crimple

Example Sentences

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I gave Tillie all the aliases this bunch of crimples carry around with them, knowing they’d probably send it in that way.”

From Young Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph

"Teacher," he added presently, having fallen into a gently musing attitude; "how shiny those crimples in your hair look, with that streak of sun lighting on 'em!"

From Cape Cod Folks by Greene, Sarah P. McLean

All their mysterious rattletraps and whirligigs,—their curls and networks and crimples and rimples and crisping-pins,—their little absurdities, if you will,—have to me a sort of charm, like the tricks and stammerings of a curly-headed child.

From Household Papers and Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

There were tears in her eyes and one was straggling down between the crimples of her cheeks where it looked as if she had lain on the folds of her handkerchief all night.

From The City of Fire by Hill, Grace Livingston

All their mysterious rattle-traps and whirligigs,—their curls and networks and crimples and rimples and crisping-pins,—their little absurdities, if you will,—have to me a sort of charm, like the tricks and stammerings of a curly-headed child.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various