coy

Coy readers should heed the lesson learned by the young woman in “The Squirrel.”

"Coy Maiden" is a graceful thing, but hardly deserves the punishment of so horrible a name.

If Mr. Donald Estey had expected Mrs. Darling to be shy and coy at his advances, he found himself entirely mistaken.

This was his ingenious way of storming the citadel of the coy maiden's affections.

Why should she hesitate, and play the coy girl, and pretend to any doubts in her mind which did not exist there?

From this point to the end is the work of a later period, and in his best manner, though unsuited to the coy Clerk.