He held the paper in the left, crumpled and crushed by the convulsive pressure of his grasp.
He flung himself at full length upon the stunted grass, and taking the crumpled paper from his breast, unfolded it and smoothed it out before him.
Mr. Hargraves fumbled in his pockets for some minutes, and ultimately produced a dirty scrap of crumpled paper.
She looked at Chiu-Ming--and I knew that to her the sight of the crumpled form carried no recognition of the human, nothing of kin to her.
The muskets flashed and the man crumpled in a heap on the soft young grass, the blood pouring from his breast in a bright red pool beside the quivering form.
The door had scarcely closed, when the trembling figure crumpled on the lounge in a flood of bitter tears.
Houses crumpledlike egg-shells and fires began to blaze.
Without support the shattered lines were crushed and crumpled and rolled back in confusion.
The Union right wing had already been crumpled in hopeless confusion, the centre had yielded, the left wing alone was holding its own.
Messenger crumpled in the folding like a paper that has just been read.
Disturbed, she examined this rough, crumpled card, this unknown name: "Heurteux.
Spots on the crumpled satins, ashes staining the beautiful marbles, dirty footmarks on the carpets.
She sat down in the window-seat, and I showed her proudly what was crumpled in my warm little fist.
When she fell asleep tired, he sat solemnly beside her, holding hercrumpled hand.
He crumpled it into his pocket hurriedly, as though he feared that she would snatch it from him.
They loved the feel of little crumpled fingers against their throats and the warmth of a tiny body cuddled against their breasts.
And now, why, the Madonna was crumpledup almost double in her convulsive grasp.
Philippina crumpled the envelope, and looked vacantly at the fireplace.
The Blessed Madonna in Britannia metal on the oval pendant, ever faithful at a pinch, almost crumpled in her grasp as she looked and started.
Snatching from her bag a crumpled note, she tossed it on the desk, calling back: "Here.
He drew from a crumpled envelope that familiar tiny string of fire and offered it to the witness.
John stooped and recovered the crumpled square of yellow, smoothed its wrinkles reverently, and fastened it again and more securely upon the wall above him.
His shoulders shook, and then his legs crumpled under him; he was on his knees and sinking lower and lower, like a man beaten down, blow upon blow, until at length he lies prostrate before his foes.
John read the note twice, crumpled it in his hand, and walked slowly down Geary Street to Market and down Market Street to the ferry.
John rose abruptly, snatched the legend from the wall, crumpledit as he had the envelope, and cast it on the floor.
But the proud, stern father had crumpled and died.
Beneath Mr. Burns's feet, and strewn broadcast about the room, were the crumpled sheets of the afternoon papers.
The latter rose, then staggered, and, half sliding through the woman's sheltering embrace, crumpled limply into a massive upholstered chair.
Just at the rise of the plane, the wheel on the left side had crumpled and now swung a useless, dangerous mass beneath the ship.
The Colonel's hands crumpled some papers in a tense grasp.
He read the letter again and then in an agony hecrumpled it to a ball and hurled it across the room.
He paused, crumpled the letter between his hands, and threw it in M.
The whole assembly shuddered when Martial, in his wrath, flung the crumpled letter full in the Marquis de Courtornieu’s face.
She might even now be lying all crumpled and shattered in a tangle of wreckage.
And so Crofts, bending close to remove the crab-shells, noted the grief-crumpled face and the drench of tears; his mind went back to the time when Willie Enslee was a child and wept in a high chair in his nursery.
For I don't believe he crumpled right down, and sot down forever on them golden streets.
Justice and Woman has too long been crumpled down, and trod on.
Again the round head nodded acquiescence, as with much writhing and twisting he succeeded in drawing a heterogeneous collection of articles from his pocket, whence he selected a very dirty and crumpled piece of paper.
With which lucid explanation Ben handed me the crumpled note.
In utter panic I rushed back into my bedroom, and flung myself into the crumpled shirt and evening clothes that lay where I had cast them off.
He withdrew a hand from either pocket of his crumpled dinner-jacket, and opened the pair under my nose.
A grim smile crumpled up the parchment face, so that one eye was puckered out of sight; the other was propped open by an eyeglass, which, however, dangled on its string when I appeared.
Cause this 'ere's for you," he rejoined to my affirmative, and with that I felt a crumplednote in my palm.
He sat down again on the edge of the bunk, a crumpled heap, inert and silent, his eyes dulled by a fear beyond any he had yet known.
The voice broke; the frail body crumpled and slipped to the floor.
True, you already told me you had come from Orleans;" saying which he crumpled Manicamp's letter in his hand, and thrust it in his pocket.
And he crumpled up in his pocket the paper he had so cleverly seized.
She lay in a little crumpled heap crushing the sweetness of the narcissi.
She was in the kitchen garden one morning just beside the gatehouse showing Bele for the thousandth time how to trench the peas without burying them, when a crumpled old man in a rough cap with a basket under his arm, limped through the gate.
She seated herself in the silly chair and began to make something like order out of the mess of crumpled things before her.
She sunk in a crumpled heap and rested her weary head on the window sill, then groped for the wee doggie as she heard the faint click of its tiny paws coming toward her over the bare floor.
She had rubbed over her face, which shone in streaks, and her handkerchief was still crumpled in her hand.
And she bent her full moon of a face and went, with her apron crumpled as apron had never been, and tears in her eyes.
Then, as he crumpled up the paper on which he had been figuring, I caught a glimpse of the other side of it.
The old sailor produced a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket.
Like a fire-swept weed Turner crumpled to the floor, his rifle exploding as he fell.
As Silver Tip, in regal majesty, swung his huge form about, Rob crumpled up in a heap and lay senseless on the hot ground.
Several of the leaders crumpled up and fell to the ground, mortally wounded.
Thus a strong bank-note paper may be crumpled up between the fingers three or four hundred times without tearing, while an imitation art paper is broken up when crumpled three or four times.
If a piece of paper is crumpled up, placed in a small crucible, and then ignited until all the carbonaceous matter has been burnt off, a residue is left in the crucible which may be white or coloured.
It was in the first shadows of the evening, when a soiled bit of paper doing crumpled duty as a card was brought me.
Then he crumpled to the ground in a weltering heap; dead on the instant, too, for the point had pierced the spine.
