"Coquettish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... DOG, (very coquettish and talkative) It's my lineage, of course. One can hold me in a muff. You've seen ...
— Barks and Purrs • Colette Willy, aka Colette
... dress carefully, but the pious and blameless woman is decent to the end, in spite of her little coquettish graces. Of what use were brand-new gray silk stockings and high heeled satin shoes when she was absolutely ignorant of the art of displaying a pretty foot at a critical moment, by obtruding it an inch or two beyond a half-lifted skirt, opening ...
— Cousin Betty • Honore de Balzac
... to time, Phil had been used to bring home a rare flower or two as a gift for Adele, which Rose had always lovingly arranged in some coquettish fashion, either upon the bosom or in the hair of Adele; but a new and late gift of this kind—a little tuft of the trailing arbutus which he has clambered over miles of woodland to secure—is not worn by Adele, but ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 • Various
... and she was certainly not handsome. The coquettish angle at which she carried her head was a mannerism surviving from a time when it was more becoming. She shuddered at the cold candor of the new business ...
— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather
... go black till a long while after it is written. At least, the letters I write don't." She shot a veiled coquettish glance at the big K.C. ...
— The Hampstead Mystery • John R. Watson
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