Twinklers

Germans or no Germans the Twinklers were the cutest little things, thought Edith; and she kissed them, with the same hunger with which, being now thirty-eight, she was beginning to kiss puppies.

Christopher and Columbus Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

_ Ha, ha, ha, I'd go if I thought the sight of Matrimony wou'd tempt _Chargee_ to perform her Promise: There was a smile, there was a consenting Look with those pretty Twinklers, worth a Million.

The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre

Gray-Squirrel Coat, an Auto Car, $11,000 worth of Twinklers and a fourteen-room Apartment.

People You Know George Ade 1905

The house Mr. Twist was taking was not connected in the Cosmopolitan mind with the Twinklers.

Christopher and Columbus Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

The hotel guests regarded the Twinklers at this stage with nothing but benevolence and goodwill, for they had up to then only been seen and not heard; and as one of their leading characteristics was a desire to explain, especially if anybody looked a little surprised, which everybody usually did quite early in conversation with them, this was at that moment, the delicate moment before Mrs. Bilton's arrival, fortunate.

Christopher and Columbus Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

There was something about the Twinklers that lightened his heart whenever he caught sight of them.

Christopher and Columbus Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

Sometimes he was seen in Main Street, that street in Acapulco through which everybody passes at certain hours of the morning, looking as though he had a great deal to do and very little time to do it in; and once or twice the Twinklers were seen there, also apparently very busy, but they didn't now come alone.

Christopher and Columbus Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

His friend told him that opinion in the hotel was divided about the precise nature of this _entourage_ and its relationship to Mr. Twist, but it finally came to be generally supposed that the Miss Twinklers had been placed in his charge by parents living far away in order that he might safely see them put to one of the young ladies 'finishing schools in that agreeable district.

Christopher and Columbus Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

This lady, the widow of Bruce D. Bilton of Chicago of whom of course, she said, the Miss Twinklers had heard -- the Miss Twinklers blushed and felt ashamed of themselves because they hadn't, and indistinctly murmured something about having heard of Cornelius K. Vanderbilt, though, and wouldn't he do -- had a great deal of very beautiful snow-white hair, while at the same time she was only middle-aged.

Christopher and Columbus Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

The Miss Twinklers were orphans, and he had been asked -- he cleared his throat -- asked by their relatives, by, in fact, their uncle in England, to take over their guardianship and see that they came to no harm.

Christopher and Columbus Elizabeth von Arnim 1903