prinkling

• The mastication of it is accompanied by a prinkling sensation upon the tongue, singular to one unaccustomed to it. —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
• Before him stretches an expanse of plain altogether treeless, but clothed with tall grass, whose culms stirred by the night breeze, and silvered by the moonbeams, sway to and fro, like the soft tremulous wavelets of a tropic sea; myriads of fire-flies prinkling among the spikes, and emitting a gleam, as phosphorescent —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
• The sea-hawks, wheeling above both pursuers and pursued, had been watching their opportunity; and as the pretty creatures made their appearance above water, both the birds swooped straight down among the prinkling cohort, each selecting a victim. —  The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
• His rays, prinkling over the waves, caused them to dance and sparkle with a metallic brightness; and it was only after shading my eyes that I could distinguish the tall masts of ships and the burnished towers of the city. —  The Rifle Rangers

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