"Cockled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him. And at some distance beyond the top of the hill he sat down on the bank beside a nettled ditch, and with his book pressed down upon the wayside grass struck a match, and holding it low in the scented, windless air turned slowly the cockled leaf. ...
— The Return • Walter de la Mare
... sailor hat with a blue band. "Exactly like yours!" said Lavender easily, but Clemence shook her head in sad denial. Her coat and skirt had been bought ready-made at a sale, was an inch too short in the waist, and cockled at the seams; her hat was last year's shape, while the girl in the porch had just—the—very—latest and most ...
— A College Girl • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey |
