Lexicographical Neighbors of Coyishly
Literary usage of Coyishly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"I LOOKED into the fountain, In its waters bright and clear ; And I saw thy gentle
features Dimly, coyishly appear. I knelt down by its margin On the ..."
2. The Metropolitan (1838)
"in, coyishly struggling with the very faintest, faintest daybreak— inhaled once
or twice long draughts of the fresh air—again folded the shutters across the ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas for the by Charles Patrick Daly (1876)
"... be supposed to be entertaining or coyishly weighing with intent to avoid paying
commissions. The bona fidex of the conveyance made to his brother before ..."
4. California Inter Pocula by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1888)
"Above and beyond the edges of this Tartarean pool, round which struggle pale
sickly trees, in the valley of the Pluton, and sometimes approaching coyishly ..."
5. Recollections of an Alienist, Personal and Professional by Allan McLane Hamilton (1916)
"Ah, I see you are (coyishly). Well, the Earl of Powys had a prize dog, a setter—no,
a pointer— named Dash in his kennels near Inverness worth two thousand ..."
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