blink-eyed

First, it was a blink-eyed policy that plunged us into the war at all; and secondly, it was the height of human folly to waste our resources in the erroneous belief that the highly trained military men of France could be permanently subjugated in the Mediterranean by the cowardly, treacherous villains of which the Roman States armies and Governments were composed.

Drake Nelson and Napoleon Runciman, Walter 1919

"Yer blink-eyed yard er silk, I'm a goin 'to turn you cat-out-the-skin an' sell yer tail fer a fancy dustin'-brush!"

A Night Out Edward Henry Peple 1896

Here, too, at Matthew Branthwaite's side, sits little blink-eyed Reuben Thwaite, who _has_ seen the

The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Hall Caine 1892

This was no other than little blink-eyed Reuben Thwaite.

The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Hall Caine 1892

"And what is it?" says the little blink-eyed dalesman.

The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Hall Caine 1892