toquade

Updated: June 16, 2025

"I think all women like that," she sighed. "We could all of us be good if the person we love went on being demonstrative. It is the cold, matter-of-fact devotion that kills love, and makes one want to look elsewhere to find it again." Then we talked of possibilities about the duke. I told her I knew his toquade, and she, of course, was fully acquainted with mamma's history.

Elinor Glyn - Red Hair

"In the habit of happening that's too much to say. I may have had a little toquade from time to time I don't say no of an innocence! or nearly of an innocence! Mais que voulez-vous? a woman in my position! a widow since I was so high! and exposed to the most flattering attentions. You know nothing about it over here.

Basil King - The Street Called Straight