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... the face of it it tells the story of Hazlitt's infatuation with his landlords daughter. Hazlitt was middle aged and she young and pretty, a bit of a coquette from the sound of it. It turned out badly for Hazlitt and the book tells the story of this doomed love. Critics have always been divided about the merit of the piece. Even those who see its merit often feel more comf...

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...h so the veil fell forward to brush against his bare chest. “The Crimson Coquette. The Ruby-red Menace,” she whispered. “Those are two of the ot... ...red his lower half. “But it seems you’re past the necessity of the Crimson Coquette’s tricks. Suppose we advance directly to the Scarlet Seductres...

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...fe was becoming chaotic. Sentence Only the provisional is for ever. Coquette Extremely artificial her naturalness. (Translated by Tud...

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...e most agreeable. I’ll warrant you that at heart Madame Ruck is a finished coquette.” “I rather doubt it,” I said. “You suppose her cold? Ne vous y fi... ...es, and you find it’s a nature of the tropics! The women of duty look like coquettes, and the others look like alpenstocks! However, we have still the...

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... gifted with more brain than heart; she was supremely a woman, supremely a coquette, and above all things a Parisienne, loving a brilliant life and ga... ...eing his. Nature had given the Duchess every qualification for the part of coquette, and education had perfected her. Women envied her, and men fell i... ...oquetting with me, and—” “Coquetting?” she repeated. “I detest coquetry. A coquette Armand, makes promises to many, and gives herself to none; and a w... ...he is heart- less, brainless, soulless; and what is more, devoid of charm! Coquettes will not spare me. They will rob me of the very qualities that mo... ...nd now there is nothing.” She remembered the times that she had played the coquette with him, and how that her coquetry had cost her her lover, and th...

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...ownward to a Gnome, In search of mishief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of ai... ...r. Tis these that early taint the female soul, Instruct the eyes of young coquettes to roll, Teach infant cheeks a bidden blush to know, And little h...

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...ed herself all the innocent gaieties which that “char- tered libertine,” a coquette, can take. She flirted with all the bachelors, widowers, and marri... ...al at her early age. The ladies—Heaven bless them!—are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards. Little SHE’S of three years old play littl... ...ver can be surpassed in maturer years. Miss Catherine, then, was a franche coquette, and Mr. John Hayes was miserable. His life was passed in a storm ...

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...ter them all; she thought an old English name as good. What a transcendent coquette! . . . But basta cosi as she used to say. I meant to go tonight to... ... and knows tremendously well what she is about. If she is not a consummate coquette . . . What had she in her head when she said that I should not hav... ... an actress, an artist, and all the rest of it?” “She was the most perfect coquette I ever knew, and the most dangerous, because the most finished.” “... ...most finished.” “What you mean, then, is that her daughter is a fin- ished coquette?” “I rather think so.” Stanmer walked along for some moments in si...

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...id the chevalier, “keep her four or five months. How can you expect her to coquette with Calyste? She is never here long enough to undertake it. Where... ...ste feel the folly of his speech. None but women who truly love, or inborn coquettes, know how to use a word as a point from which to make a spring. “... ...se it conquers her repugnance.” If you deny this principle, divined by all coquettes and courtesans through- out all social zones, you may as well rej...

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...hat in five minutes I knew them, at least, for what they were—three arrant coquettes.” “Je les connais!” exclaimed M. Pelet. “Elles sont toujours au ... ...and deportment than Pelagie and Suzette, but in character genuine Parisian coquette, perfidious, mercenary, and dry-hearted. A fourth maitresse I some...

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...onal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascination, as any coquette in the world. Downstairs, then, they went, Joseph very red and blu... ...o easily, are traps to cajole or elude or disarm—I don’t mean in your mere coquettes, but your domestic models, and paragons of female virtue. Who has...

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...d have that gentleman’s name.’ He wanted a foe. ‘You know you are ready to coquette with the General at any moment, Tony,’ said her friend. 27 George... ...sively to bring in the name of Mr. Percy Dacier, just to show these arrant coquettes, or worse, that they were not quite so privi- leged to pursue the... ...rickeries. The nearest he could get to her was to conceive that the arrant coquette was now laughing at her utter subjugation and befooling of the man...

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...rely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. She was withal a little of a coquette, as might be perceived even in her dress, which was a mixture of... ...urse. Ichabod, on the contrary, had to win his way to the heart of a country coquette, beset with a laby The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irv... ...ntitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero. Certain it is, this was not the case with the ...

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...le Dealer. 6 His Way of the World might be called The Conquest of a T own Coquette, and Millamant is a perfect portrait of a coquette, both in her re... ...were hungry in the forest, was ordered to give him flesh. She is a fieffee coquette, rejoicing in her wit and her attractions, and distinguished by he...

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...man and the panther looked at one another with a look full of meaning; the coquette quivered when she felt her friend stroke her head; her eyes flashe...

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...clergy; but balls and assemblies will be indecent for some time. As for you, coquettes, bawds, and chamber-maids, (the fu- ture ministers, plenipotent...

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...es, as broad and green as ever, all the generations of men. Thus, my dear, coquettes of your fascinating sex cover their persons with figgery, fantast...

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... doesn’t cost a penny to dower their heroines. Madame Firmiani is simply a coquette, who has lately ruined a young man, and now pre- vents him from ma...

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...onal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascination, as any coquette in the world. Downstairs, then, they went, Joseph very red and blu... ...o easily, are traps to cajole or elude or disarm—I don’t mean in your mere coquettes, but your domestic models, and paragons of female virtue. Who has...

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... Vernon on being about to receive into your family the most accom- plished coquette in England. As a very distinguished flirt I have always been taugh... ...t has been equally guarded from the first, and I never behaved less like a coquette in the whole course of my life, though perhaps my desire of domini...