1.   The Colonel was as crisp as a spring day.

2.   And only the very best inkjet output is as crisp as what office laser printers produce.

3.   Black-text output, historically a weakness of the Stylus line, has been much improved, but still is not as crisp as output from Hewlett-Packard units.

4.   A young woman, crisp as khakis, had her face buried in a book.

5.   All told, the feel of this new widescreen edition is as crisp as an October morn.

6.   For hours, the men, handsome and crisp as new money, alternately laughed and joked and spoke seriously about their work, family and selves.

7.   His suit was boardroom gray, his tie was red silk, his creases as crisp as fresh money.

8.   Home-schooled by her mother, Oracene, Williams speaks with a diction as crisp as her forehand passing shot.

9.   His answer was as crisp as his iron play the past two days.

10.   Mayor William Gaynor, an abrupt, humorless man with a Vandyke as crisp as his manner, tried to do both.