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• Grok gazes upon you with twinkling, approving eyes. —  Mark's Daily Apple
• Is that child yours Her glance sought his for a twinkling, as if she thought he had lost his mind She shook her head Nope She was not disloyal to Teola in saying this I have offered you all the help a man can give to another human being." —  Tess of the Storm Country
• She was wearing a black lace shawl between her appearances at the piano; she had the revolver under it in a twinkling, and pressed it to her bosom with both hands, one outside the shawl and one underneath, as who should hug a beating heart Mrs. Clarkson," said Stingaree, "you have been singing too much, and the quality of your song has not been equal to the quantity It sounded a brutal speech enough; and to do justice to a portion of the audience not hitherto remarkable for its spirit, the ungallant criticism was audibly resented in the back rows. —  Stingaree
• His pink nose stopped twinkling, his ears folded themselves down like a slice of bread and jam, and Uncle Wiggily's eyes closed All of a sudden he was awakened by feeling himself being pulled. —  Uncle Wiggily in the Woods
• From a farmhouse in the bosom of the tree-hung hills lights were already twinkling, and when he reached the edge of the moor, and the sea spread itself out almost at his feet, the shapes of the passing steamers, with their long trail of smoke, were blurred and uncertain. —  Nobody's Man

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