16 collocations for pucker

And his pain, for his suffering was pitiful to behold, puckered her brows, twisted her lips.

John Sammons was sent to bring up the new member of the company, and Sergeant Corney said, grimly, as he tried without avail to pucker his wrinkled face into a frown: "At this rate you'll soon lose the right to call yourselves Minute Boys, because this 'ere company is fast becomin' a refuge for the aged and outcast.

The father puckered his lips in an attempt to sneer, and the mother jerked her head with an air of bravado.

That astringents shrivelled up the flesh and puckered the mouth, even when their taste was not perceived.

" Phebe puckered up her forehead.

In my mind I had learned to associate such a sight with at least one old womanan incredibly old woman, with a back bent like a measuring worm's, and a cap on her scanty hair, and a face crosshatched with a million wrinkleswho would be pottering about at the back of some half- ruined house or maybe squatting in a desolated doorway staring at us with her rheumy, puckered eyes.

Mrs. Bemont herself appeared, wiping her red, puckered hands on a long brown towel.

The old man who, with thin wiry legs, walked by his side, in a dingy white coat, and blue facings, and great pewter buttons, with his silver gray hair escaping from under his battered three-cocked hat; and his shrewd puckered resolute face, in which the boy could read no promise of sympathy, showing so white and phantom-like in the moonlight, was, as he thought, the incarnate ideal of a fairy.

He guessed that she was about to say something interesting, something that was puckering her mental interior, struggling to come out.

It was a peculiar sound made up in the air by Little John, and that did it, for when young Robin looked up in astonishment, it was to see the great fellow's face all puckered up, andyes, there were two great tears rolling down his cheeks as he caught the boy in his arms and kissed him.

They'll pucker the very stomach out of you.

In the glasses made now, one detests one's own face; They pucker one's cheeks up and furrow one's brow, And one's skin looks as yellow as that of Miss Howe!"

I used to pucker my eyebrowswrinkle them all up, but mamma said I must overcome that habit.

I go riding..." He puckered his eyelids inquiringly.

" She remained very quiet as we rattled down the hill, her forehead puckered, her gaze straight ahead.

I pierce a little wall of gloom To mingle with the Day! I brothered with the things that pass, Poor giddy Joy and puckered Grief; I go to brother with the Grass And with the sunning Leaf.

16 collocations for  pucker