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He's going to take us to the 'coy." Tom followed his companion into the boat, the dog leaped in after them, whining with pleasure; and shaking his head and talking to himself, Dave followed, seized the pole, giving a grunt at Dick, who wanted to preside over the locomotion, and then, with a tremendous thrust, he sent the punt surging through the water. "Nay, I'll pole," he said.
She had eyes of a modest and virtuous blue, with a look more coy than that of the Virgin, for she was less forward, never having had a child. Had any one said to her, "Come, let us make love," she would have said, "Love! What is that?" she was so innocent and so little open to the comprehensions of the thing.
Now that his heart is subdued and slow he still looks for pearls, and tempts coy Fortune with dramatic sincerity and most untempting things. He wants one pearl more, that he may acquire the means of travelling to his native land. Hamed of Jeddah would die there.
Fine, fleeting fantasies we have, a tender, heartfelt, heart-reaching pathos, laughter that might at any moment tremble into tears, eternal truths, draped in the garb of quaint and simple story, solemn fervors, subtile sympathies, and the winsomeness of little children at their play, sometimes glowing with the deepest color, often just tinged to the pale and changing hues of a dream, but touched with such coy grace, modulated to such free, wild rhythm, suffused with such a delicate, evanishing loveliness, that they seem scarcely to be the songs of our tangible earth, but snatches from fairy-land.
It was not all blue, but rosy blue, lilac blue, tawny blue, living flesh, vast and spotless nudity heaving like a woman's bosom in the breeze. At every glance into space he found a fresh surprise unknown nooks, coy smiles, bewitching rounded outlines, gauzy veils which were cast over the mighty, glorious forms of goddesses in the depths of peeping paradises.
What I was thinking of was those famous lines of Sir Walter Scott's. You recollect the ones I mean, I suppose?" "No; I don't." "'Oh woman," said Meldon, "'in our hours of ease' that's now, Major, so far as we're concerned 'uncertain, coy, and hard to please. That's what Miss King ought to have been, but wasn't. Nobody can say she was coy about the lobsters.
Pleasure he sought everywhere, in all countries; and the more ardently and eagerly he sought it, the less was he able to find it. Pleasure was the first modest, coy woman who cruelly shunned him, and the more he pursued her, the more coldly did she seem to fly him. And now he converted his whole life into an adventure, a kind of quixotic pursuit of the lost loved one, Pleasure.
It was the little tremors and coy unfoldings and sweet agitations of love revealing itself it wakened in Jane's heart like a wandering rose. And I saw this awakening of the woman, mother, and it was a wonderful sight." "John, you have had an experience that most men miss; be thankful for it." "I am, mother. As long as I live, I will remember it." "Did you see Mrs. Harlow?" "For a short time only.
And was there not at times, when she abandoned the ways and speech of a woman of the world, a singular coy fascination about her, that any man might be excused for yielding to, even as any woman might yield to it? Sheila fought with herself, and resolved that she would cast forth from her heart those harsh fancies and indignant feelings that seemed to have established themselves there.
I knew, immediately I had done it, that I could not love Betty Coy, but I believed that I could prove the tender husband. Correspondence to this effect all on my side with her parents decided mine to hasten my removal abroad.
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