Clothing made of linen rumples very easily. From LearnThat.org.
Who'll rumple up the feathers of the cuckoo's nest. From Wordnik.com. [The Cuckoo's Nest (2)] Reference
"You throw it and rumple my best hair, if you dare.". From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
She turned to rumple the smooth light thatch of his hair. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Perhaps Clara had been afraid Peggy would rumple her dress. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy in Her Blue Frock] Reference
He flinched, afraid she was going to rumple his hair playfully. From Wordnik.com. [Codgerspace]
Madame -- (hastily) -- Not there, my dear, you will rumple my skirt. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I was once thinking to rumple up this billet till I had broken the seal. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Already he was regretting his boldness in presuming to rumple the Captain's bed. From Wordnik.com. [Greylorn] Reference
Then you sigh, rumple your hair, and put your feet on the desk to think for a while. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
Have to disagree with you on the choice of dress today, purely on the basis of rumple factor. From Wordnik.com. [Everything in Moderation - A Dress A Day] Reference
They have to make Bond the bad guy and don't get your knickers in a rumple, as they say in Britain. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2002] Reference
I have to smooth the sheets and covers and lie perfectly still beneath them, so as not to rumple them. From Wordnik.com. [janedoe0 Diary Entry] Reference
"The body and the mind are like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining, rumple the one and you rumple the other.". From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
She went back to her room, and was tempted to lie down, but then it would rumple her dress and spoil her hair. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Amber slowly stood up straight, and ran her hands down the tulle of her wedding dress, correcting a small rumple. From Wordnik.com. [It’s perfect « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts] Reference
I've got nary a line on my face and I'm now free to secretly eye the fissures that have started to rumple my friends 'faces. From Wordnik.com. [Verena von Pfetten: Tan Is The New Tacky] Reference
I've got nary a line on my face and I'm now free to secretly eye the fissures that have started to rumple my friends' faces. From Wordnik.com. [Verena von Pfetten: Tan Is The New Tacky] Reference
If you are one of those people whose finances prohibt you from staying in a hotel, then I completely understand...rumple away. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-06] Reference
The outermost 10 km of the glacier is mostly a floating mass of ice except at an ice rumple on the southern edge over a sub-glacial sill. From Wordnik.com. [Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland] Reference
Finally, after playing with the guy's hair all night, the gorilla puts him back in bed and gives his hair one last rumple before he leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Cadbury Ad With the Gorilla Playing Drums Isn't THAT Funny] Reference
"You must be careful not to rumple them if I let you.". From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Aroostook] Reference
Or some people rumple them up and make them totally rumpled. From Wordnik.com. [TheGloss] Reference
That her dress he thus did rumple,/avenged the lady grievously. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original] Reference
"I do think its unkind of you to rumple up my frock like that," said. From Wordnik.com. [Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World] Reference
"Better let it alone; I'll only rumple it some more!" he cried, ominously. From Wordnik.com. [In the Quarter] Reference
He allowed the man to stroke his head and rumple the thick fur on his back. From Wordnik.com. [Quill's Window] Reference
So she continued to playfully rumple his hair and kept her thoughts to herself. From Wordnik.com. [North of Fifty-Three] Reference
This was perhaps because she disliked to rumple her beautifully starched skirts. From Wordnik.com. [Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird] Reference
It is, perhaps, more difficult to rumple up a bed than to put it in order again. From Wordnik.com. [Crime d'Orcival. English] Reference
I like dancing very much better with girls, for they never squeeze and rumple one. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference
Yet every tweak, rumple, rustle is created, with hypnotising accomplishment, in wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Then Mother asks the rumple-haired baby, eight years old, to recite to the guest, and she declines. From Wordnik.com. [Nights in London] Reference
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