crimpy

Example Sentences

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"Well, he was tall and very straight, and had small ears and—er—a fairish mustache that was brushed up a little away from his lips, and—and cat's eyes, and—brown, crimpy hair, getting a little gray."

From The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel by Glyn, Elinor

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

Molly was six years old; a plump, roly-poly little girl with long, crimpy golden hair and great blue eyes.

From Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories by M. T. W.

A crimpy night followed, but an early patrol in the morning found the cattle snug in the dry, rank grasses which grew in the first bottoms of the creek.

From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Adams, Andy

It pleased him almost to childishness to find how easily he could listen and even talk to the oiled and crimpy little barber, and to the pretty, consumptive-looking, print-dressed baker's wife.

From The Return by De la Mare, Walter