" "Well," said the Colonel solemnly, blinking at the fire, "I hope I'm a Christian, but as to bein' satisfied" "Church of England can't manage it, hey?" "Church of England's got nothing to do with it.

He blinked in the light, with unaccustomed eyes.

He sat for a time blinking with owlish stupidity.

We may conceive Mr. Fanciful Fopling in the sleepy blink of those early hours before the pleasures of the day have made a start, inquiring between his yawns what latest novels have come down from London, or whether a new part of "Pamela" is offered yet.

" "Never saw a fireplace swalla logs whole an' never blink like this one.

The three sat unmoved, blinking into the live charcoal, save at rare intervals when the elder of the two women cast a handful of fragrance upon the brazier and wrapped us all in a fresh pall of smoke which billowed round the room and lapped the interstices of the rotten tiles.

The peer, holding a tall glass of weak whisky and soda in his hand, and blinking through his gold-rimmed spectacles, asked her if she were going anywhere else.

Yonder, where the slant sun glanced and blinked on windows, must be Sour Creek; and there was the road to town jagging across the hills.

The little man sat blinking for some minutes silent in that absolute stillness which is peculiar to great heightsand is so marked at Montserrat that many cannot sleep there.

Then he sat up in bed, and blinked about him with the air of a man who is collecting his thoughts.

A hundred candles danced and blinked before him like so many taunting eyes and turned him dizzy with a sickening nausea.

" Sylvia's heart, like all young hearts, was dazzled almost to blinking by the radiance shed from the magic word Italy.

There were certain bills he owedforgotten to be sure in normal timesbut now they came up blinking to the light, rudely disinterred by Mr. Steadman's hard words.

" She hitched sidewise in her chair, dipped her forefinger into her fresh glass, snapped it at him so that he blinked under the tiny spray.

" She blinked as though to clear her eyes and then met his stare again.

At the end of the evening, it brings any number of couples blinking out of the dark, with no idea the clock was striking more than half-past nine.

Yet they looked very bored, these soldiers and seigneurs, yawning and blinking over the missals, while some who seemed more intent upon their devotions were really dipping into the latest romance of Scudery or Calpernedi, cunningly bound up in a sombre cover.

Ah! [And the forest lies as if under a spell; the moonlight is softer, the tender green fire of the glow-worm shines blinking among the moss; on all sides, between the tree-boles creep, shadow-like, the charmed beasts; eyes shine, moist muzzles point toward the source of the music.

Tossed City sinners go in and out, and pass, and penetrate, but still the music dreams, and still the dim gold blinks above their heads.

Joe asked, as they flew by a lighthouse blinking from a rocky headland.

Some of his movements called to mind the awkward shuffling of an owl in a cage, when it feels that it is being stared at, but can scarcely see anything itself out of its large yellow eyes, blinking between sleep and fear.