"Crumple" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his hand, and was about to crumple it, but I caught sight of it, and snatched it from him. It was in the same handwriting as the letter which Captain Black had sent to me at the Hotel Scribe ...
— The Iron Pirate - A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea • Max Pemberton
... door slammed full in her face Lilly stood there for a stunned instant, hugging at her bundle. She would have liked to crumple up, to have felt the earth open and drag her down to a merciful oblivion, but after a while she turned and walked down those steps, fumbling with her free hand for an address she had applied for at the hospital information desk, against ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst
... aviators aloft were fixed on the scene. They saw the large car strike the runabout and crumple its engine hood. Peggy ...
— The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly • Margaret Burnham
... shall not do any lessons, and while I am busy with Nanna and Margaretta you may amuse yourselves quietly. After dinner you shall all go out for a walk. If you crumple up your pinafore in that way, Sophia Jane," she added, "you will ...
— Susan - A Story for Children • Amy Walton
... glory. The northern wing shelved down to the ground as if the building were kneeling to the power of the wind, and the southern portion of the house, though still erect, seemed tottering and rotten throughout and holding together until at a final blow the whole structure would crumple ...
— Riders of the Silences • John Frederick
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