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from The Century Dictionary.
- Winking.
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Examples
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Then the President said, with something of awink, that if John McCain could withstand those abuses there was no abuse "the angry Left" in this country could bring to break him down either.
Sad, more than angry 2008
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The sky was alight and saffron-tinted, the mountains bloomed with violet shadows; as we came whirling by the point of Dead-Man we saw the wickiups of the Paiutes, and the little hearth fires all awink among the sage.
Agua Dulce 1909
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He nodded through the large window to the stencilled _Devolution_ awink with brass work in the morning sun, and ceased.
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Thou drowsy god, whose blurred eyes, half awink ... ..
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And as they stare up the yards, awink with the colored lamps of the switch stands: "Do you see the giant black engines and cars, and the shops beyond with their roaring mountains of machinery; the tracks stretching thousands of miles, all swarming with trains and men?
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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- man on boards awink to the many a articles they had, and to the great i the fiifpeon«:
Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries [microform]: From ... 1796
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