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Even now she sometimes wears a ponytail, and age has only crispened that aquiline, no-nonsense visage.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He sent word to the staff that their rambling stories should be crispened, their tortuous sentences shortened.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Outside in the mittam, crisp saris lay in rows and crispened in the sun.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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It must never be opened now, and holding it until a fire was kindled in the grate, she tossed it into the flames, watching it as it crispened and blackened upon the glowing coals.
From Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering by Holmes, Mary Jane