prink
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The half-dozen old maids in upper circles who had long since given up hope began to prink and perk themselves into an amazing state of rejuvenation,—revival, you might say.
From Her Weight in Gold by George Barr McCutcheon
They accepted with pleasure and withdrew to prink.
From The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
Come, I will show you now my newest hat, And you may watch me purse my mouth and prink.
From American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany by Various
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
And you, Rizzio, who on your wedding-day, Mid rites of Venus And revels to Apollo, Wear pagan robes—and prink others in them— Rizzio.
From Porzia by Cale Young Rice
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
Pride prinks her brow for the deil to pouse.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
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
She was all prinked up fit to kill.
From By the Light of the Soul A Novel by Harold M. Brett
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
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
On the wind-bare thorn some longtails prinking Cried sweet, as though wind blown glass were chinking.
From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield
Before Susan had done prinking, church was over.
From Armenian Literature by Anonymous
