A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.
The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowing; the expression of displeasure, sullennes, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
A rain was falling, and we saw the drops fall into plashes, and the plashes were wrinklingunder their blows.
A wrinkling in the skin of the earth exposed the granite, a wrinkling so gradual that doubtless if generations of men had lived on top of the wrinkle they would have sworn it did not move.
I was in the boat with Cavarly, and saw him gazing at the distant shore and wrinkling his brow and pulling his beard.
When I got through he was pulling at his long mustache and wrinkling his nose as I've seen a bulldog do when he was getting ready to bite something.
The boss looked up with the little horse-shoe frown wrinkling between his eyes.
When the hall door below gave a big slam to let us know that he was still going, the boss looked across at me with a sour grin wrinkling around his eyes.
At this the people laugh, and with wrinkling nose the brawny[1375] youth loudly re-echo the hearty peals of laughter.
But let anger subside from your nose, and the wrinkling sneer; while I pluck out those old wives' fables from your breast.
I see you got one those patent neck-capes that prevents wrinkling below the coat-collar.
S the only way to do," said Bean, wrinklinghis forehead, "have everything clear.
But when they came out the child carried nothing more than a wicker cage containing two pink-eyed white rabbits that were wrinkling their noses furiously.
Dotty, wrinkling her brows anxiously; "does it, now truly?
She threw her arms about Mrs. Parlin's neck, wrinkling her collar and tumbling her veil.
Jimmie's only reply was a wrinkling of his freckled nose in a grimace of extreme disgust and contempt.
He winked rapidly to clear his tear-filled eyes, and indulged in another wrinkling of the nose.
Jimmie, wrinkling his freckled nose and blinking at the officer as he sparred for time.
He kept sighing and wrinkling his brows, as though in deep rumination on a matter far removed from the stumpage question.
He watched her scurry down the street with satisfaction wrinklingunder his beard.
And the set of his jaws and the wrinkling of his forehead showed that the duel between him and Colonel Ward was not yet over.
The wrinkling of the glacier here was quite visible, the dwindling of the wrinkles into bands, and the subdivision of these bands into lines which mark the edges of the laminae of which the glacier at this place is made up.
She is like a flower that has grown up among weeds," muttered the great man, his thoughts far away, a frown wrinkling his brow.
Month of May," recited the boy wrinkling his brows in order to better concentrate his mind.
The boy was seated on the ground before a pile of red clay which he was carefully modeling, wrinkling his brow, and whistling intently.
Hannibal was silent, wrinkling his brows as if fearing he had said too much.
It needed not even speech; she smiled and nodded at Zacharias, and he came to her at once with a grin of pleasure wrinkling his ancient face.
The proffered smoke brought a wrinkling of amazed delight into the face of Ephraim and his withered hand stretched tentatively forth.
The financial secretary's smile was the self-congratulatory face-wrinkling of the quarry foreman who has seen his tackle hitch hold to land the big stone safely at the top of the pit.
Not him," said the round-faced villain, with the ingratiating smile wrinkling at the corners of the fat-embedded eyes.
Jimmie commented, wrinkling his freckled nose, "if you should ever furnish an item for your daddy's newspaper he'd never live it down!
Jimmie, wrinkling his freckled nose until it did not seem possible to ever get it out straight again, "what was it you said his name was?
Not in the least," he returned, with the old-time, boyish smile wrinkling at the corners of his fine eyes.
There was a half-quizzical smilewrinkling at the corners of the quiet gray eyes.
Mrs. Lankhurst had a way of screwing up her eyes, and wrinkling her forehead.
He examined it gravely, his brows contracting, a sudden wrinkling at the corners of his lips that might have meant laughter, or disapproval, or anything.
Well, it would make you sick," declared Connie, wrinkling up her nose to express her disgust.
But she no longer speaks to Elsie aboutwrinkling her forehead or showing her boot-soles.
Emaciation, wrinkling of the skin, dryness and falling out of the hair, decay of the teeth, are not as a rule part of the picture of nervous dyspepsia.
The object of the back-stick is to keep the stock from wrinkling as it is stretched toward the edge of the disk.
The wedge-shaped pieces shown in this illustration are used when breaking down or roughing shells to give a bearing to the metal in order to prevent it from wrinkling or buckling when changing its formation.
