Blinking

Examples

• Them's her lights, Miss Abbey, wot you see a-blinking yonder,' cried another. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Will not their eyes be dazzled, and will they not try to get away from the light to something which they are able to behold without blinking? Plato. The Republic.
• So I do that white chap; he's always got his blinking eyes upon a fellow. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Bitzer, still holding the paralysed culprit by the collar, stood in the Ring, blinking at his old patron through the darkness of the twilight. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• What with her natural blindness, and what with the change from dark to light, she stood as one dazed, blinking about her to see where and who we were. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The boy stopped in his rapid blinking, knuckled his forehead again, glanced at Sissy, turned about, and retreated. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• He looked rather comical, blinking and trying to be in the scene, when emotionally he was violated by his exposure to a crowd. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The fire being low and fitful, and the dusk gloomy, the whole stock seemed to be winking and blinking with both eyes, as Mr Venus did. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He stood for a few minutes holding the candle aloft, and blinking on our travellers with a dismal and mystified expression that was truly ludicrous. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Topsy came up; her round, hard eyes glittering and blinking with a mixture of apprehensiveness and their usual odd drollery. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The latter was blinking in the bright light of the corridor, and peering at us and at the smouldering fire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Five or six had already hatched and the grotesque caricatures which sat blinking in the sunlight were enough to cause me to doubt my sanity. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.

Edited by Bonita