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Usage examples of crisp.

Despite years in the Line Marines he still spoke with the crisp accents of his native Churchill.

A South American berimbau, a set of golden vibes, a crisp, prewar Martin guitar.

She had hot chocolate and crisp rolls, sitting up in bed, and after she had washed the woman brought her an assortment of gowns, skirts and low-necked camisas to choose from.

A chilly, implacable kind of fury that steadied his hands and straightened his spine, made his crisp footsteps soft along the carpeted hallways.

Satisfied with his selection, he handed her the crisp chenin blanc and invited her to drink.

The boy looked as cool and crisp in his chequy tunic as Ser Eustace had in his cloak.

With her chopsticks Cat picked up the last crisp curl of skin and savored it.

The sliced vegetables were cooked to perfection, still crisp and crunchy, and I pushed them around in the little white cardboard box with my chopsticks, looking for more chicken.

The snow-fields were like the vast Arctic ice-fields that Kane looked on, and lay sparkling under the moonlight, crisp and Christmasy, and all the crystals on the trees and bushes hung glistening, as if ready, at a breath of air, to break out into metallic ringing, like a million silver joy-bells.

Strai, a keen-eyed man with rusty-red hair, gave the two Talents a crisp and respectful bow, and then swung round to the two comformable seats that looked out of place in the room.

In mid-September, as the nights and mornings are growing crisp and cool and the deer are retreating from the roads and orchards into the densest brush they can find, it seems to us that the music of the coydogs, as they are mistakenly called, is the music of all the broken and hunted creatures who survive and persist and will not be eliminated.

She had also a mop of crisp black curls and a curvaceousness which he liked to admire with frankness she found annoying.

She went to the kitchen, put the kettle on to boil, fetched the ginger root from the crisper of the fridge and the Demerara sugar in its cookie tin from the cupboard, along with the nutmeg.

Crisp in his surcoat cut of silk, Lord Diegan regarded the town delegate in shaken, heartsore humility.

At any moment, quick beams of ruby light played this way and that, fairly hissing through the air and instantly crisping the various mosquitoes, gnats, and grass flies so despised by the Farfara merchants.