The Beaches of Lukannon--the winter wheat so tall-- The dripping,
crinkled lichens, and the sea-fog drenching all!
Far out along the horizon was the
crinkled gray ribbon of a passing steamer's smoke.
It was only of polished brass, continued the circular, though it was invariably mistaken for solid gold, and the shade that accompanied it (at least it accompanied it if the agent sold a hundred extra cakes) was of
crinkled crepe paper printed in a dozen delicious hues, from which the joy-dazzled agent might take his choice.
Diablo, ever to be seen, sleeping in the midday azure, limping its
crinkled mass against the sunset sky, or forming like a dream out of the silver dawn.
She drew a green vase with a
crinkled lip towards her, and began pulling out the tight little chrysanthemums, which she laid on the table-cloth, arranging them fastidiously side by side.
Why must their ruffs be always
crinkled like endive leaves, and not crimped with a crimping iron?" (From this we may perceive the antiquity of starch and crimped ruffs.) Then he goes on: "Poor gentleman of good family!
He
crinkled the paper viciously and resumed his reading.
Michael wagged his tail, flattened his ears, even his
crinkled ear, a trifle, and smiled, all in a casual way of recognition, smelled out the room to make doubly sure that there was no scent of Steward, and lay down on the floor.
As his pointed fingers touched it, it dropped the white scurf of
crinkled lids over black, glasslike eyes and began to sway backwards and forwards.
His face was thin and brown and crafty, with a perpetual smile upon it, which showed an irregular line of yellow teeth, and his
crinkled hands were half closed in a way that is distinctive of sailors.
Her eye was arrested by crossed scabbards of fretted wood upon the dull green wall, and whereever there was a high flat eminence, some fern waved from a pot of
crinkled china, or a bronze horse reared so high that the stump of a tree had to sustain his forequarters.
His cheeks were red, his brow was all
crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his temples with passion.
