation was unknown to these matter-of-fact Germans, so deadly in earnest about everything.
She would seem so far below par that, as Gard had seen, even flirtation scarcely exists in Deutschland.
The finest thing that could happen to Basil would be a very decided flirtation with a beautiful, worldly woman, who would laugh him out of these fantastic ideas and make a modern man of him.
A violent flirtation will do him good, and cure him of his absurd ideas.
Roland's cold, almost distant politeness to the young ladies, was marked enough to appear intentional; nor could all the little by-play of flirtation with others excite in him the slightest evidence of displeasure.
They are in the F's; they have got out of Flirtation and into Friendship.
In general there is no choice between flirtation and monastic isolation.
She feared that instead of being a flirtation of which she might not disapprove, this passion might develop into a Werther-like tragedy and lead her son to commit some imprudence.
I The Oblonsky family was plunged into miserable confusion, for the wife, through detecting a flirtation between her husband and the French governess, declared she would no longer live with him.
Mr. Allen, who would have been very anxious had Zell been receiving the attentions of some penniless young clerk or artist, laughed at her "flirtation with old Van Dam" as an eminently safe proceeding.
The thought of marrying Mr. Fox made her flesh creep, but a brief flirtationwas another affair.
Walter did not care to hear that the girl who had distinguished himself and been distinguished by him should make herself remarkable in a flirtation with another man.
He kept up a very fond and regular flirtation in Paris with a French favourite, a charming and exceedingly beautiful person, who had been seduced by the bejewelled opulence of the King of Kings.
There was something serious in his nature that said no to a flirtation of any kind with a lovely girl.
It could only be a flirtation at best and, it could only end in bitterness and hatred and tragedy in the end.
