jilt

When one is twenty and romantic one would scorn a woman who would jilt us for wealth and position; at thirty, one would scorn any woman who didn't.

He is a pleasant fellow, and would jilt you creditably."

Some few years since it was the great misfortune of my life to meet with a Jilt. You know what I mean?"

"In plain English, it's your sovereign will and pleasure, Miss Verinder, to jilt my son?"

Kearney," she said dryly, "one would think that some silly, conceited girl"--she was quite earnest in her epithets, for a sudden, angry conviction of some coquetry and disingenuousness in Jessie had come to her in contemplating its effects upon the young fellow at her side--"some country jilt, had been trying her rustic hand upon you."

It was said she had been brutally jilted by her cousin, Rutland Whitney, and that she married this unknown man from the West out of bravado.

Thou hast jilted a maiden As fair to behold As nymph of Diana Or Venus of old.

I tell him to break his engagement, and not be worried so; but he won't, because she has been jilted once and he thinks it

Suppose you have been jilted in a way which wounds your vanity.

A letter, to be plain, in which he not only jilts you--pardon the word; I would summon to your aid your pride and dignity--not only jilts you, I fear, in favour of the object whose slighting treatment first inspired his brief passion for yourself and gave it birth in wounded vanity, but affects to make a merit and a virtue of the act.'

But though she bears no ill-will when she is jilted, you must serve faithfully while you are hers, and you must seek her out and make much of her, and, until you can rely on her good-nature (note this), not a word about the other lady.

If they be jilted, they drink for the contrary reason.