prinking

Maidie stared up at him, lost in amazement, unable either to speak or move as she felt his fingers moving deftly in her hair, running through her curls, and prinking them.

Gatlinburg 2010

‘You shall not be my reader,’ Semyon Matveitch announced to me at last, prinking and setting himself to rights in a repulsive way.

The Jew and other stories 2006

Sky like the inside of a saucepan and a mean little drizzle stinging your face, garden sunk deep in midwinter gloom, except for the winter-flowering cherry trees with small, sugar-pink blossoms prinking from bare branches to lift the heart.

John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2006

"No, I ken what you mean by that-Roger Mac showed me the wee picture ye drew for Jem, all tiny things like dragonflies, prinking in the flowers" He made an uncouth noise in the back of his throat.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

I always have felt sorry for you children, with no mother but only Ruth to bring you up — and she for ever prinking before her glass.

Growing Pains 2003

He was very sweet, very happy apparently. but flew in, such a butterfly — such a dandy, and kept prinking before the looking-glass.

The Insulted and the Injured 2003

No use prinking me mustache, the thing is preened to death.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

No use prinking me mustache, the thing is preened to death.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

‘Why are you preening and prinking?’ says I. ‘I am ready to do anything to please you, Tit Vassilitch!’

Crime and Punishment 2002

'Not prinking English popinjay families with too much bloody money.'

Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997