"Curl up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... trace of the fixing bath has been removed, the prints may be taken from the water and dried between sheets of chemically-pure blotting paper. They will not curl up when dried in this way, as they do when simply exposed ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 • Various
... he, in a voice that left no room for argument, "now, you curl up in the tiger-skin and go to sleep! ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England
... listening. It was a small sheet of water; the other shore, swampy and skirted with white-flowering bushes and young trees, looked very near; a cloying, honey sweetness came across, and a silvery smoke of mist was beginning to curl up from it. The frogs were clamorous, and every now and then came the bass boom of a bull-frog. A red light from the westward sun came through the thin growth opposite, and lay over the pond and the shore. Little swarms of gnats danced ...
— Jerome, A Poor Man - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... never!" she answered emphatically; "never such a darling as this, at all events! His little cheek is just like velvet; and, see! he can curl up his hands! Isn't it wonderful, Don? He's like you, too. I'm sure ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... father, interrupting him, you give that sentence a very improper accent; for you curl up your nose, man, and read it with such a sneering tone, as if the Parson was going ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne
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