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Usage examples of rumple.

He was even more rumpled and bearish seeming than he had been the previous night, wider than the door he stood before and hunched over like some sodden jungle shrub.

A rumpled and besmudged young man wearing a Standing Bear blazon upon his torn sleeve, Fredrick of Brevory, trailed the fur trapper, tethered to him by a long leather rope.

Mrs Coltart took Bridie by the arm and guided her to the rumpled bed where they both sat.

To the south, behind the camp, the rumpled gray hills rose to obscure the horizon until they merged with the mandibular teeth of the glacier-patched western mountains.

But turning to her child to still his crying, she saw the tiny exquisite hands waving in rage and the dark down rumpled on the monkeyish little skull, and the black eyes in which all the beauty and high temper that were afterwards to be Richard were condensed, and she ran to him.

Later in the spring and summer, when the cheerful, perspiratory tourists flooded in, the lobby floor would be littered with tracked mud, cigar stubs, rumpled newspapers, and chewing-gum wrappers, wearily dealt with by insufficient bell-boys.

Within an hour I was introduced to a rumpled, shaggy, and bespectacled transfer student, who, I was told, whiled away most of his days in the well-equipped photography lab.

She was small and brown-haired, in a rumpled uniform, taking painstaking aim with a recoilless pistol.

Kara, her black hair rumpled down her back, flushed with anger and working at untying and ungagging her mother.

August morning, you a creature of light and I a middle-aged man in a rumpled suit.

When he was met by a look almost as blank as the black eyes gazing heavenward, he reached into the front of his rumpled shirt.

His gaze touched upon the rumpled bed and the blotchy evidence of her lost virtue without pause.

Pulling together a tight smile, he set her down and rumpled her hair with a gentle hand.

It was hard to settle down in the big bed alone, especially when the sheets were already more than a little rumpled from their passing passion.

He clicked off the phone and hurled it onto his rumpled, unmade king-size bed.