Twinkled
[twɪŋkəld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Twinkle
Editor: Patrick
Examples
- She pursued her embroidery carefully and quickly, but her eyelash twinkled, and then it glittered, and then a drop fell. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Jo's face was very sober, but her eyes twinkled, and there was an odd sound in her voice of repressed emotion of some sort. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And she twinkled a little wistfully at Archer. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I looked at the sky; it was pure: a kindly star twinkled just above the chasm ridge. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He jumped up, and the leaden eyes which twinkled behind his mountainous cheeks leered horribly upon the food as he unpacked it from the basket. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Milverton's smile broadened and his eyes twinkled humorously. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Topsy's eyes twinkled, and she looked inquiringly. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- As he did so his black eyes twinkled up. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Her tags and ear-rings twinkled, and her big eyes rolled about. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The idea appeared to amuse her considerably; for her eyes twinkled, and she added, I spect I grow'd. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- His eyes twinkled, and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mrs. Manson Mingott screwed up her little mouth into a grimace of mimic prudery and twinkled at him through malicious lids. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Above them, in the sky whence the sun had vanished, twinkled a silver point--the star of love. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Editor: Patrick