"Blinking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my eyes, but could not, until Godfrey pulled me around to face him. I stood blinking at ...
— The Gloved Hand • Burton E. Stevenson
... wild ducks were dancing and feasting in the marshes. With wings outspread, tip to tip, they moved up and down in a large circle. Within the ring, around a small drum, sat the chosen singers, nodding their heads and blinking their eyes. ...
— Old Indian Legends • Zitkala-Sa
... a glass case. "Aw right," he said, blinking, and tossed upon the counter a package of Orduma cigarettes. "Old Atwater'd have convulsions, I reckon," he remarked, "if he had to lay awake and listen to all that noise. Price ain't changed," he added, referring humorously to the purchase ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington
... paused. He stood considering a moment, his face and ragged beard thrown out—a spot of greyish white—against the figures behind, his eyes blinking painfully under ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... out into the street, blinking in the sudden sunlight, he found it crowded close with quiet people. So thick they stood, he could not press his way along the sidewalk. It was not a mob, for there was no shouting or disorder; yet, intermittently, there rose a great murmur, such as the waves make or the leaves, the muttering of ...
— Pirate Gold • Frederic Jesup Stimson
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