"Rumple" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... He was of the school of Bernini. He followed the sculptors who infinitely prefer unrest to repose in art. He dearly enjoyed a tour de force in stone. He liked to deal with marble as though it were the most plastic of materials: to twist it this way and that, and rumple and flutter it as though it were merely muslin. To have carved a wig in a gale of wind would have been a task particularly agreeable to this class of artists; they would have done their best to represent each particular hair standing on end. They adored minutiae: a shoulder-knot ...
— Art in England - Notes and Studies • Dutton Cook
... the love of a yawning husband, the actual presents herself, also yawning, in a dishabille without elegance, and a tumbled night-cap, that of last night and that of to-morrow night also,—"For really, monsieur, if you want a pretty cap to rumple every ...
— Ferragus • Honore de Balzac
... wrinkle; rumple, derange, disarrange, disorder; agitate, discompose, perturb, disconcert; ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... your best things are put on to-morrow, you must take care not to rumple or soil them before you appear in Mrs. Howard's presence; and when you come into her parlour you must stop at the door, and bow low and curtsey; and when you are desired to sit down, you must sit still till dinner is brought in; and when ...
— The Fairchild Family • Mary Martha Sherwood
... so dignified and important as she finished her little speech that irrepressible Charlotte longed to tickle her or rumple her hair, two things that the neat Dorothy loathed. As she couldn't she only said meekly, "Please, ma'am, are we to choose which we'd rather cook? If we ...
— Glenloch Girls • Grace M. Remick
... haven't enough sentiment to make me rumple my best white dress with a clumsy old ...
— Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party • C. E. Jacobs |
