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Twinkling   /twˈɪŋkəlɪŋ/  /twˈɪŋklɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Twinkle  v. i.  (past & past part. twinkled; pres. part. twinkling)  
1.
To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. "The owl fell a moping and twinkling."
2.
To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate. "These stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures." "The western sky twinkled with stars."


noun
Twinkling  n.  
1.
The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle.
2.
A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars.
3.
The time of a wink; a moment; an instant. "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump,... the dead shall be raised incorruptible."





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"Twinkling" Quotes from Famous Books



... the case, and gazed on its contents with twinkling eyes; then, shutting it with a laugh, he leaned back in his chair, rubbing his smooth ...
— Adrien Leroy • Charles Garvice
... dusk of the evening, when the flickering tapers of the temperate town are going out one by one. Roars of merriment greet you as you approach the cavernous city of the suburb. There the entertainments of the inhabitants are only about to begin. You see moving lights in the distance twinkling along the grey surface of the rock, and flitting amongst the trees that lie between its base and the margin of the river. Some bacchanalian orgie is going forward." [Footnote: Bell (R.), "Wayside ...
— Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe • Sabine Baring-Gould
... though she had expected an accommodation of the kind. There was not even a stool to be seen in the council-chamber. But at the table of the judges stood a vacant armchair, the property of some absent member; and in the twinkling of an eye Eugene had perceived and rolled it forward. He placed it respectfully behind his aunt, and resumed his position on ...
— Prince Eugene and His Times • L. Muhlbach
... she stopped, and with her hand upon it said, "Good-night, Charlie;" and was out of the room in a twinkling. ...
— On the Church Steps • Sarah C. Hallowell
... unction in that persuasion generally. How cold and apathetic they are, in these soul-stirring times! Not a sinner has been writhing on their floor, I'll engage, nor a wretch transferred into a saint, in the twinkling of an eye, by that parson. Well, we have every reason ...
— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper


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