prink
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"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
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
Many mourn; many think It is not unattractive to prink Them in sable for heroes.
From Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd
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
They sat for a long time without speaking, these two women, watching him preen and prink, a bit of lively blue against the newborn green.
From Viola Gwyn by George Barr McCutcheon
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
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
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
The shepherd prinked him for the dance, With jacket gay and spangle's glance, And all his finest quiddle.
From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Charles Timothy Brooks
“Aw, Jimmery! if it ban’t Blee; an’ prinked out for a weddin’, tu, by the looks of it!”
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
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
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
On the wind-bare thorn some longtails prinking Cried sweet, as though wind blown glass were chinking.
From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield
Anxiety, from the moment it began, made me neglect myself—no prinking, no housework, dust powdering my furniture.
From Woman by Magdeleine Marx
