| 1. | Yeilded with coy submission, modest pride. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | I know her spirits are as coy and wil. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | He is a rather quaint fellow on the whole, coy though not feebleminded in the medical sense. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 4. | The nymph of the LINDEN TREE is represented as a little coy maiden, whose short silver-gray dress reaches a little below the knee, and displays to advantage her delicately formed limbs. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 5. | There was also a Nun, a PRIORESS, That of her smiling was full simple and coy Her greatest oathe was but by Saint Loy And she was clepe. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 6. | Under the upswelling tide he saw the writhing weeds lift languidly and sway reluctant arms, hising up their petticoats, in whispering water swaying and upturning coy silver fronds. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |