crinklings

As he sat on the bench if a lady passed him with her shoulders back and head up, and looked straight to the front, as if she did not care if all the world did gaze on her, then he studied her bonnet, and by the time it was out of sight he know the shape of the frame, the color of the trimmings, and the crinklings in the feather.

Acres of Diamonds 2008

Only an experienced needlewoman could do justice in words to such a variety of rimplings and crinklings, of pleatings and puckerings, of gaugings, rufflings, gofferings, and pin-tuckings as it is possible to find; though somebody with a knowledge of heraldry could perhaps convey a few of the designs in such terms as nebuly, raguly or dancetty (semée, he might add, of starfish proper).

Try Anything Twice 1938

As he sat on the bench if a lady passed him with her shoulders back and head up, and looked straight to the front, as if she did not care if all the world did gaze on her, then he studied her bonnet, and by the time it was out of sight he knew the shape of the frame, the color of the trimmings, and the crinklings in the feather.

Acres of Diamonds Conwell, Russell H 1915

As he sat on the bench if a lady passed him with her shoulders back and head up, and looked straight to the front, as if she did not care if all the world did gaze on her, then he studied her bonnet, and by the time it was out of sight he knew the shape of the frame, the color of the trimmings, and the crinklings in the feather.

Acres of Diamonds and His Life and Achievements 1915

Little nervous crinklings began at the roots of his hair and descended his spine -- that scratching, faint, yet vigorous, did it come from beyond the veil?

Bunker Bean Harry Leon Wilson 1903

Down the stairs they tripped, with rustlings of silk and crinklings of muslin, dainty white shoes, looking daintier than ever against the well-worn carpet.

Pixie O'Shaughnessy George de Horne Vaizey 1887

As he sat on the bench if a lady passed him with her shoulders back and head up, and looked straight to the front, as if she did not care if all the world did gaze on her, then he studied her bonnet, and by the time it was out of sight he knew the shape of the frame, the color of the trimmings, and the crinklings in the feather.

Acres of Diamonds: our every-day opportunities Russell Herman Conwell 1884

It looked like miles and miles of green rumpled velvet, full of dainty crinklings, mottled with pale maroon, and cuir, purple, and cream-color.

The Hallam Succession Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

Boiled-cauliflower nose in a flabby face veined with purple crinklings.

Following the Equator, Part 5 Mark Twain 1872

Boiled-cauliflower nose in a flabby face veined with purple crinklings.

Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872