prink

Example Sentences

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They accepted with pleasure and withdrew to prink.

From The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)

And Polly ran into her own room, to prink also, fearing that her friend might be ashamed of her plain costume.

From An Old-Fashioned Girl by Alcott, Louisa May

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 Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)

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 Rice, Cale Young

"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 Dowd, Emma C.