crimple
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The heart glows; its humanities even yield and crimple under the fierce heat of mental pride.
From Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons by Donald Grant Mitchell
With his face contorted into a grin to crimple one's spine, with a voice to make one's knees buckle, he went up to Happy Jack and thrust that horrible grin into Happy's very face.
From The Happy Family by B. M. Bower
Also, whenever we are putting on power we won't try to stand up, our legs would crimple up like strings.
From The Skylark of Space by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
Glory stared curiously, tossed his crimpled, silver mane, dodged a second too late and found himself caught.
From The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories by B. M. Bower
For his boy friends, he made lanterns of "crimpled paper" with a candle inside, to light them to school in the dark winter mornings, and paper kites of the best form and proportion.
From Famous Men of Science by Sarah K. Bolton
The girl's face flamed an angry red under her crimpled thatch of hair.
From Stories of the Foot-hills by Margaret Collier Graham
That I should mistake the hide of a buffaloe, scorched and crimpled as it is, for the carcass of a horse!
From The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper
The paper was crimpling, and he expected at any moment to have a flame burst from under his hands.
From The Monster and Other Stories by Stephen Crane
