If she had sung HANDEL with a smile, and a coquettish tossing of her head, they would still have hated her, but they would not have ventured to call her "inartistic."

She matches Antony in qualities of intellect, while she dazzles him with her coquettish arts.

Ethelyn, may I present Mr. Harper?" Immediately Ethelyn assumed a coquettish and simpering demeanour.

Dressed in white, with their locks curled, arrayed indeed in the most coquettish style, they looked like big fragile dolls.

Of course she listened with the usual accompaniment of tears and smiles, reproaches and exclamations, varied by cruel exultations and coquettish commands to go away and never dare approach her again.

Since the funeral, and especially since the inauguration of the delaine, Mrs. Marmaduke Splurge had been less alive to the necessity of improving the minds of her girls; and that virginal ten-dollar investment had provided Josephine, Adelaide, and Madeline with supplies of small arms and ammunition enough for a protracted campaign of epistolary belligerence, interrupted by hair-strokes of coquettish diplomacy.

As regards her dress, she was prodigiously coquettish, and her own face was surely what she thought most of on earth.

Her beauty, accomplishments, and manners, were fascinating; and she appears, by some coquettish advances, to have won his affections.

Next was the highborn blonde and coquettish Jeannette d'Honrath, who used to tease him by singing ironical love ditties.

This brought him into acquaintance with operatic people, and he fell under the charm of that "coquettish little serpent Margarethe Lang.

They are very pretty, these Asiatics, with their long tresses, their transversely striped bodices, their skirts of bright colors, relieved by Chinese designs in Kothan silk, their high-heeled embroidered boots, their turbans of coquettish pattern, beneath which appear their black hair and their eyebrows united by a bar.

The afternoon was far advanced when the country opened and I saw a village of coquettish appearance, for most of the houses had been washed with red, and many of the window-shutters were painted green.

"For you love me, father," she concluded, and looked up daintily, with a pathetic, coquettish tilt of her fair head, to peer into his face.

And still a while the glittering toy, Coquettish, seemed to shun the snare, And then more eager grew the boy, And followed with impetuous air.

The gentlemen across the net presently became unruly, and would play no more at a game which was merely intended, it seemed, to provide their opponents with talk of a coquettish character.

So it is easy to imagine the horror of such relatives as I have hinted at when our two beautiful adventuresses returned from Paris, and appeared before their families in great Spanish cloaks, picturesque, coquettish enough you may be sure, veiling with some show of discretion those hideous compromises with trousers invented and worn by the strong-minded Mrs. Bloomer, and wearing their hair after the manner of Florentine boys.

Her first moves were those of every handsome and coquettish female.

Perhaps she would toss it saucily aside, perhaps let it rest on her coquettish braids,a token that its owner was her accepted gallant for the evening.

Presently this slightly coquettish, yet very good and lovely little beingthis seraph from one of Fra Angelica's pictures, endowed with a frailty or two of humanityfound herself the heroine of a trying scene.

Had Caroline's manner been more generally coquettish, Mrs. Hamilton's eyes might have been opened; but her behaviour in general was such as rather to diminish than increase those fears which, before her child had joined the world, had very frequently occupied her anxious heart.

They all admired her, indeed, and sometimes paid her compliments,the friars as well as the cavaliers, the prebendaries as well as the magistrate,as a prodigy of beauty, an honor to her Creator, and as a coquettish and mischievous sprite, who innocently enlivened the most melancholy of spirits.

Are you sure it is not pity for the deceit you practiced upon meupon Don Juanupon poor Father Pedro?" It seemed as if Cranch had tried to answer with a kiss, for the girl drew suddenly away from him with a coquettish fling of the black braids, and whipped her little brown hands behind her.

The incarnation of a frivolous world, even as she extended one hand to him in half-coquettish embarrassment she arranged the folds of her dress with the other.

#coquet, -te#, fascinating, coquettish.

Mrs. Poynsett had never seen her before, and after all she had heard about her, was quite amazed at the sight of such an insignificant little person as she was without her dash and sparkle, and in a dress which, when no longer coquettish, verged upon the slovenly.