prink
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She'd stand and prink, and fix her hair Around her forehead with great care; And take some time to tie a bow That must, to please her, lie just so.
From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole
The friends had a social "cup o' tea" upstairs, which Polly considered the height of luxury, and then each took a mirror and proceeded to prink to her heart's content.
From An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
"If I took as much time to prink as you do I believe I could fuss myself up to look like something."
From The Bachelors A Novel by William Dana Orcutt
Mabbee ye'll have to prink up a little now that we've got a gentleman contractor in the ship.
From By Shore and Sedge by Bret Harte
And Polly ran into her own room, to prink also, fearing that her friend might be ashamed of her plain costume.
From An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
Pride prinks her brow for the deil to pouse.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
He prinks in his violet robe of fine woven silk.
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue
Five insets adorned the board, four containing tin-types of handsome human females coifed and prinked as was the fashion 35 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week artistic Manhattan primped and prinked for a distinguished guest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Police looked for a clean, well-lighted bauble prinked with 41 diamonds, 113 pearls.
From Time Magazine Archive
So ducks and I dabbled and prinked in all innocence in the garden, which might well have been the garden of Eden for any hint it gave of a world beyond.
From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell
Go right away now, and get through with your interview, and I’ll join you in the lounge as soon as I’ve prinked, and gotten my face into order.
From Flaming June by A. Gilbert
In Jersey City, painters and carpenters swarmed about inside a great pinewood saucer, patching, prinking and tidying.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like Greene, Moore writes both serious works of art and prinking entertainments.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bolt's scenario preserves the prinking wit and rolling eloquence of the play, but the plot has been smoothed and straightened in its passage through the projector.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next saw the baby round the spot A mongrel slowly slinking; The wagtail gazed, but faltered not In dip and sip and prinking.
From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
"Just because you caught me prinking that once!"
From Snow-Blind by Katharine Newlin Burt
