" Suddenly Mrs. Connors crumpled in a heap upon the lacy pillows, pink sequins heaving.

She stared straight in front of her for an instant with very large eyes in this scarlet rose of countenance and then she crumpled into mirth.

The leg crumpled under Bull and sent him pitching forward on his face.

The constable was crumpling to the ground, his body slack and inert, while the giant slashed at him with a dub of firewood he had snatched from the ground.

It was a pitybecause the missive was mysterious, crumpled with long carryingand if a trusty member of their own community had delivered it to Fra Paolo in his cell, there might have been some revelation!

On the fourth day they swept the Germans out again with shell fire, under which the walls of the chateau, although two or three feet thick, crumpled like paper.

Twice more the muzzle of Silent's gun jerked up and the second man crumpled on the floor of the car.

One arm was horribly crumpled beneath him; his ribs were shattered, there was a great gash where the rung of the chair had cut into the bone like a knife.

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.

As a matter of fact, the title to the land was vested entirely in his young American wife; his sole possession, according to report, being a title much less substantial but a great deal more picturesque than the large, much-handled piece of paper down in the safety deposit vaultlying close and crumpled among a million sordid, homely little slips called coupons.

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.

Some of them he crumpled between his hands and threw away.

it was sadly soiled, it was worn beyond repair and crumpled beyond belief.

Crumpled against the wall, his head bowed forward and cramped, the stern old man still controlled them with the upward glance of his eyes through the shag of eyebrows.