"Crumpled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the ground. "Madeline, do you mean it?" he asked, scarcely audibly, his face grown white and pinched. She crumpled the obnoxious glove ...
— Dr. Heidenhoff's Process • Edward Bellamy
... of paper with writing upon it was crumpled up in the handkerchief, and spreading this ...
— A Countess from Canada - A Story of Life in the Backwoods • Bessie Marchant
... wavered an instant like a drunken person, then all at once crumpled into a heap on the floor, where ...
— Juggernaut • Alice Campbell
... execute a temporary governmental commission, and was under the command of Governor-General Zonnenberg, to whom he was distantly related. Panshin's father, a staff-captain of cavalry on the retired list, a famous gambler, a man with a crumpled visage and a nervous twitching of the lips, had passed his whole life in the society of people of quality, had frequented the English Clubs in both capitals, and bore the reputation of an adroit, not very trustworthy, ...
— A Nobleman's Nest • Ivan Turgenieff
... placed came a second flash of light and a beam of jetty blackness shot through the air. An edge of it brushed the ship for an instant and Lura stiffened. A terrible cold bit through the flyer and the side where the Martian ray had touched crumpled into powder. The ship sped on, and the friction of the air and the bright rays of the sun dissipated the extreme cold. Through the terrific storm which was raging, the black ray stabbed again and again. Back and forth it played and ship after ship of the Jovians was momentarily ...
— Giants on the Earth • Sterner St. Paul Meek
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