Flirtation

Examples

• It would have all ended in a regular standing flirtation, in yearly meetings at Sotherton and Everingham. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Since the ----shire were first quartered in Meryton, nothing but love, flirtation, and officers have been in her head. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• What flirtation is going on there, pray, between you two? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Flirtation, after all, was not necessarily a singeing process. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There was nothing like flirtation between her and her partner. Jane Austen. Emma.
• You have been long aware of the flirtation they keep up? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was before he knew me that he thought of her, and it was nothing but a mere flirtation. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It--it's a flirtation--nothing more. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• That would have been a graver mess than a little flirtation with politics. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The library at Bellomont was in fact never used for reading, though it had a certain popularity as a smoking-room or a quiet retreat for flirtation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• That moment of naturalness was the crystallizing feather-touch: it shook flirtation into love. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Miss Fanshawe's travels, gaieties, and flirtations agreed with her mightily; she had become quite plump, her cheeks looked as round as apples. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Gossip as other girls do, and be interested in dress and flirtations and whatever nonsense comes up. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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