It is part of the said luck that they have been here," answered Dalfin, with his eyes twinkling as he bowed to us.
The most effective analogy in this respect was the twinkling of the stars in the heavens; but my hearers were greatly amazed to think that such lights could be under the command of man.
The walls were of such exquisitely grooved and polished red mahogany that the candle-light was reflected in them as in mirrors; one seemed to be surrounded by twinkling red stars.
Emboldened by his twinkling eyes, his crooked, friendly smile, eager to question him, I drew nearer.
I remarked late at night a solitary light twinkling from a remote lattice of one of its towers.
Roger led right on as if he knew the way well, and in a twinklingwere they come to a postern in the wall betwixt the East Gate and the South.
From the dripping oars came twinkling lines of light, that rayed out and spread like the opened sticks of a fan upon the sea.
Hermione saw the wreaths of pale smoke curling up and evaporating in the shining, twinkling air, which seemed full of joyous, dancing atoms.
At the far end of the street two twinkling lights appeared.
Sarakoff's eyes were twinkling roguishly, so I began, keeping my gaze on the table.
He asked me if we were at Madison Street, saying that he wanted to go to the Union Depot.
Scanlan, his brother John, and two or three other Irish-Americans of prominence.
Cronin, and his association with the friends of Alexander Sullivan--all these circumstances caused him to be placed under arrest, although he was subsequently released.
I do not," emphatically replied O'Sullivan, "I cannot understand what were the motives of the man who went for him.
Strange to say, not one of them thought of connecting the ghastly discovery with the missing doctor.
When the wagon had been loaded Mortensen was told to go out to Lincoln and Belmont avenues and wait, his customer saying that he would take a cable car.
From here he went to Titusville and thence to Clearfield, in the same state, where in 1866 he held a good position in a store.
The expressman who hauled the goods from the Clark street flat was still to be found.
When ten years of age he was placed in the care of the Christian Brothers at the Academy of St. Catherines.
There was no doubt but what the coroner's jury believed that Alexander Sullivan was connected with the conspiracy, but it was largely influenced by hearsay evidence.
Mertes had said nothing of this experience until he fell in with a party of friends who were discussing the discovery in the cottage.
In the twinkling of an eye the Demon transported him to the steps of the palace.
In a twinkling he came up, pale with heat, and covered with dust, his eyes almost starting from his head and his cheeks trembling with agitation.
In a twinkling the men were back in their saddles and, in irregular formation, threading the aisles of thicket at a canter.
With a howl of dismay he fled towards the undergrowth, his yellow slippers twinkling against the dun background of the sand.
A little girl, radiant and beautiful, shapely as a fairy and exquisitely dressed, was dancing gracefully in the middle of the lonely road, whirling slowly this way and that, her dainty feet twinkling in sprightly fashion.
His nose was broad, and stuck up a little; but his eyes were twinkling and merry.
The bear had twinkling black eyes, and its body looked as if it had been pumped full of air.
His face was cheery and his eyes twinkling with humor, so Polly and Button-Bright were not at all afraid of the wonderful personage whose fame as a humbug magician had spread throughout the world.
In a twinkling the house was filled from stage to topmost gallery.
For while it pouts, her fingers wrestle, Twinkling the audacious leaves between, Till round they turn and down they nestle-- Is not the dear mark still to be seen?
The reason of which must surely be obvious from the explanation I have just offered,” said Mr. Seymour: “the sensation of light is not exchanged for that of darkness in so short a period as the twinkling of the eye.
Clive Darrell, in a mere twinkling as it seemed, had become quite an old stager at the school.
A pair of twinkling eyes were wont to look down upon the school, whether from his seat in Chapel, or from the dais in Hall.
Only a malicious smile, which played upon their dark faces, and the restless and inquisitive movements of their twinkling eyes, gave them any appearance of being aught but lifeless statues.
Benny watched the star twinklingso far above him, and wondered what it could be.
Hour after hour he wandered up and down in front of the huge building, watching the twinkling lights in its many windows.
But there is a great difference between Rampolla and Bonpre," said Gherardi, with twinkling eyes, "Bonpre is scarcely ever in Rome.
Suddenly before us, across the pave, shone out a twinkling trail--the wakened eyes of the cubes that formed it, marking out a pathway for us to follow.
Walls, floor and roof were composed of the same substance as the great pillars, the wall of the outer chamber; filled like them with dimmed replicas of the twinkling eye points.
I shook my fists at the twinkling wall, strove to kick and smite it like an angry child, cursed it--not childishly.
They broke from it, disintegrating it; circled about us, curiously, interestedly, twinkling at us from their deep sparkling points of eyes.
An instant I tottered dizzily; was held; stood beside Norhala upon a little, level twinkling eyed platform; upon her other side swayed Drake.
In a twinkling Nan had flown upstairs, roused Mary and helped her to get ready and was hooded and cloaked and standing in the hall-way.
In a twinkling the soft, woolly garment was wrapped securely about the child and Nan had her two stout arms around her and was half dragging, half carrying her in the direction of the distant fence.
At the hour of death, in the twinkling of an eye, He will cause fair fruits to ripen on the tree of your soul.
