Lemme see," the twinkle deepening, "didn't the gals say yew was a 'spectin' somebody ter-day?

Touchedit in a twinkle Disappears!

"Of course you do; so do we all"; and still that look of quiet amusement on the worn face and a keener twinkle glinting in the eyes.

There was a twinkle o' dew 'pon the thwarts an' gun'l, an' I managed to suck my shirt-sleeve, that was wringin' wet, an' dropped off dozin' again belike.

The bark of a watch-dog came softened by distance from some solitary farmstead, and far away below, the hoot of a steamer, creeping up the river to the twinkling anchorage.

Casey used to feel a sickness in his middle when that thought nagged him, and he felt a growing anger now when he looked at the twinkling glow.

His smooth-shaven visage, so long as it remained grave, might have been that of an acute and energetic lawyer; his smile, however, disturbed this impression, for it had a twinkling insolence, a raffish facetiousness, incompatible with any sober quality.

He lay still where she had commanded him to lie, watching the many twinkling lights, watching the roundabout turn and flash and come to a stop, watching the horseplay of boys and maidens as one set clambered off laughing and another pressed forward into their places.

" The flames were soon but a twinkling point behind them, and at last vanished behind the trees.

But at this season Nature by the simplest strokethe flush of a commonplace cheek, the warm touch of a commonplace handin a twinkling redresses the balance.

And amid the motley crowd the genial host was omnipresent, with a warm greeting and a twinkling smile for each successive guesta good story, a happy quotation, the last morsel of piquant gossip, the newest theory of ethics or of politics.

The sun, from the western horizon, Like a magician, extended his golden wand o'er the landscape; Twinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.