Then she crumpled the paper fiercely in both hands, and a moment later smoothed it out carefully and replaced it in the envelope.

'Why, these words have killed me,' she cried crumpling the note in her hand.

And he crumpled the letter in his hand as he spoke.

Jeff crumpled up the sheet of paper, and stuffed it into his pocket.

The fingers which had been playing with the boa had crumpled the end of it into a ball, which they were gripping so tightly that the knuckles were little white spots set in a blood-red background.

First we got ahead; then they scraped by us, crumpling our fender on the nigh side.

But the castle, although it gives itself such aristocratic airs, is, in these days, nothing but a farmhouse, sacks of maize being now stored in rooms where ladies once touched the lute with white fingers, and where gentlemen may have crumpled their frills while swearing eternal love upon their knees.

"I never gave you a present in my lifeneverdid I?" say I, squatting down on the floor beside him, crumpling my nice crisp muslin frock with the recklessness of a woman who knows that there are many more such frocks in the cupboard, and to whom this knowledge has but newly come; "never mind!

Down below us, the roof was lifted from a barn, and crumpled up in a heap half a furlong off, against some rocks; and the hay was flying in great locks through the air.

Would we, he asked father, and allow him to be an inmate? Father shook hands with him so violently that he winced; and Verry crumpled up a handful of his tawny locks and kissed them, whereat he said: "Are you grown a human woman?" About the wedding?

Jeroma was not afraid of the bright spots that he sought to conceal by crumpling the handkerchief in his hand, she had known a long time that when her father was excited those red spots came on his handkerchief.

The intruder advanced a pace or two, and nervously crumpled his hat in his hands.

They saw the large car strike the runabout and crumple its engine hood.

"They look as if some one had crumpled up a real violet leaf and cut it from the edge to the stem into a fine fringe.

They micht ha' cut the British army awa' frae it's bases, and crumpled up the whole line along the North Sea.

I glanced a piteous appeal to authority, while old Leggett, still standing by, crumpled his shaven upper lip into a professional sneer that I did not like.

What's that piece of paper you took out of the typed copy?" "Oh, that's nothing to do with the literary side of it," I said, crumpling up the little memorandum, which said that the Editor presented compliments and regretted that he was unable to make use of the enclosed contribution.

Then he sprang suddenly to his feet, his eyes flashed, his cheeks flushed, and in his excitement he crumpled the message up in his hand.

It is all he can do to navigate his own legs within' and weavin' along under him, ready to crumple down any minute into the gutter.

In a sudden revulsion at his weakness he pulled himself together, crumpled the dirty missive into a ball, and flung it out upon the white rim of beach.

" Mr. Heatherbloom's hand crumpled the newspaper; then mechanically he folded it and put it in his pocket.

"Barron is gone," he said, and crumpling up a piece of paper, he put it in his pocket "What is to be done for these animals?

Miss Lydia uttered a little, ambiguous squeak and crumpled her program in her hand.

This broke and crumpled the quill, and destroyed its power to do further harm.

And cease not to fatigue your Rolling-Pin: Of Eggs and Butter see you mix enough; For then the Paste will swell into a Puff, Which will in crumpling Sounds your Praise report, And eat, as Housewives speak, exceeding short.'