This was crumpled up with a hand-bill about a horse-fair in one of his tail-pockets, and represented the cost of three days' stay at an inn at Bilkley, where the fair was held—a town at least forty miles from Middlemarch.
" Raffles drew a crumpled paper from his pocket.
She thrust into his hand a crumpled piece of newspaper, and when he opened it he found in it a hundred-franc note.
Two gentlemen got out and walked round the trembling heap of crumpled misery lying in the road, and one of them said, "O dear!
Wilkins's quick, surprising reply; surprising because it was so much unlike the rest of her—the characterless coat and skirt, the crumpled hat, the undecided wisp of hair straggling out.
Miss Lydia uttered a little, ambiguous squeak and crumpled her programme in her hand.
On the dresser lay many things in confusion—a crumpled roll of bills, a watch, keys, three poker chips, crushed cigars, a pink silk hair bow, and an unopened bottle of bromo-seltzer for a bulwark in the morning.
He came rushing into the nursery with the crumpled little brute of a tie in his hand.
I have seen seas as smooth as if painted, coloured like shot silk or blue as a kingfisher or transparent as glass or black and crumpled with foam, moving ponderously and murderously.
We watch the lawn settle into the sleep of frost and the last crumpled leaf quiver on the oak, and feel the change.
Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills.
Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills.
Trust is like a paper, once it's crumpled, it can't be perfect again.
She throws a crumpled dollar down and always asks for coconut or sometimes papaya juice, and we send it up to her in a paper shopping bag she lets down with clothesline.
Moments later he took the flat piece of paper, crumpled it up, and threw it down the hall way.
A crumpled banknote issued by the first Ming emperor has been discovered hidden within a cavity inside a 13th-century Chinese wooden sculpture.
The characters "were a different breed of hero…out-of-shape academics in crumpled, slime-smeared jumpsuits".
Once it's crumpled, it'll never be perfect again.
Earlier that morning, when I was certain no one was looking, I did something I had done twenty-six years earlier: I planted a fistful of crumpled money under a mattress.
Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills.
