Why didn't I tell the good wife that the ponies put the crimp in my pocketbook instead of crawling into this chasm of prevarication and trouble?
Something keeps telling me that a month on the farm will put a crimp in our happiness, and that the moment we move into a home in the tall grass ill luck will get up and put the boots to our wedded bliss.
I didn't mind one or two, or perhaps a few more men, so much, but the crowd threw a crimp into me.
We shall crimp and cool a salmon, if we catch a good one, for our dinner.
This will be a good addition to our dinner: I will crimp him, that you may compare boiled sea trout with broiled, and with salmon.
Kill him and crimp him, fisherman; take our two trout, and the three perch, to the kitchen, and let them be dressed as usual.
Directly or indirectly, he sure has put a crimp in county politics.
Rale, this sort of puts a crimp in the notion that Bill Wingo held up the stage.
They did put a crimp in your plans, sort of," assented Larder.
Rubbin' out Tom would most likely put a crimp in her, sort of.
A big owner with so much money he could bed his horses in it, and an ingrowing grouch that has put a crimp in his information works.
It was one o' those nights when everything is so still that you hear with the inside of your head, an' any little real noise fair puts a crimp in ya.
Which election had put heart into the more decent set and a crimp in the Currycomb.
Stick the square end into the cap until it touches the fulminate, and crimp down the copper shell all round with a dull knife to hold the fuse.
Can't you see how a killing thisaway, and a fellah like Morgan, too, would maybe put a crimp in this place for good?
My neck got a permanentcrimp from keeping one eye behind me.
Pick the straw with the crimp in the end--I can do that, even if I can't push one out further again.
It's a fine little town and I'm glad to be good, but crimp my hair if I don't feel lonesome at times.
As for the women of virtue, it will not be difficult for me to find them about midnight at crimpand basset.
Our grandmothers, though they were wont to sit up the last in the family, were all of them fast asleep at the same hours that their daughters are busy at crimp and basset.
I've got to put a crimp in it, and you've got to help me.
It's almost worth while being here, to see a crimp work at the dredges.
That little rascal, Artie Jenkins, is the meanestcrimp in Baltimore!
While the crimp was to the merchant service what the press-gang was to the Navy, a kind of universal provider, there was in his method of preying upon the sailor a radical difference.
In whatever waters a British man-o'-war cast anchor, there the crimp appeared, plying his crafty trade.
Where the press-gang used the hanger or the cudgel, the crimpemployed dollars.
We spotted Bert because he's with the Marines, at that place where they put a crimpin the Huns the other day when they were going to walk into Paris.
I'll show him how to put a crimp in 'em if they don't turn up here to-morrow morning.
There's something about this cloth top and white gaiter craze that's puttin' a crimp in her perfectly good plans.
But you might hint to him that if another big strike is pulled it's apt to be a long one, and in that case the movie business will get a crimp put in it.
I meant to put a crimp in the vanity of that free-information bureau.
They load up to that certain place and they crimpinto that groove, which is known as a crimping groove.
The amount of bark in each crimp and the location of the crimps fore-and-aft would determine the shape of the bottom profile and the amount of rocker, as well as the flatness of the bottom athwartships in the midbody.
One requirement in building these canoes was to crimp the edges of the bark at the gunwales in such manner that the bottom of the canoe would be rockered and at the same time would be moulded athwartships.
In placing the outwales, the crimps were carefully formed and held by the clamping action of the inwale and outwale, and reinforced by a lashing through the crimp or by two lashings close to the sides of the fold.
That he's been caught in the trick puts a crimp in him," chuckled Chet Belding.
She'd put a crimpin anything," declared Bobby Hargrew, as the Hill girls went home that afternoon.
In emergencies like these the hero always takes a cold bath and changes his clothes before sallying forth to put a crimp in the villain's plans.
You're sweet on the girl, and I don't wish to put a crimp in your young romance by showing her up in her true colours.
He's influential enough to put a crimp in the team, though, and to put a crimp in us in particular, by getting the board to have us kicked off the eleven just when we're needed most.
