prink

Example Sentences

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Play your part, poor pretty doll; Feast and frolic, pose and prink; There's the Morgue to end it all, And it's later than you think.

From Ballads of a Bohemian by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

Scant time was given to the godmothers to change their shoes, skirts, and stockings, and to prink.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

"Law now, mother," said the Captain, "gals must prink afore such times; it's as natural as for hens to dress their feathers afore a thunder-storm."

From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

About midway up one of the towers, his statue appears in a niche, where pigeons strut and prink their feathers, undisturbed.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

"As much a mystery to you as it is to us, how you girls can like to gabble and prink from one week's end to the other," retorted Tom.

From An Old-Fashioned Girl by Alcott, Louisa May