Crumpled

Examples

• The centre and left of the Persians crumpled up. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He held up a little crumpled piece of paper. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He opened one of his hands, and looked at a note crumpled up in his palm. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried orange pips. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Next morning Fred showed me one of the crumpled flowers in his vest pocket, and looked very sentimental. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• In drawing out the linen, I also drew out a letter crumpled up with it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I can hold them crumpled up in my hand, so no one will know how stained they are. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Mr. Jingle crumpled up the licence, and thrust it into his coat pocket. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Archer crumpled up the yellow sheet as if the gesture could annihilate the news it contained. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The tall, thin man in his crumpled clothes was unnerved and irritable as a boy, finding himself on the brink of this social function. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The big fellow spun around like a top, his knees gave beneath him and he crumpled to the ground at my feet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The old lady chuckled, crumpled her lids, and went through the pantomime of archness. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Sir Percival crumpled up the paper in his hand, and pushing past the Count, with another oath, stood between him and the door. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The revolver exploded harmlessly in the air, and the seaman crumpled up with a scream of pain and terror. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He looked it out from a handful of small change, folded it in some crumpled paper, and gave it to me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I crumpled up the letter in my pocket, and forgot it the moment after, in the all-absorbing interest of my coming interview with Rachel. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Raffles drew a crumpled paper from his pocket. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Meanwhile a great plague swept the world, and at his death this renewed and expanded empire of his crumpled up again like a blown-out bladder. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I stood breathless with the paper crumpled up in my hand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Holmes held up a crumpled branch of flowering gorse. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• His hair could not have been more violently on end, if it had been that moment dressed by the Cow with the crumpled horn in the house that Jack built. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• That poor crumpled Macedonian brute in the well had been doing only what he had been told he had full liberty to do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He tossed a crumpled letter across to me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Longer coffins were never made in the whole country of South Wessex, and 'tis said that poor George's knees were crumpled up a little e'en as 'twas. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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