prink
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Getting so you fuss if you have square-topped hairpins instead of round, and letting milliners sell you any sort of hats because you are too busy to prink!
From The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley
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 E. W. (Edward William) Cole
"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 Emma C. Dowd
Scant time was given to the godmothers to change their shoes, skirts, and stockings, and to prink.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
What I have to endure, V., waiting while you prink, no tongue can tell.
From Peggy by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry
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 Eugène Sue
Pride prinks her brow for the deil to pouse.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
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
A little cloud then cloaked us, and there flew an irised rain, And the Atlantic dyed its levels with a dull misfeatured stain, And then the sun burst out again, and purples prinked the main.
From Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces by Thomas Hardy
Was there time to make herself look otherwise, and who was there to be pleased when she was all prinked out?
From McTeague by Frank Norris
Like Greene, Moore writes both serious works of art and prinking entertainments.
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
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
It was during the "prinking process" that some very characteristic comments were made upon the masculine guests now enjoying their post-prandial cigars, or cigarettes, in the smoking-room, below stairs.
From Peggy Stewart at School by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson
And as he sat there she seemed to materialize out of the shimmering radiance of the evening air, prinking and bending forward with an enchanting smile to catch his eye.
From Command by William McFee
