prink
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"If I took as much time to prink as you do I believe I could fuss myself up to look like something."
From The Bachelors A Novel by William Dana Orcutt
I felt inclined to prink in the 94 golden mirror, after the manner of Susie, and exclaim: “Oh, do not say that, Amelia!”
From The Mistress of Shenstone by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay
You don’t know how to prink, do you?”
From Flaming June by A. Gilbert
When I descend Towards their brink I stand, and look, And stoop, and drink, And bathe my wings, And chink and prink.
From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Thomas Hardy
Doña Ximena had her daughters ready to receive them in full noble garments, for since midnight they had done nothing but prink and prank themselves.
From Chronicle of the Cid by Robert Southey
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
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
Police looked for a clean, well-lighted bauble prinked with 41 diamonds, 113 pearls.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week artistic Manhattan primped and prinked for a distinguished guest.
From Time Magazine Archive
The clocks had struck two when he reached Leppard Street, and the houses confronted him, their roofs and chimneys prinked with stars.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
A chain of "Bungel belles" stretched their thin arms above their heads in a letter O and prinked about on their toes like bantams in a dust road.
From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Fannie Hurst
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
Like Greene, Moore writes both serious works of art and prinking entertainments.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Hic, haec, hoc, is a deal meeter for the like o’ thee than prinking of wedding doublets!”
From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt
You look horrid in blue, and you know it, in spite of all your prinking around and pretending.
From Marcia Schuyler by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
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