All 7 Uses of
coy
in
Don Quixote
- Yet for all that, in thy coyness, And thy fickle fits between, Hope is there—at least the border Of her garment may be seen.†
Chpt 1.11-12
- Ungrateful, cruel, coy, and fair, Was she that drove him to despair, And Love hath made her his ally For spreading wide his tyranny.†
Chpt 1.13-14
- What is the lure for love when coy and strange?†
Chpt 1.27-28 *
- All this caution of mine, which he must have taken for coyness, had apparently the effect of increasing his wanton appetite—for that is the name I give to his passion for me; had it been what he declared it to be, you would not know of it now, because there would have been no occasion to tell you of it.†
Chpt 1.27-28
- All these questions and answers passed through my mind in a moment; but the oaths of Don Fernando, the witnesses he appealed to, the tears he shed, and lastly the charms of his person and his high-bred grace, which, accompanied by such signs of genuine love, might well have conquered a heart even more free and coy than mine—these were the things that more than all began to influence me and lead me unawares to my ruin.†
Chpt 1.27-28
- While these questions and answers were proceeding, the fair Zoraida, who had already perceived me some time before, came out of the house in the garden, and as Moorish women are by no means particular about letting themselves be seen by Christians, or, as I have said before, at all coy, she had no hesitation in coming to where her father stood with me; moreover her father, seeing her approaching slowly, called to her to come.†
Chpt 1.41-42
- But over-cautious prudery, And coyness cold and cruel, When most I need it, these, like clouds, Its longed-for light refuse me.†
Chpt 1.43-44
Definition:
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(coy as in: a coy, flirtatious smile) being (or pretending to be) shy