It is a pretty picture, though," he went on, meditatively,"those women in their gay soft gowns, coquetting demurely with the caballeros.

In the course of the evening Amelia coquetted so desperately with a dashing Colonel that the Count could not suppress his vexation.

It is amusing to see how these disguised priestlings now play the bully-braggart in the language of Sans-culottism, how fiercely they coquet with the red Jacobin cap, yet are ever and anon afflicted with the thought that they might forgetfully have put on in its place the red cap of a prelate; they take for an instant from their heads their borrowed covering and show the tonsure unto all the world.

The Kaiser had openly coquetted with the Sultan upon the policy of substituting Turkey for Italy in the Triple Alliance.

The representatives of foreign governments were already secretly coquetting for the favor of a free port and an advantageous cotton-market.

Katie's imagination coquetted successfully with conviction.