While relating this wonderful achievement, he winked at the Doctor, as much as to say, "fair play; remember our compact; stand by me now."

They simply make it impossible for the unhappy wretches to obtain a wink of sleep, until at length the torture grows unbearable and they find refuge in the long sleep which no mortal has power to prevent.

We do not deny it, we boast of it, but we exchange a wink with the angelseh?" Alexis rode on in silence for a few moments.

It was the base Byron, tipping the wink to Mac out of the back of the bunk, that betrayed Kaviak.

The Colonel would climb up and have forty winks in the top one before the Boy got in for their game of chess.

"One flight up, Miss, and turn to the right," he continued, promptly; and then he winked over the girl's head at Uncle John, who frowned so terribly that the man drew aside and disappeared abruptly.

The fact is, the young fellow is a good-hearted creature enough, only too fond of his jokes,and if it were not for those heat-lightning winks on one side of his face, I should not mind his fun much.]

Notice with what dexterity and generosity Mr. SPRAT selects the fattest parts and skilfully conveys them to Madam's plate, reserving the lean for himself; occasionally throwing a bone to his dog, while the lady now and then bestows a fat bit upon Puss, who slowly licks her lips and winks for more.

His friends and the above-mentioned fraternity chuckled and winked behind his back, but although Mr. P. heard them chuckle and knew that they were winking, his belief in his final success never wavered.

Two brigades of infantry were under canvas in Mud Gully, their cook fires winking like red eyes.

At last the steward came with the said article on his arm, and having deposited her in the seat nearly opposite mine, at a knowing wink from him, a second steward sounded another bell, and the men dropped into their seats like magic.

The other turned his head to see a flash of light that winked through the dull, smoky veil, with startling clearness.

The Statue of Liberty was just ahead, and already the great search-light in her torch was winking across the water.

"Just as I came in this afternoon old George Lee screwed up one eye at two or three women wot was gossiping near, and when I asked 'im wot 'e'd got to wink about he said that a bit o' wedding-cake 'ad blowed in his eye as I passed.

I have run off the rails, and stuck all night in snowdrifts, and sat behind females that would have the window open when one could not wink without his eyelids freezing together.

The arc lights flared and winked above her in the high roof of the wharf; the crowds of keen-faced, hard-eyed men and women in costly, neat-fitting clothing were as oblivious of her and as ferociously intent on their own affairs as the shabby, noisy crowd she had left in Naples, brushing by her as though she were a part of the wharf as they bent over their trunks anxiously, and locked them up with determination.

It lights the savages even in the deepest and darkest caves; none but sore eyes wink against its light; nor is there indeed any man so distempered and so blind, but who still walks by the glimpse of some duskish light he retains from that inward sun of consciences.

He kept one hand up to his face as much as possible, but he saw the sophomores smiling covertly and winking among themselves.

The Michailovsky is not a large theatre, but the stalls looked extraordinarily desolate, every seat watching one with a kind of insolent wink as though, like the Nevski ten minutes before it said, "Well, now you humans are getting frightened, you're all stopping away.

And so they dress it up in the clothes of the old religion just for the present, with many a quiet wink between themselves at the expense of the "semi-scientific" reader.

Mrs. Cliff, who had not slept one wink during the night, but who appeared almost rejuvenated by the ideas which had come to her during her sleeplessness, now entered a protest against the proposed marriage at the American legation.

Its silhouette had been blocking half their view of the Asteroid Belt and the gleaming array of stars behind it, but now, even as they watched, its profile diminished and stars were winking into view around its edge.

"The man won't git a wink out of me more or less than I would give to the woman.

"Ain't that proof positive?" winking toward Mrs. Albright.

Glancing at his wife he winked towards their guest, saying: "Come, he's a safe friend; one may tell him everything.