"Prink" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... round the circle; and within this not very brilliant illumination, the cadets dance with each other to the excellent music of the band. Those who personate ladies, take hold of their little bob-tailed jackets, and prink and mince, and take fine airs upon themselves, and look so precisely like fine ladies, that the real fine ladies looking at them, want to give ...
— The Fairy Nightcaps • Frances Elizabeth Barrow
... all right. There's never anybody but muckers there Saturday nights. We'll miss it all if you stop to prink." ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... be at the pains to follow me to the rescue of my child! Your little cousin, poor innocent, may be eaten by the beasts for aught you care, while you prink over trinkets." ...
— Helmet of Navarre • Bertha Runkle
... will be careful never to admit the fact, especially to himself. He will value ceremony, but rather for its comeliness than for its utility, as one esteeming the lily, say, to be a more applaudable bulb than the onion. He will prink; and he will be at his best after sunset. He will dare to acknowledge the shapeliness of a thief's leg, to contend that the commission of murder does not necessarily impair the agreeableness of the assassin's conversation; and to insist that at bottom God is kindlier ...
— Gallantry - Dizain des Fetes Galantes • James Branch Cabell
... for I like to think That mayflowers, crimson, white and pink, When I am dust the boughs shall prink, On days to live and die for; That sun and cloud, as now, shall veer, And streams run tumbling off the weir, Where still the mottled trout rolls clear For other ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914 • Various
... announced, the town—in utter ignorance of the conspiracy—went into convulsions. The half-dozen old maids in upper circles who had long since given up hope began to prink and perk themselves into an amazing state of rejuvenation,—revival, you might say. They tortured themselves with the hope that never dies. They even lent money to impecunious gentlemen who couldn't believe their senses and went ...
— Her Weight in Gold • George Barr McCutcheon |
