...plegar, to curl, purse, curve... 
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
... Robespierre's sensuous lips curl into a sarcastic smile...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
... Robespierre's lips curl in satisfaction, showing a row of yellowish teeth, long and sharp like the fangs of a wolf...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
..."You think so?" the Seer replied, with a curious curl of the lip...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
...While we were at work making a pathway, the dogswould curl up and lie down with their noses in their tails, and wewould have to come back and start them, which was always the signal fora fight or two...
Matthew A. Henson 「A Negro Explorer at the North Pole」
...The leaves are narrow and inclined to curl, and lie close to the ground...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...Hold the scented animal in the smoke for about five minutes, using care to keep it away from the fire or the heat will curl the hair...
Elmer Harry Kreps 「Science of Trapping」
...By asharp growl or a menacing curl of the lips, Ladsilenced the youngster's clamorous salvo when aguest or tradesman entered The Place, whether onfoot or in a car...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Lad: A Dog」
...The serrated—notched, like the teeth of a saw—edge of wool, whichhas been discovered by means of the microscope, is also, as well as thespiral curl, deemed an important quality in the felting property...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...The curl of the plumage on the neck comes closer to the head than thaton common geese, and the abdominal pouch, which, in other varieties, isan accompaniment of age, exists from the shell...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...They curl under at the edges so that we do notsee their whole width, and the barbs crowd sothickly upon each other that they over-lie untilthey present an edge three or four broad...
Fannie Hardy Eckstorm 「The Woodpeckers」
...Hooking one of his antennætowards him with one of his free claws, he takes it between hismandibles in order to curl it and moisten it with saliva...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...Some of them are cut into variousfigures, and painted and used as toys; for they curl up when placed inthe palm of a warm hand...
George Vasey 「Delineations of the Ox Tribe」
...and said that was where Sponge would have to curl himself up, our friendshook his head, and declared he could not...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...“Not a bit, sir; been cut too many times to keep it short, and all the curl got cut off, ha, ha, ha!” And the big, burly fellow burst into a boisterous laugh...
George Manville Fenn 「Dead Man's Land」
...When the Coyotes, or small white wolves, of Mexico, lose all hope ofescape, they curl themselves up and await death...
R. Lee 「Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals」
...Soon a thin curl of smoke was seen drifting southward, winding in and out among the piñons; then another on the north side...
Edward S. Curtis 「The North American Indian」
...All the thin varieties of bromide paper curl badly in drying...
John A. Tennant 「Bromide Printing and Enlarging」
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