This strange costume in which he was clothed seemed unreal, monstrous; no longer the natty dress in which he had been proud to prink the night before, but a nightmare, Nessus-like investiture, signifying some abominable burning doom.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
Anne wasn't a mossel vain, but nights she expected Gil she'd prink for hours afore her glass, fixing her hair this way and that, and trying on all her good clothes to see which become her most.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906"
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Many a marriageable maiden who came to view the trousseau went home to prink and blush and watch for the shadchan.
"The Promised Land"
Mary Antin
