crimpy

Example Sentences

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It pleased him almost to childishness to find how easily he could listen and even talk to the oiled and crimpy little barber, and to the pretty, consumptive-looking, print-dressed baker's wife.

From The Return by De la Mare, Walter

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)

A crimpy night followed, but an early patrol in the morning found the cattle snug in the dry, rank grasses which grew in the first bottoms of the creek.

From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Adams, Andy

Anxiety showed itself nakedly in his yellow-brown eyes, and there were wrinkles in his low forehead just below the crimpy hair.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Her hair hung in a crimpy torrent to below her waist.

From Maida's Little Shop by Gillmore, Inez Haynes