prink
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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
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
"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
"I'll give you fifteen minutes to prink up in," the Doctor told them; and away they scampered, Polly halting by David's cot long enough to wish he "were going too."
From Polly of the Hospital Staff by Dowd, Emma C.
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 Alcott, Louisa May
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 Sue, Eugène
Pride prinks her brow for the deil to pouse.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
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
The girls whispered and prinked, and exchanged confidences with self-conscious airs.
From Brother Copas by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Charity nodded and prinked a little and went down-stairs into Jim's arms.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
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
In Jersey City, painters and carpenters swarmed about inside a great pinewood saucer, patching, prinking and tidying.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were a number of ladies in this yellow room, prinking themselves before going downstairs.
From The Butterfly House by Meylan, Paul Julian
Agatha, recovering from her remorse by this time, helped Phillida to do a little hurried prinking.
From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Eggleston, Edward
