Us perkened so, staring at each other, not rightly knowing one the other—such a goodly percentage of familiar skin now been quenched back of hiding cloth.
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Perken
Synonyms for "perken" (2 found)
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She saw him and kind of perkened up [perked up] her gait a little bit.
Source: wiktionary
But Lawrence,” he adds, perkening, “I hope you were planning to take my Elizabethan poets course next year?”
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