Wrinkles
['rɪŋkl]
Unserious Contents or Definition
A merchant's trade-marks.
Edited by Gail
Examples
- His marks and wrinkles were innumerable. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Their force has long passed away--Age has no pleasures, wrinkles have no influence, revenge itself dies away in impotent curses. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He had thick bushy eyebrows, with little twinkling bloodshot eyes, surrounded by a thousand wrinkles. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mrs. Peniston was a small plump woman, with a colourless skin lined with trivial wrinkles. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Stretch them on a bosom-board, and with a damp cloth rub out all the wrinkles. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Did you notice any wrinkles over my nose this evening, Pa? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She found us here; and presented her uncongenial cheek, the little wrinkles in it filled with hair powder, to Dora to be kissed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Edited by Gail