Example Sentences
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Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails.
From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.
He further carried this out afterwards in the application of the deeper coloured, and usually softer, varnishes, which when manipulated by other masters of the same school, have frizzled or cockled from some cause.
From Antonio Stradivari by Petherick, Horace William
She had a very sweet, kind face, all cockled with wrinkles like a sheet of crumpled tissue paper, but very beautiful in its age.
From The Dictator by McCarthy, Justin
I never grew weary, either, of gathering stately and graceful green ferns, and finding them all "cockled up," as the phrase went, when I got home.
From Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse by Abbot, Anne Wales
By them the oarage of the wind was taught, And how the quick tail steered the cockled boat.
From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John
