crimpy

Example Sentences

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She has a knot of soft, crimpy, brown hair with a thread of gray in it, a sunny face with rosy cheeks, and big, kind eyes as blue as forget-me-nots.

From Anne of the Island by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

For example, I cannot credit that the mettlesome poet, Byron, would have contentedly sat down with Bartleby to examine a law document of, say five hundred pages, closely written in a crimpy hand.

From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman

Little pie with crimpy crust, Set it in the sun; Sugar it with powdered dust, And bake it till it's done.

From Child Songs of Cheer by Inglis, Antoinette

I could expect "crimpy" weather, and every moment of delay increased the frigid hardships of the journey.

From The Road by London, Jack

Then I met little Kit Seymour, a girl from the south, who had reddish hair, all crimpy, and spoke soft, soft English as if she were breathing what she said at you.

From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)