51 collocations for twinkling

Mr. Stearns, he of the round, jovial face, gazed at his junior with twinkling eyes.

Just when the Day is vanish'd into Night, And only twinkling Stars inform the World, Near to the Corner of the silent Wall, In Fields of Lincoln's-Inn, thy Spirit shall meet thee.

When he went on deck again some time afterwards the ship was steering for a gap between two rows of twinkling lights.

Thine eyes were glowing like blue-bells blowing, With dew-drops twinkling their silvery fires; Thine heart was panting with love enchanting, For mine was granting its fond desires.

Pair after pair, along his sacred groves 470 To Hymen's fane the bright procession moves; Each smiling youth a myrtle garland shades, And wreaths of roses veil the blushing maids; Light joys on twinkling feet attend the throng, Weave the gay dance, or raise the frolic song; 475 Thick, as they pass, exulting Cupids fling Promiscuous arrows from the sounding string;

The doctor's eyes twinkled a little.

We saw him look at her with a funny, twinkling curiosity, as he stood there with her in the full light; and we all thought we had never seen Leslie look prettier in all her life.

By and by there seemedthere wasa twinkling dawn of returning reason.

" "If I were going I should certainly want you, too," twinkled the doctor.

"Well, then,"Aurora's eyes twinkled like stars,"id muz be bic-ause 'Sieur Frowenfel' bump 'is 'eadha, ha, ha!"

"Now, then," said he, twinkling up his face as if he was really David Llewellyn showing us a fish with its eyes bulged out with sticks to make it look fresh, "as we are out on a kind of a lark, suppose we try a bit of a hecho," and then he turned to a rocky valley on his left, and in a voice like the man at the station calling out the trains he yelled, "Hello there, sir!

A good, honest boy like me, that hammers away at his trade, they think nothing of; whereas one of these fellows with a feather in his cap has only to twinkle his finger at them, and they are off like a bird.

Far in the distance twinkled the gleam of a herdsman's fire, the faint tinkle of a distant bell, or the subdued barking of a village dog for a moment, alone broke the silence.

At first he saw only some lowlands on which twinkled the last gleams from the lighthouses.

The stars twinkled down their glad greeting.

"Your children have unusual names," twinkled the host gravely.

" Columbus said nothing, but he surveyed them both with a look of twinkling humour, and then smothered a laugh with a sneeze.

Vespers were solemn; April dusk fell over a million roofs and spires; twinkling gas jets were lighted in street lamps; city, town, and hamlet drew their curtains and bowed their heads in darkness.

The pier, a double rope of twinkling lamps, hung magically over the invisible sea, and at the end of it, constant and grave, a red globe burned menacingly in the wind-haunted waste of the night.

"It's not likely even now," sly and twinkling Lander of the hotel told Dickie, "that you can make it to Miss Blake's place.

Indeed this was the only possible means of going about comfortably at night in a city of unexpected ditches, ruts like sword-gashes, and lighted only by twinkling lanterns of belated roysterers.

Hardy arose from his chair, his eyes twinkling behind heavy lashes.

This poor little creature having dodged two boulders by a hairbreadth, got out by the westward corner and fled athwart the hill, with flapping rucksack and twinkling knicker-bockered legs, leaving a trail of Cretaceous echinoderms behind him; while young Caddles, satisfied with the destruction he had achieved, came striding out to fulfil his purpose in the world.

Then it was that we could see the Tories running to and fro, each man for himself, and in a twinkling the line of regulars melted away.

Like twinkling Lucifer, shine thou in time's roseate morn.

51 collocations for  twinkling