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    1. But, the Catholics did not give up to coquette with


    2. somewhat worried when she would play the supremely confident coquette with me


    3. The gaoler standing at his side, and the other gaolers moving about, who would have been well enough as to appearance in the ordinary exercise of their functions, looked so extravagantly coarse contrasted with sorrowing mothers and blooming daughters who were there--with the apparitions of the coquette, the young beauty, and the mature woman delicately bred--that the inversion of all experience and likelihood which the scene of shadows presented, was heightened to its utmost


    4. I rather think his appearance there was distasteful to Catherine: she was not artful, never played the coquette, and had evidently an objection to her two friends meeting at all; for when Heathcliff expressed contempt of Linton in his presence, she could not half coincide, as she did in his absence; and when Linton evinced disgust and antipathy to Heathcliff, she dared not treat his sentiments with indifference, as if depreciation of her playmate were of scarcely any consequence to her


    5. Gazing upon those features with a world of tenderness, Ah, Monsieur, he said, had you but beheld her as I did with these eyes at that affecting instant with her dainty tucker and her new coquette cap (a gift for her feastday as she told me prettily) in such an artless disorder, of so melting a tenderness, 'pon my conscience, even you, Monsieur, had been impelled by generous nature to deliver yourself wholly into the hands of such an enemy or to quit the field for ever


    6. Melly and I have often said how loyal you were to his memory when everyone else said you were just a heartless coquette


    7. woman—something of the coquette


    8. If you were not such a charming simpleton, what a temptation this would be to play the wicked coquette, and let you suppose that somebody besides you has made love to me


    9. Herself a consummate coquette, she could not have maneuvered better on meeting a man she wished to


    10. I rather think his appearance there was distasteful to Catherine; she was not artful, never played the coquette, and had evidently an objection to her two friends meeting at all; for when Heathcliff expressed contempt of Linton in his presence, she could not half coincide, as she did in his absence; and when Linton evinced disgust and antipathy to Heathcliff, she dared not treat his sentiments with indifference, as if depreciation of her playmate were of scarcely any consequence to her

    11. She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance


    12. Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the coquette of the abyss, the Celimene of the ocean, rise in the infinite, calming all here below? The ocean is a rough Alcestis


    13. " Ah, you coquette ! Come, Liza, tell me honestly, have you been laughing at me for the last month ? "


    14. Yulia Mihailovna, turning green with anger, greeted this tirade at once with a burst of prolonged, ringing laughter, going off into peals such as one hears at the French theatre when a Parisian actress, imported for a fee of a hundred thousand to play a coquette, laughs in her husband's face for daring to be jealous of her


    15. Herself a consummate coquette, she could not have maneuvered better on meeting a man she wished to attract


    1. She laughed and joked and almost but not quite coquetted with a one- At supper Melanie surprised them all by forcing herself out of her timidity and being eyed soldier who gladly repaid her efforts with extravagant gallantries


    2. She coquetted and played her owners against one another


    3. But when you see that an author prescribes emotion at what is not touching, but only laughable or disgusting, and when you see, moreover, that the author is fully assured that he has captivated you, a painfully tormenting feeling results, similar to what one would feel if an old, deformed woman put on a ball-dress, and smilingly coquetted before you, confident of your approbation


    1. All purities and all candors meet in that celestial and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of coquettes, possesses the magic power of causing the sudden blossoming, in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with perfume and with poison, which is called love


    2. On the other hand, nourished by me, he will naturally impart to me all the vital juices of his body; it is the same as with some accomplished coquettes who embed themselves and their whole persons for the night in raw steak, and then, after their morning bath, are fresh, supple, buxom and fascinating


    1. How short was the time for fun, for pretty clothes, for dancing, for coquetting! Only a few, too few years! Then you married and wore dull-colored dresses and had babies that ruined your waist line and


    2. You've been coquetting with her for twenty years and have trained her to the most ridiculous habits


    3. Countess Katerina Ivanovna noticed that Mariette was coquetting with her nephew, and this amused her


    4. 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


    5. "If she only knew who I was, she would never receive me, and yet I taunted her with coquetting with that gentleman


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    Synonyms for "coquette"

    coquette flirt minx prickteaser tease vamp vamper butterfly chat up coquet dally mash philander romance hussy trifler

    "coquette" definitions

    a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men


    talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions