Shy, in a cute way

Usage examples of coy.

Bethany requested the pot of tea, then led Coy up to her room, thinking that her new friend might be the solution to more than one problem.

Bethany leaned her head back against the edge of the tub and let Coy have her way.

WAS WITH great relief that Bethany rounded the corner and followed Coy into the first saloon they found.

Heaven that Coy had insisted she carry a fan as the proper accessory to her dress.

Had Coy not butchered one of the curtains and pinned the piece of lace to the front of her dress, Bethany might have been the object of bold hands, as well.

She snapped open her fan, as Coy had shown her, held it under her chin, and began waving it delicately, glad of the slight breeze to dispel the varieties of aromas emanating from her male companions.

Bethany said, raising her eyes to Coy, who had returned to her position behind Hudson.

Zach swore, while George guffawed, and Coy danced behind Zach, softly clapping her gloved hands.

She glanced at Coy, who kept her fan closed and placed three fingers against its side.

Since prisoners were boarded there, anyway, she would hold Zach there at gunpoint until Coy arrived with Sheriff Walker, as planned.

Hudson was manacled, Mike took the gun from Coy and marched his prisoner from the room.

Although Mike and Coy were several yards ahead, engrossed in their own conversation, and Trent doubted they would pay attention to anything he and Bethany might say to each other, he instinctively knew that now was not the time.

Carl brought her baggage down to the depot and helped the driver load it onto the coach while Coy and Bethany said their farewell.

Rather than frighten her into it, Bethany preferred to use any other means of reasoning to persuade Coy to go on in pursuit of her ambitions.

What Coy had done also was pack a considerable amount of food in a long rush basket, a bountiful picnic.