1723 examples of twinkling in sentences

So saying, he leaped on his zebra, gave a sort of huntsman's shout, and was off in a twinkling.

There, above, and just on the upper line of that tall peak, looming darkly and majestically in the distance, hangs a brilliant star, sparkling and twinkling, like the sheen of a diamond; and right beneath, away down just as far below the surface of the water as mountain peak and star are above it, is another mountain peak and bright star, twinned by the mirrored waters.

"Hello," he cried, his twinkling eyes under their shaggy brows lighting with pleasure as he looked at the girls.

Then Lister's twinkling smile appealed, and somehow her reserve vanished when she was out of doors with him.

Barbara gave him a twinkling glance and remarked that he knitted his brows but did not hesitate.

Robin returned the gaze with one of wide-eyed innocence, not a shadow of a smile twinkling in his eyes or twitching at the corners of his mouth.

To brisk notes in cadence beating, Glance their many-twinkling feet.

"May I sit here?" Sophy looked up into the plump, pink, smiling face of one of those very women of the buyer type on whom she had speculated ten minutes beforea good-natured face with shrewd, twinkling eyes.

" Miss Ella Morrissey's twinkling eyes almost disappeared in wrinkles of laughter; but Sophy Gold was not laughing.

Sophy Gold was moving toward the lift, the twinkling-eyed Miss Morrissey with her.

She surveyed Sophy Gold, her shrewd eyes twinkling.

The whole arrangement excited a good deal of surprise, and not a few execrations among the officers of the "Caroline;" though none but her Commander had the smallest twinkling of the real reason why the kedge had thus been laid, and why a warp was so awkwardly stretched across their path.

The governor swings himself unsteadily to the right-hand railing and the long look ahead brings the twinkling arc-star of the tower light on Breezeland Inn into view.

twinkling dice thy feet, Poppies thy lips, thy ways none knows how sweet! MILO.

They rushed to the bay with twinkling feet, But vain was their haste, for the moonlight fleet Had passed with the dawn, and never again Were those fairies permitted to traverse the main.

OF THE LETTER N. The consonant N, which is also a semivowel and a liquid, has two sounds;the first, the pure and natural sound of n; as in nun, banner, cannon;the second, the ringing sound of ng, heard before certain gutturals; as in think, mangle, conquer, congress, singing, twinkling, Cen'chreä.

His companion, in his gigantic hands, seized the old Judge's other leg, and pressed his foot immovably to the stone floor; while his senior, in a twinkling, with a masterly application of pincers and hammer, sped the glowing bar around his ankle so tight that the skin and sinews smoked and bubbled again, and old Judge Harbottle uttered a yell that seemed to chill the very stones, and make the iron chains quiver on the wall.

The fogs passed all too soon into a hard frost, into nights of starlight and presently moonlight, when the lamps looked hard, flashing like rows of yellow gems, and their reflections and the glare of the shop windows were sharp and frosty, and even the stars hard and bright, snapping noiselessly (if one may say so) instead of twinkling.

In a twinkling hell had elbowed out heaven, and there on the waters was hatred and savagery and the lust for blood.

She shot little twinkling glances across at him all the time, and it seemed to me that she was amused at his backwardness, and that she tried by what she said to give him heart.

When Percy and his men were over the Marches, then the people would drive some of their cattle into the yard of the tower, shut up the big gate, and light a fire in the brazier at the top, which would be answered by all the other Peel towers, until the lights would go twinkling up to the Lammermuir Hills, and so carry the news on to the Pentlands and to Edinburgh.

Their conversation supplied Lord John with an anecdote which he used to bring out, with a twinkling eye and a chuckling laugh, whenever he heard that any public reform was regarded with misgiving by sensible men.

In a twinkling she seized himOh, how he did shriek!

But as the Prince and I drove furiously through, like pursuer and pursued, the busy streets cleared themselves in a twinkling; and we rode through lanes of faces yellow in the lamplight, or in the darker places like blurs of scrabbled whiteness.

There's a kinda twinkling in her eyes, now and then when she looks over here, that sure don't line up with her innocent talk.

1723 examples of  twinkling  in sentences