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Example sentences for "faint twinkle"

  • If Lieutenant Luiz had been an Englishman he would probably have grinned, but he was too dignified a gentleman to do anything of that kind, though there was a faint twinkle in his languid dark eyes.

  • Nares listened with wrinkled forehead, leaning forward with both arms on the table, and then there was a faint twinkle in his eyes as he looked at his companion.

  • Dom Clemente glanced at the little green lattice on the white wall behind her with a faint twinkle in his eyes.

  • I suggest that you try him on some other subject than Buell, General Beauregard," said the bishop-general, a faint twinkle appearing in his eyes.

  • But there was a faint twinkle in those same nearsighted eyes as he replied in precise tones: "According to all the experience of centuries and all the mathematical formulae that can be deduced therefrom night is bound to be followed by day.

  • A faint twinkle appeared in either eye and then they laughed.

  • There was a faint twinkle in the speaker's eyes which Alton understood, for Atkinson, who was not an adept at trailing deer, had shot more than a wapiti.

  • Alton glanced at her with a faint twinkle in his eyes.

  • Brown glanced at her with a faint twinkle in his eyes.

  • It's not likely," and Macallister watched her with a faint twinkle in his eyes.

  • Mrs. Hatherly looked troubled, but there was a faint twinkle in her companion's eyes.

  • There was a faint twinkle in his eyes, though the rest of his countenance was grim, and he laid a hard hand on the other's shoulder.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after times; appeared before; army service; bade adieu; divine guidance; faint blush; faint flush; faint light; faint sigh; faint smile; faint sound; faint twinkle; faint voice; feet were; great evil; just claim; local habitation; more moderate; not enough; revolutionary action; set fire; shall deal; shell hole; stood motionless; sweet corn; thirds rule