prink

Example Sentences

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You don’t know how to prink, do you?”

From Flaming June by Gilbert, A.

Mebbee ye'll have to prink up a little now that we've got a gentleman contractor in the ship.

From Frontier Stories by Harte, Bret

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 Cole, E. W. (Edward William)

Come, I will show you now my newest hat, And you may watch me purse my mouth and prink.

From American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany by Various

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)