Again he felt the western breeze, With scent of flowers and crisping hay; And down again through wind-stirred trees He saw the quivering sunlight play.
Let Sacramento's herdsmen heed what sound the winds bring down Of footsteps on the crisping snow, from cold Nevada's crown!
As a result, Thanksgiving was ushered in to the merry jingle of sleigh bells, with cutters crisping their way over the icy surfaces of the roads.
Gyp, crisping her fingers on the reins, drew-in deep breaths.
But she talked and smiled; and no one could have told that her nerves were crisping as if at contact with a corpse.
None the less was she offended, as a flower by a crisping wind.
She also lay white and twisting on a couch, crisping and uncrisping her little hands.
A keen little wind is out, crisping the surface of the sea in patches--a pretty large crisping to be seen from that height, for the window looks over hill above hill to the sea.
I could have eaten five meals during every twenty-four hours since we started," acknowledged Rachel, as she watched with flattering attention the crisping slices of venison that were accumulating on a platter by the fire.
When Rachel re-entered the room, a moment later, a letter was crisping into black curls in the fire-place, and the man sat watching it moodily.
A bright sunny morning, the trees all bowing and bending, and the water chafing and crisping under a fresh, strong, but not cold, wind.
Some of the later types of crisping or creasing machines double the cloth lengthwise as illustrated in Fig.
From time to time a slow torsion and crisping of all his nerves, beginning at his ankles, spread to every corner of his body till he had to shut his fists and teeth against the blind impulse to leap from his bed screaming.
The clouds, which rolled fleecy and white in piles and crenulated bastions of cumulus, lighted the eyes of the man and maid as they went onward upon the crisping piny carpet of fallen fir-needles.
Half hidden by the shawl he could feel the crispingof the curls under his fingers.
The same peculiar crisping or crackling sound, which I noted on the 2d of February, was heard this morning in every direction.
I venture, therefore, to refer this peculiar crisping sound to the unequal contraction and dilatation of these unequally presenting surfaces, not to a sudden change of atmospheric temperature acting upon the snow.
Defn: The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling.
He dragged in log after log, piled them on the fire until the flames leaped tip to the crisping needles of the limbs above, and heaped a supply close at hand for use later in the night.
The stars began to glow white and metallic, and from far in the North there came faintly a crisping moaning sound, like steel sleigh-runners running over frosty snow--the mysterious monotone of the Northern Lights.
He thought of the little tight curlscrisping so heart-breakingly about the ears of his love, and also of the grave which had been dug so deep under the sand-hills of Lis.
The sun had fully risen when, still led by the girl, they issued out upon the outermost sea edge, and heard the waves crisping and chattering on a curving beach of pebble.
Bellaroba snivelled, but she was scornful under her cloak, and no word passed between the pair until they were in the great blunt-nosed barge, heading against a crisping tide for Chioggia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crisping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
