prink

Example Sentences

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And you, Rizzio, who on your wedding-day, Mid rites of Venus And revels to Apollo, Wear pagan robes—and prink others in them— Rizzio.

From Porzia by Rice, Cale Young

I came in here just to remind you to begin to prink before dinner or you’d never be ready.”

From The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended by Hill, Grace Brooks

They sat for a long time without speaking, these two women, watching him preen and prink, a bit of lively blue against the newborn green.

From Viola Gwyn by McCutcheon, George Barr

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

When I descend Towards their brink I stand, and look, And stoop, and drink, And bathe my wings, And chink and prink.

From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Hardy, Thomas