"If you're planning to put a crimp in his ambitions, sir, I've got a pistol I know how to use.

She smoothed out her crimps with a wet and ruthless hand; fastened up her pretty hair in the simple way Jack liked; gave her once cherished bonnet a spiteful shake, as she put it on, and utterly extinguished it with a big blue veil.

We could show him very pretty shooting.' Tregarva answered by the first and last oath Lancelot ever heard from him, and turning to him, as the rascal sneaked off, 'That's a poaching crimp from London, sir; tempting these poor boys to sin, and deceit, and drunkenness, and theft, and the hulks.'

That war-song put a crimp into me that Jack Frost himself couldn't take out.