crimpy

Example Sentences

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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

Her black crimpy hair seemed to rise up, while her eyes got suddenly a repulsive power, as though they said: "Away from her, what have you to do with her?"

From The Fisher Girl by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne

The morning was crimpy cold, but the horses warmed to the work, and covered the two miles to the bend before the sun even streaked the east.

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

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