Signs of ageing

Usage examples of wrinkles.

Some harpooneers will consume almost an entire morning in this business, carrying the line high aloft and then reeving it downwards through a block towards the tub, so as in the act of coiling to free it from all possible wrinkles and twists.

Suddenly, it struck Father Francis as sad that this boyish face would never wear wrinkles or laugh lines.

It is the same he died with, only some of the longer wrinkles in the forehead seem now faded away.

Such an enterprise would seem almost as hopeful as for Lavater to have scrutinized the wrinkles on the Rock of Gibraltar, or for Gall to have mounted a ladder and manipulated the Dome of the Pantheon.

The acute policy dictating these movements was sufficiently vindicated at daybreak, by the sight of a long sleek on the sea directly and lengthwise ahead, smooth as oil, and resembling in the pleated watery wrinkles bordering it, the polished metallic-like marks of some swift tide-rip, at the mouth of a deep, rapid stream.

He saw the vast, involved wrinkles of the slightly projecting head beyond.

I decided he must be some sort of mutant Sammy with some new wrinkles designed for this particular operation.

I seemed to see his whole face wrenching itself furiously free from beneath the makeup which bore the painted wrinkles and the false eyebrows.

She had ragged white hair sticking out from her head, and a million wrinkles on her face, and only a couple of teeth.