What is "puckered"

Usage examples of "puckered".

For one thing, there was a subtle, indefinable sense of limitless antiquity and utter alienage which affected one like a view from the brink of a monstrous abyss of unplumbed blackness - but mostly it was the expression of crazed fear on the puckered, prognathous, half-shielded face.

Seeing her full breasts with their dark puckered nipples topping rosy areolas made his mouth water.

Through lowered lashes she could see her flushed breasts rise and fall with every deep breath, the pink nipples standing erect, the areolas puckered and tight.

The cicatrix was puckered, purple at its edges, a livid white at the center.

The woman who had defecated on the grass of the airing court had devised a dance of her own: she made a trancelike pattern with both arms held out in front of her, as though perhaps rocking a large child in her arms, while her face, in which the mouth was puckered inward over blackened gums, was stretched by an expression of concentrated wonder.

Her dextrier puckered up her mouth to spitsear when the enormous moth crossed the air between them too fast even to see and clasped the handlingers to it, slobbering like a famished man.

Quite suddenly, they were a line like a military division, five blindfolded dextriers facing slightly down, their mouths puckered ready to spitsear.

As Ganner stood gaping helplessly, the puckered mouth on the wall suddenly yawned into a hatchway that opened on an enormous vaulted hall beyond.

Her hands were sweating under them, and would likely be puckered, but at least they would not be dry and flaky and itchy at work on Monday.

Its mouth was merely a jawless, circular opening, now puckered and closed.

Susi Kater, the only girl in the tent, puckered up her mouth with disappointment and bitterness when the frogs vanished ingloriously into the soup without the slightest attempt at a swan song or a last jump.

His teeth were gone, and their going had lengthened his dented chin, made the mouth into a puckered gash below that unmistakable nose with the slight crease in its tip.

Hir eyebrows puckered questioningly, but Slon was as readable as a rock.

Her teeny face was still and puckered inside her silver veil, and her color went from blood to beet to almost purple.

He saw, something he had, overlooked then, the sinister line of the black wall encircling the city, and for an instant he thought he saw the puckered face of the usherette, also gilded, superimposed on the golden buildings, and it seemed to him that the imprisoning wall was a wall around her and her only.