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Crinkle   Listen
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Crinkle  v. t.  (past & past part. crinkled; pres. part. crinkling)  To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl. "Her face all bowsy, Comely crinkled, Wondrously wrinkled." "The flames through all the casements pushing forth, Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes."






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"Crinkle" Quotes from Famous Books



... torn by what she knows And sees within the eyes of others, Her doubts are when the daylight goes, Her fears are for the few she bothers. She tells them it is wholly wrong Of her to stay alive so long; And when she smiles her forehead shows A crinkle that had been ...
— The Man Against the Sky • Edwin Arlington Robinson

... and nothing in sight that could possibly turn into a friend—except a little tuft of faded brown that out of the corner of my eye I detected zigzagging toward me in the direction from which we had come. A moment later I knew it really was a friend. "Crinkle," a mongrel dog that Fred bad adopted the day after our arrival, breasted the low rise, saw me, gave a yelp of ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy

... the "boys" of the old World staff, St. Clair McKelway, A.C. Wheeler ("Nym Crinkle"), T.E. Wilson, H.G. Crickmore, Montgomery Schuyler, E.C. Stedman, and others, will look back with a little sigh for the "old times," and for the generous recognition they received from one who was never at a loss for a subject, or for the treatment of a topic, ...
— Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" • Various



Words linked to "Crinkle" :   crinkly, line, scrunch, seam, scrunch up, cockle, crisp, life line, knit, skin, pucker, crease, wrinkle, line of Saturn, love line, heart line, crow's feet, crow's foot, dermatoglyphic, frown line, depression, tegument, ruck, mensal line, laugh line, rumple, line of fate, line of life, fold up, crinkle root, ruck up, impression, ruckle, line of destiny, cutis, furrow, crumple



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