I was above one and saw his wing crumple, then fall.

"My gown is all dust, crumple, and rags, my bonnet perfectly limp and flat, and my gloves are ruined; I've broken Lizzie's parasol, made a spectacle of myself, and wasted money, time, and temper; yet my Class Day isn't a failure, for Jack is the dearest boy in the world, and I'm very, very happy!" Pris looked at her a minute, then opened her arms without a word, and Kitty forgot all her little troubles in one great joy.

He received the paper very peevishly, and was about to crumple it, apparently to throw it in the fire, when a casual glance at the design seemed suddenly to rivet his attention.

Still, the sneer at my graphic powers irritated mefor I am considered a good artistand, therefore, when you handed me the scrap of parchment, I was about to crumple it up and throw it angrily into the fire.

When he felt his plane begin to crumple up under him the Hun pilot had commenced to strive frantically to recover control.

My whole being was, with eyes closed to every object of present sense, to crumple myself up in a sunny corner, and read, read, readfancy myself on Robinson Crusoe's island, finding a mountain of plumcake, and eating a room for myself, and then eating it into the shapes of tables and chairshunger and fancy!"

Another person declares, that he saw him rub a piece of parchment in several places in streaks with yellow ochre, and then rub it on the ground which was dirty, and afterwards crumple it in his hand.

; roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple.

A yell of exultation rose from the watching Germans, who knew that an explosion close to an aeroplane is often sufficient, through the force of air concussion alone, to crumple the flimsy wings and bring it down, even though none of the flying shrapnel from the bursting bomb actually touch the operator or the machine.

I tell you we don't want men who are going to crumple up in their first action.

You mean we'd crumple up and give in?" "No.

Then he flung out his hands a little, and they flapped loosely at the wrists, like wet clothes hung in the wind to dry, and Billy seemed to crumple up suddenly, and slid down upon the grass in an untidy heap.

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

The reports of the shots alone had not stirred Thor, but now when he saw one of his enemies crumple up and go rolling down the mountain he turned slowly toward the safety of the rocks.

There is about one chance in a thousand that Callahan's crown-sheet won't get red-hot and crumple up on him in the last twenty miles.

Out of the sky, a mile away, you would see ducks flying rapidly, suddenly crumple up and plunge to the earth or water.

Three hundred bulls, white-pasterned, crumple-horned, Ranged amid these, and eke two hundred roans, Sires of a race to be: and twelve besides Herded amongst them, sacred to the Sun.

"Methinks I hear you yawn and crumple these sheets together in your hand, saying: 'What ails the manis he grown doity?

She had expected a crumpling, but the offender did not crumple.

He would have done so but for the dollar that Sharon absently bestowed upon him from a crumple of bills when he left the buggy at the entrance to Whipple Old Place.

Well, anyway, he wasn't going to begin by letting her lead him around by the nose, and he wasn't going to crumple down on his knees and tell her to please walk all over him.

These they fold up and crumple and place one set under their pillows and the other set in a saucer full of water.

The flames leap up; the burning papers crumple along the floor, in little streaks of fire, catching others that lie, still farther on in the room, still unconsumed.

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.

Egypt, where Civilization first started, had to crumple down and send her best treasures to the fur away West.