Joy answered with a toss of her head and a puckered-up grin. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
With her little Chinese eyes and her puckered-up face, she would never marry; one could not take her painting very seriously; she was an independent little creature, and Mrs Ramsay liked her for it; so, remembering her promise, she bent her head. From Wordnik.com. [To the Lighthouse] Reference
The class truly left everyone puckered-up for more. From Wordnik.com. [North Lake Tahoe Bonanza - Top Stories] Reference
He had Abe's puckered-up lips and Abe's steady sad eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of the King] Reference
"Not always!" returned Dot, with a woe-begone, puckered-up face. From Wordnik.com. [Esther : a book for girls] Reference
"He looks like a skinned rabbit with a puckered-up old-man's face.". From Wordnik.com. [A Farewell To Arms]
He stared with puckered-up eyes round the vault, and then lifted up from the floor a handful of something that glittered. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Jungle Book] Reference
He neither growled nor wagged his tail, but it seemed to me that the expression of his aged, puckered-up little face was the incarnation of malevolence. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Secret] Reference
I see him now before me with his thin, erect, lathy figure, his snub nose, and puckered-up face, wriggling and twisting himself about, in his desire to please his customers. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference
Hazel set the lamp on a table, and turning to the bundle of blankets which filled this new piece of furniture, drew back one corner, revealing a round, puckered-up infant face. From Wordnik.com. [North of Fifty-Three] Reference
Demi tore downstairs, and returned with the cream, also a puckered-up face, for he had tasted it on his way, and found it so sour that he predicted the cakes would be uneatable. From Wordnik.com. [Little Men] Reference
I think I see him now before me with his thin, erect, lathy figure, his snub nose, and puckered-up face, wriggling and twisting himself about, in his desire to please his customers. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference
That this weird, white, puckered-up mass could be the producer or transmitter of all that made man, that it controlled our physical strength and growth, and our responses to life, that it made one into "Mad G." and another into me -- why, it was absolutely marvellous. From Wordnik.com. [A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell] Reference
Vash ran in and out from the garden, and brought balsamine blossoms, from which she pulled the little fairy slippers, and tried to match them in pairs; and she picked off the "used-up and puckered-up" morning glories, which she blew into at the tube-end, and "snapped" on the back of her little brown hand. From Wordnik.com. [Real Folks] Reference
There alighted therefrom, first the superintendent, and then the over-dressed figure with the lank, fair hair and the fresh-coloured, insipid countenance of as perfect a specimen of the genus sap-head as you could pick up anywhere between John o 'Groat's and Land's End. A flower was in his buttonhole, a monocle in his eye, and the gold head of his jointed walking-stick was sucked into the red eyelet of his puckered-up lips. From Wordnik.com. [Cleek, the Master Detective] Reference
A puckered-up mouth, gazing at him with half-closed but piercingly dark eyes!. From Wordnik.com. [The Hot Swamp] Reference
Why, I wouldn't once look at another woman anywhere, not even in Mars, and most certainly not in that puckered-up old world that we have just left, happily for us. ". From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Dahl takes this to an extreme, describing his villains 'repulsive attributes with brio: Mr. Hazell's "great, glistening, beery face ... as pink as a ham," in "Danny, the Champion of the World" (1975); Aunt Sponge's resemblance to "a great white soggy overboiled cabbage"; the "grizzly old grunion of a grandma" in "George's Marvelous Medicine" (1981) -- the one Dahl book I find irredeemably sour -- who has "a small puckered-up mouth, like a dog's bottom.". From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: July 17, 2005 - July 23, 2005 Archives] Reference
Her conversations with strange men had been confined to such things as, "Will you please tell me the nearest way to --?" but preposterously enough -- she could not for the life of her have told why -- frowning upon this huge American -- fat was the literal word -- who stood there with puckered-up face swinging the flaming hose would seem in the same shameful class with snubbing the little boy who confidently asked her what kind of ribbon to buy for his mother. From Wordnik.com. [Lifted Masks; stories] Reference
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