crimpy

Example Sentences

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I could expect "crimpy" weather, and every moment of delay increased the frigid hardships of the journey.

From The Road by London, Jack

For example, I cannot credit that the mettlesome poet, Byron, would have contentedly sat down with Bartleby to examine a law document of, say five hundred pages, closely written in a crimpy hand.

From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman

Little pie with crimpy crust, Set it in the sun; Sugar it with powdered dust, And bake it till it's done.

From Child Songs of Cheer by Inglis, Antoinette

Anxiety showed itself nakedly in his yellow-brown eyes, and there were wrinkles in his low forehead just below the crimpy hair.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Winter'll come on up that way and make the sleepin' crimpy.

From The Little Lady of the Big House by London, Jack