prink
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He will prink; and he will be at his best after sunset.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
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
Play your part, poor pretty doll; Feast and frolic, pose and prink; There's the Morgue to end it all, And it's later than you think.
From Ballads of a Bohemian by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
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
I must go home an' prink Elly Precious an' Carruthers.
From Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings by Annie Hamilton Donnell
Pride prinks her brow for the deil to pouse.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
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
Police looked for a clean, well-lighted bauble prinked with 41 diamonds, 113 pearls.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Go right away now, and get through with your interview, and I’ll join you in the lounge as soon as I’ve prinked, and gotten my face into order.
From Flaming June by A. Gilbert
The mill lane was prinked with all the June flowers.
From The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies by Ralph Connor
In Jersey City, painters and carpenters swarmed about inside a great pinewood saucer, patching, prinking and tidying.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Next saw the baby round the spot A mongrel slowly slinking; The wagtail gazed, but faltered not In dip and sip and prinking.
From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
Her wily glance I'll ne'er forget, The dear, the lovely blinkin o't Has pierced me through an' through the heart, An' plagues me wi' the prinking o't.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
