How To Use Winkle In A Sentence
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Witty and warm with a mischievous twinkle in his eye.
The Sun
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A few stars twinkled through the light dark clouds.
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He said the unsayable and the unthinkable but with a twinkle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here is my compile command "cc - Wall - lncurses - o twinkle twinkle. c" I am using fedora 12. 'env' shows that TERM = linux.
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Close against them and overpeering their tops were hollyhocks and dahlias; against these stood at lesser height sweet peas, asters, zinnias, coreopsis and others of like stature; in front of these were poppies for summer, marigolds for autumn; beneath these again were verbenas, candytuft -- all this is sketched from memory, and I recall the winsome effect rather than species and names; and still below nestled portulaca and periwinkle.
The Amateur Garden
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Witty and warm with a mischievous twinkle in his eye.
The Sun
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She rubbed my arm comfortingly with a small twinkle of mischief that I had seen somewhere else.
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Their faces light up and eyes twinkle as if there's a current of electricity swirling inside them.
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Here the interior is inlaid with millions of beautiful shells, scallops, paloudres, clams, periwinkles, mussels, oysters and rogans.
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For instance, layer a crewneck periwinkle short-sleeved t-shirt over my long sleeve grey heather t , allowing the bottom of the grey heather to extend below the hem of the periwinkle to create an easy, layered look.
Red Room: Deborah Lindquist: Bring Your Summer Wardrobe into Fall -- the Green Way
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In 1540 he had licence to impark the Lyveden estate in Aldwinkle St. Peter's parish, where the "New
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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Terry rolled his eyes, but the green orbs twinkled with amusement.
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And now the engineer pulled out the throttle-valve to make up for lost time, and the clatter of the train faded into a distant roar, and its lights began to twinkle into indistinctness.
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The committee winkled out the unqualified candidates
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No flower born in the summertime was missing from it, not even the flower of the broom, the violet, the periwinkle, or any yellow, indigo, or white flower.
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In the twinkle of an eye two powerful Quadi followed the dispensator, and, seizing Chilo by the remnant of his hair, tied his own rags around his neck and dragged him to the prison.
Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
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Rip Van Winkle, a kindly, lazy, henpecked man, set out for a remote part of the Catskill Mountains.
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Perhaps it would be a little shore crab that betrayed itself by scuffling down amongst the corallite or sea-weed, perhaps a little fierce-looking bristly fish, which shot under a ledge of the rock all amongst the limpets, acorn barnacles, or the thousands of yellow and brown and striped snaily fellows that crawled about in company with the periwinkles and pelican's feet.
Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore
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She's got a mischievous sense of humour and a twinkle in her eye.
The Sun
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The periwinkle in turn is preyed upon by blue crabs and diamondback terrapins.
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The combination of intellectual integrity and a twinkle in the eye inspired affection as well as respect.
Times, Sunday Times
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They twinkled bright in the dark sky, beautiful and old and they made her unimportant.
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Warne is closer to Steve's twin, Mark, and he has not always agreed with the captain - but you will not winkle an ounce of dissent out of him.
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We've bloodied noses and bit off ears with the best of them, before even the US was a twinkle in someone's eye.
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I doubt we'll get any rain out of it, but I like to listen to Rip Van Winkle and the boys playing ninepins all the same.
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Daisies have snowed all over the Campagna, -- periwinkles star the grass, -- crocuses and anemones impurple the spaces between the rows of springing grain along the still brown slopes.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859
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She looked into his gorgeous, blue eyes that had a dull twinkle in them.
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Voices came from the battlements, and a twinkle of steel.
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The stars twinkled brightly in the night sky above her head.
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Her hair is freshly set in loose curls and her green eyes twinkle behind spectacles.
The Sun
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Circles ringed and shadowed them, but still they twinkled brightly.
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These gases scatter light from the cosmic microwave background radiation as it passes through the clusters, similar to the way Earth's atmosphere can scatter starlight, making some stars twinkle.
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He is approached by a pair of twin preppies from Connecticut, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss (both played by actor Armie Hammer) - two privileged types who row crew and have the Olympics in their sites.
Marshall Fine: Movie review: The Social Network
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Garden, who attracts considerable notice by the cry of -- Come buy my live shrimps and pierriwinkles -- buy my wink, wink, wink; these, however, are exceptions to those previously mentioned, as they have good voices, and deliver themselves to some tune; but to the former may be added the itinerant collector of old clothes, who continually annoys you with -- Clow; clow sale.
Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
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Her eyes, a startling blue-gray danced and twinkled in the light streaming in from tall, elegant windows framed with green marble columns topped by gold-painted fluting.
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Recently such a result in Ivory Coast led to a civil war before Laurent Gbagbo could be winkled out of the presidential palace at the end of a gun barrel.
The Real Legacy of Nelson Mandela
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The stars and planets that merrily twinkle, light years away, have inspired song lyrics and poems, become pivotal symbols in religion and have provided an eternal need for man to explore the concept of infinity.
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At the base of a tree, for example, you might have better luck with wood chips or shade-loving ornamental plants like ivy, periwinkle, or pachysandra.
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A devious grin crossed his face as his clear grey eyes twinkled with amusement.
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A lot of tourists bought Bullwinkle cels and Rocky dolls there, unaware the guy with the handlebar mustache who was taking their money was Jay Ward.
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We board a 21-passenger white minibus, the price of emissions, at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Indian Avenue, and sit back as Ken Huskey aka White Horse, a 40-year veteran in the energy industry, takes the wheel and the mic, delivering in best AM DJ voice a dazzling non-stop physics-laden eclogue on the 300-hundred-foot-high spears with periwinkles on top, and their awesome powers.
Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley?
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Winkleman is showing significant art, not formalist poetry or provincialist landscapes.
Hickey remarks vanish (revised)
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As she mechanically began spooning hot globules of oatmeal into her mouth, she caught sight of Periwinkle and another teacher walk in through the Arts Wing hallway.
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What benefits the willow tree that its bark should contain salicylic acid; or the foxglove, digitalis; the periwinkle, vincristine; or the poppy, opiates?
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He had a wry sense of humour and a twinkle in his eye.
Times, Sunday Times
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The stars serenely encased the green-and-brown planet in their milky twinkle, lighting up all the oceans with a crystal glow, a beautiful shine.
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The maker of the breaching axes is Daniel Winkler who, for twenty years or more has been pre-eminent in the re-creation of frontier cutlery.
More On Axes
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The place was a garden, somewhat gone to waste, with a gravel drive running round a great circle of periwinkles with a spotted aucuba in the middle.
The Carbonels
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Her hair is freshly set in loose curls and her green eyes twinkle behind spectacles.
The Sun
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With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Winkler enlisted in the Austrian army.
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Aquamarine is the new lime green, coral is the new taupe, dusty rose is the new periwinkle, shell is the new cream.
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They twinkle in all directions clean on out of sight, these flash pictures of the dreamy doll faces of the workmen.
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One of the great highlights of working on the show has been working with Henry Winkler.
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At its feet tea lights twinkle in tiny bird cages.
Times, Sunday Times
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When it was finally belching smoke to his satisfaction, he looked at me, and in his eye was what I can only describe as a rueful twinkle.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
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The combination of intellectual integrity and a twinkle in the eye inspired affection as well as respect.
Times, Sunday Times
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We never tired of the stunning view, and at night the sky was full of stars, the lights twinkled from houses dotted among the trees and olive groves and the only sound was the strange hoot of the little Scops owls.
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Government critics were winkled out of their positions of influence.
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In between the shows, the comic interludes were performed to keep the audience in good spirits with twinkle-footed clowns.
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The foreshore is the Queen's, but some sensible arrangement could be made about the driftwood, plastic bottles, condoms and winkles found there.
The Guardian World News
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Together with Germanist Sally Winkle, he guided me in my research and read the manuscript for historical accuracy.
Stones from the River
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It's a twinkle and a sparkle that has left the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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At night, lights twinkle in distant villages across the valleys.
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Does anyone here know Rip Van Winkle?
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The fire in his eyes flared and with a single hand he flipped the table halfway across the room, the teapot and cups shattering in a twinkle of light.
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From March to June we see an incredible carpet of flowers in the woods (sowbreads, periwinkles, anemones and many others).
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Kevin held his look of innocence, while his eyes danced and twinkled, laughing at her.
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It snows onto a snowman and a Christmas tree while Santa flies overhead and the aforementioned bulbs twinkle merrily.
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The security services will pretty well go to any lengths to winkle out information.
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Wearing black trousers and a grey polo shirt, he is still handsome with shoulder-length silvery hair and a twinkle in the eye.
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Amy had expected one of his bright smiles, a twinkle in the eye, and a joyous ‘yes’; she didn't expect him to sidetrack the conversation completely.
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Mary winkler, with zero evidence of her abuse, gets 67 days in a mental health facility and Owens, with a mountain of evidence including medical records, gets the death penalty.
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On good days most of these twinkle and sparkle in the sun.
Times, Sunday Times
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He felt cold and damp, but was comforted to see the twinkle of torchlight in the distance.
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Of the plant-derived anticancer drugs in clinical use, the best known are the alkaloids vinblastine and vincristine, isolated from the Madagascar periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus.
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There was not a star to twinkle hope and light to him.
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In spring and summer we would pick mussels, cockles and winkles round the ‘glar’ or silt mud in the harbour.
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He had a wry sense of humour and a twinkle in his eye.
Times, Sunday Times
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The diamond on her finger twinkled in the fire-light.
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With a twinkle in his eye and a shrug.
The Sun
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there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes
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No! editor: Can I ask you something? winkler: Excuse me!
Bloomberg Without Bloomberg
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He shook his head, and twinkled his eyes in feigned amusement, and marveled to himself that her intuition should have so squarely hit the mark.
CHAPTER XXX
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I boiled the winkles and steamed the potatoes as quickly as I could.
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Playing the ball late, his feet started to twinkle.
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'If I find it necessary to carry you away, pick-a-back, o' course I shall leave it the least bit o 'time possible afore you; but allow me to express a hope as you won't reduce me to extremities; in saying wich, I merely quote wot the nobleman said to the fractious pennywinkle, ven he vouldn't come out of his shell by means of a pin, and he conseqvently began to be afeered that he should be obliged to crack him in the parlour door.'
The Pickwick papers
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He had a broad, trusting smile, and eyes that twinkled with mischief.
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He was holding the phone with a mischievous twinkle in his eye.
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This was nothing more nor less than strings of beads wrought out of clams, periwinkles, and other shell-fish, and called seawant or wampum.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
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Jeans with elaborate detailing on the pockets, shirts in colors such as periwinkle, heather, golden pear and hollyberry, T-shirts, crews and polos in soft pima cotton, and a good pair of loafers, says Tom Purdy, men's manager for Dillard's.
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As originally defined by Winkler, genome referred to a monoploid chromosome complement.
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Eventually the Supt is winkled out-fortunately he knows me and is practical minded-he agrees with my judgement and the whole thing goes to CPS who say-reasonable chastisement.
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Felix et errabunda XLVI opening my curtains to golden autumn sunlight and a periwinkle blue sky
Felix et errabunda XLVI
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She looked out into the ocean, seeing the moonlight twinkle on the ocean surface as the waves slowly danced their way to shore.
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As he turned out the light, three bright stars twinkled above the silent house.
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There was a slight twinkle of humour in them.
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Stars twinkled above them as they lay on the hill.
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He was a pertinacious controversialist, but in any personal discussion his humorous twinkle was disarming.
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Stars twinkled in the night sky.
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A faint twinkle appeared under the mass of rubble occupying the centre part of the room.
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You can even plant periwinkle, bugle and ground ivy in the gaps in your log or rock pile - this could make a fun project for an older child.
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The sun had almost set and already Auckland's lights were a twinkle in the distance.
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Some of nature's most complicated chemistry takes place in the shoots and leaves of the tiny, unassuming periwinkle plant.
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Local people eat limpets and the gonads of shingle urchins uncooked but they eat nerites and periwinkles boiled.
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Anticancer compounds that are extracted from the periwinkle plant, Vinca rosea, are called the vinca alkaloids.
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One of the aldermen, Ed Smith, retired; one, Thomas Allen, was appointed a judgeship; the third, Toni Preckwinkle, had was elected to be the next Cook County Board President.
Daley Appoints Insiders To Three Aldermanic Vacancies
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There was a twinkle in his limpid brown eyes.
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Periwinkle eye shadow was dusted across her eyelids.
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Left, the editor: Matthew Winkler, who conceived Bloomberg News and retains the title editor in chief.
Bloomberg Without Bloomberg
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Both sides are unaware of the other until Zuckerberg's baby is officially launched and Saverin accidentally comes across a notice from the Winklevoss camp to take down the Facebook site.
Zorianna Kit: "The Social Network" review: a career-making performance by Jesse Eisenberg
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And after all, there is something to be said for taking time to winkle out the trail's secrets.
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I found periwinkles and primroses in full flower, bluebells, just coming along nicely thank you, grape hyacinths, and polyanthus.
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Twinkle lights filled the ceiling of the auditorium so that when you looked up, you had the illusion of sitting beneath a star-studded night sky.
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There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for awhile.
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The lights have twinkled on in Lucern, spread below us, lancing golden shafts into the lake.
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Dunfermline is taking money with a twinkle in its eye, paying a not unattractive 6.75% on the top band.
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They will be often be observed eating mussels from both reef and wreckage and also seem to favour winkles, which they pick delicately from kelp fronds before spitting out the remains of the shell.
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From the opening line of the film he has a twinkle in his eye that clues you in that this movie is going to be fun.
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The Insufferable Know-It-All: Might have looked better in periwinkle.
HP rides again
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State of the Union: Celebrate Michael Jackson's art, says Powell
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Zuckerberg allegedly entered into a verbal contract with the Winklevosses, promising to help build the site in return for equity.
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He realises the paramount importance of getting all the facts into the public domain before the press winkle them out.
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Zachary's eyes widened for a moment, but they soon twinkled with amusement.
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The avuncular Yorkshireman with the cloth cap and the polite twinkle was just a front.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wild geranium was already showing its pink stem and scarlet-edged leaves, themselves almost gorgeous enough to pass for flowers; the periwinkle, with its wreaths of shining foliage, was hanging in garlands over the precipitous descent; and the lily of the valley, the fragrant woodroof, and the silvery wild garlick, were just peeping from the earth in the most sheltered nooks.
The Ground-Ash
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He seemed to winkle something out from inside his shoe.
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Every time curtain of night arrives, electric lamp of cupcup twinkles like numerous star.
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‘I can drive all the way to Chennai in my Ford jeep,’ the former raja says with a twinkle in his eye.
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The types of drugs used are vincristine (from periwinkles), prednisone (a steroid), asparaginase (an enzyme) or daunorubicin (an antibiotic).
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Her blue eyes twinkled to reveal a gentle nature and shone as her lips were curved in a smile.
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Twinkle twinkle little star ... No one but a bloody fool would try to walk a mile with an arrow through his chest.
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I tried to get him to look at me, but he was finding his winkle-pickers fascinating.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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The multi-coloured roofs twinkle from a distance in the occasional sunshine, but usually it's raining or hailing.
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Marine gastropods (whelks and periwinkles) suffer sex determination defects due to tributyltin leaching from antifouling paints on ships' hulls.
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Stars twinkled in the night sky.
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His models wore white pan stick, triangular crimped wigs and periwinkle boots.
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The corolla of the normal periwinkle flower is salver-shaped and the stamens are located in the throat of the corolla tube.
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Birds not ringed as nestlings were aged and sexed according to the method of Jenni and Winkler.
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She's got a mischievous sense of humour and a twinkle in her eye.
The Sun
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Why, Jim," said Paul, who had a twinkle in his eye, "that's diplomacy, and the man who practises it is called a diplomatist or diplomat.
The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi
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His eyes twinkled with a humorsome light, but his face was shrewd, alert and aggressive.
The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
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Violets, woodrushes, Silene, Lychnis, periwinkles and Alchemilla mollis are all plants that will thrive in the dry, shady conditions provided by the hedge, and for a splash of colour I could use climbing nasturtiums or morning glory.
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Aside from the aforementioned toys, nothing is to be found bedecking the tree more interesting than inexpensive twinkle lights, cloth ornaments, and garland.
Mike Doyle: Macy's State Street Cost Cuts Christmas
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And now we have a Robbie Williams waxwork that has ‘real chest hair’ and ‘a twinkle in his eye, activated with hidden sensors’.
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This is the opinion of some Rip Van Winkle.
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With her long silky chestnut hair and a familiar twinkle in her eyes, Vivian had developed into quite an attractive young lady.
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Where was the old careless rapture, the twinkle, the fire?
Times, Sunday Times
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Come on, Rip Van Winkle , wake up! It's nearly lunchtime.
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The periwinkle is a kind of shrub; it grows at the foot of the oyster-tree, and twines round it as the ivy does the oak.
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
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It shifts to darkest blue-black and fades to a lighter, almost periwinkle blue.
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When I lived here twenty-odd years ago, I had almost no money and gathered mussels for my soup-pot, nettles, pried the meat out of winkles with a pin.
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A grin cracked across the man's stony face, and a twinkle gleamed from his eyes.
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On good days most of these twinkle and sparkle in the sun.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tucked down in boho Stockbridge, this crimson-walled diner twinkles with candlelight and feels as cosy as a New Orleans bar in a cyclone.
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I'd recommend a pale seafoam green, a soft salmony pink, and a pale periwinkle for shirt colors.
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Are winkles the most underrated shellfish in the sea?
Times, Sunday Times
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‘I knew from day one of joining the four-month course that passing the exam would be a cakewalk,’ he says, with a twinkle in his eyes.
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Her hair is freshly set in loose curls and her green eyes twinkle behind spectacles.
The Sun
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His eyes twinkled and when he smiled, his teeth looked bigger and whiter than ever.
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The ability of New Caledonian crows to make hook-like sticks which they use to winkle out food such as insect grubs is well-known.
Crows as Intelligent as Apes | Impact Lab
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A twinkle of amusement and excitement gleamed in his olive colored eyes.
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The dead waters of the Rhodes Wood Reservoir, ringed with poinsettia, twinkled alienly.
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Beyond the rooftop twinkled the lights of the city and the office buildings uptown.
THE VENDETTA DEFENCE
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That said, the softly spreading ajuga, native violet, periwinkle and members of the plectranthus family offer a variety of leaf colours and shapes and flower periodically.
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The day they resumed their regular racketball game, Mr. Ullman hit Mr. Winkler who had ducked behind him with his racket and gave him a black eye.
Three Who Thrived After Early Gaffes
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I was more confused by that, so I asked who Rip Van Winkle was.
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o 'time possible afore you; but allow me to express a hope as you won't reduce me to extremities; in saying wich, I merely quote wot the nobleman said to the fractious pennywinkle, ven he vouldn't come out of his shell by means of a pin, and he conseqvently began to be afeered that he should be obliged to crack him in the parlour door.'
The Pickwick Papers
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And then, just ere our hands met, a twinkle of -- oh -- such distant and controlled geniality quickened the many tiny wrinkles in the corner of the eyes; the clear blue of the eyes was suffused by an almost colourful warmth; the face, too, seemed similarly to suffuse; the thin lips, harsh-set the instant before, were as gracious as Bernhardt's when she moulds sound into speech.
CHAPTER I
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The basic color scheme is a soft buttery yellow for the cabinets, with periwinkle blue on the cabinet handles.
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In the village there lived a simple, good man named Rip Van Winkle.
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I made the mistake of looking up at her, only to see that the smile on her face had grown, the twinkle in her eyes gleaming more brightly then ever.
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Hence this appeal to gastropodologists, if such a term exists, to come to the rescue and explain the unique (laevorotatory) development of the humble periwinkle.
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She curtsied and continued forward, intercepting Christopher's mischievous twinkle.
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I'm like those women who discovered beehives and winkle-pickers back in the 1950s and still sport them today.
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It was with a twitch of this kind, and a certain indescribable twinkle of his somewhat melancholy eye, as he seemed intuitively to form a hasty conception of the oddity of his appearance to a stranger unused to the bush, that he welcomed me to his clearing.
Roughing It in the Bush
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Orpishurda, sitting next to Burnell, was assiduous in filling their glasses till a meniscus twinkled.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Thus we find, in no particular order, periwinkles, gooseberries, baneberries, greater celandine, feverfew, and sempervivum.
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The sapphire twinkled in the setting sun's light.
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The stars twinkle like so many stringed sitars.
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His eyes were bright blue with a roguish twinkle in them.
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The types of drugs used are vincristine (from periwinkles), prednisone (a steroid), asparaginase (an enzyme) or daunorubicin (an antibiotic).
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Item, in the adjoining pigeon-hole, a goodly collection of pebbles with holes in them, preserved for the same reason, in company with a crooked sixpence; item, neatly arranged in fanciful mosaics, several periwinkles, Blackamoor's teeth (I mean the shell so called), and other specimens of the conchiferous ingenuity of
My Novel — Complete
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We watch the lamplighter move along the streets lighting the gas lamps and soon Astoria twinkles like the sky above.
The Trouble With May Amelia
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Tanner saw the twinkle of amusement in the elf's eyes as he briefly faced him.
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You possess quite a mischievous twinkle.
The Sun
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He had an incredible technical ability and he was a star, he had a twinkle in his eye.
Times, Sunday Times
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Look beyond the crooner's perma-grin, the twinkle in the eye, the ever-bouncing quiff and there, on his cheeks and chin, was the unmistakable sheen of foundation.
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My friend will miss her; he told me she was young at heart, had a wicked sense of humour, and always had a twinkle in her eye.
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Anyway, recently the children asked to try some whelks and winkles, which were so vinegary they'd lost all their flavour, and then Megan asked to try the crab.
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Her long, straight blond hair was piled messily on top of her head and twinkled with sparkly butterfly clips and hairpins.
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a medieval prototype of Winkle, is explained as for "periwinkle," whereas it is a common Middle-English word, existing now in the shortened form wench, and means Child.
The Romance of Names
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Chutter-murra Wylo had so often indicated the exact locality of the stone, and had described its dire influence with such sincerity that, when it twinkled, a resolution which had been long in the back of my mind became wilful and imperative.
Tropic Days
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Gideon smiled to himself, loving her laugh and the way it made her eyes twinkle like lustrous sapphires.
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You're light on your feet for a hoofer, Twinkletoes.
The Legion of American Watchers
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Washington Irving " Rip Van Winkle " , " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Where was the old careless rapture, the twinkle, the fire?
Times, Sunday Times
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Blackpool failed to mount a serious run-chase in reply but Netherfield could not winkle out the last two wickets for a victory as the visitors finished on 143-8.
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A playful twinkle appeared in her emerald eyes.
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Crabs are a particular favourite of mine - shore crabs are numerous, and every other periwinkle shell seems to harbour a hermit crab.
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Bedding or wax begonias, heliotrope, impatiens, and Madagascar periwinkle can be moved indoors and grown as house plants over the winter.