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  • "Oh, crinkums, look at this!" interrupted Pee-wee.

    Tom Slade at Temple Camp Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

  • "I always -- crinkums, anyway girls always seem to like me, that's one thing," he said.

    Tom Slade at Temple Camp Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

  • "Oh, crinkums, he knows some dandy Ford jokes, and his wrist is so strong from paddling that he can stick a shovel in the ground and turn it around with one hand; oh, he's got that paddle twist down fine, Roy; but, gee, he says you're all right; even before you came he said that; as soon as I told him who it was that signaled ----"

    Tom Slade at Temple Camp Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

  • "Oh, crinkums, I'm crazy to see Jeb Rushmore, aren't you?" said Pee-wee.

    Tom Slade at Temple Camp Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

  • Jiminy crinkums, I may be a nut (that's what the troop calls me anyway), but I'm not a freak and, believe me, when I saw who I was going to have dinner with that day -- _good night!

    Roy Blakely, Pathfinder Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

  • Madame's crinkums crankums, and they are so horridly good, it quite puts me out. "

    Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island Julia de Winton

  • Of course, maybe girls can't do so many things as boys -- I mean scouting-like -- but -- oh, crinkums, "he broke off in an ecstasy of joyous reflection.

    Tom Slade at Temple Camp Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

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