The back-drop of office-lights began to blink out then, all except the tallest tower in the world, rising in the glory of its own spotlight into a rococo pinnacle of man's accomplishment.

There...." The starship vanished in less than a blink.

You have only to blink your eyes, pretend to be knowing, and we are nothing.

As they approached, the archers shot so deftly, the spearmen launched their darts so briskly, that not a man dared to blink his eye or to show his face.

The blink of ice was shortly seen, and soon after ice itself, drifting about in bergs.

Once or twice Leothric saw a star blink for an instant and reappear again, and this momentary eclipse of a few stars was all that remained in the world of the body of Thok.

The ships fell in with the ice blink on the 17th, in 70 degrees 33 minutes North, 197 degrees 41 minutes East, rather earlier than had been expected, and soon afterwards with the ice itself in the shape of a large field extending as far as the eye could reach from west to east.

They believe as everybody believed sixty years ago; and we are sorry to see what appears to be an inclination in some quarters to blink this aspect of the case, lest the party be charged with want of conservatism, or, what is worse, with abolitionism.

Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall, Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne.

Oh where's now the smile Used to cheer me ilk morn, Like a blink o' the sun's ain light; And where the voice sae sweet That aye gar'd my bosom beat When sae saftly she bade me gude-night.

Blink not, and list to me!

It is impossible to blink the fact that Slavery is the root of the rebellion; and so War is proving itself an Abolitionist, whoever else is.

The sensation of house and in-door life would be a new one, and so satisfying in itself that we should not demand beautiful objects to meet our first blink of awakening eyes.

I shudder still; your gay looks dazzle me; As those who long in hideous darkness pent Blink at the daily light; this room's too bright!

See him sit and purr and blink Don't yer bet he knows I think

Seems as if my heart would break, But I love yer for her sake, Don't I, Jim? See him sit and purr and blink, Don't yer bet he knows I think

If Care steal amang us he's narrowly watch'd, By a smile or a squeeze of the hand he's dispatch'd; Or the arm of a friend should the stout villain meet, One blink of true love lays him dead at your feet.

The noise of these animals is rather trying at nightone imagines all sorts of dreadful things happening, but when the watchman visits the stables its occupants blink at him with a sleepy air as though the disturbance could not possibly have been there!

The story commences thus: "The dew | was fall | -ing fast, | the stars | began | to blink; I heard | a voice; | it said, |

Then, of a sudden, it had to blink its eyes; for a glorious light had spread over the world, catching every leaf and twig and blade of grass in tears, and putting a smile into every tear.

The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink; I heard a voice; it said, "Drink, pretty creature, drink!"

" She went down and tidied herself upnot that it made much difference to 'erand, arter patting him on the arm and giving me a stare that would ha' made most men blink, she took herself off.

When our simple meal had been eaten there was gloom gathering in the canyon and stars had begun to blink in the pale strip of blue above the lofty walls.

His eyes began to blink; his half-opened mouth closed with a snap; a long, choking groan escaped his lips.

The tulips are all a-blaze and a-stare, making one blink with the dazzle of their odorless beauty: the frolicsome young wind is shaking out their balm from the hyacinth-bells, and the sweet Nanciesmy flowersblowing all together, are swaying and congéeing to the morning airs.