"Winking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... grace upon her in these days that all saw. Over her real wit and native vivacity, it was like a porcelain shade about a flame. One could look at it, and be glad of it, without winking. The brightness was all there, but there was a difference in the giving forth. What had been a bit self-centred and self-conscious—bright as if only for being bright and for dazzling—was outgoing and self-forgetful, and so softened. Leslie Goldthwaite read by it a new answer to some of ...
— A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... intended victim or not we cannot say, but it crouched for another spring. The professor, almost instinctively, crouched also, and, being a brave man, stared the animal straight in the face without winking! and so the two crouched there, absolutely motionless and with a fixed glare, such as we have often seen in a couple of tom-cats who were mutually afraid ...
— Blown to Bits - The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago • R.M. Ballantyne
... Alicia, winking her eyes to keep back the moisture in them, "though it was only when ...
— T. Tembarom • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... whose eyes rested on her as she spoke, beckon'd me, very mysterious, outside the cabin, and winking slily, whisper'd loud enough to ...
— The Splendid Spur • Arthur T. Quiller Couch
... here—mother," interrupted Gypsy, jumping up and winking very fast, "isn't there a train up from Boston early Monday morning? She might ...
— Gypsy's Cousin Joy • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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