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- adverb In a
twinkling way.
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Examples
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Raspberry brocade wallpaper covered the walls, and the ormolu cabinets, gold candlesticks, gilt chairs, and chandeliers all contributed to a scene of twinklingly opulent splendor.
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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Raspberry brocade wallpaper covered the walls, and the ormolu cabinets, gold candlesticks, gilt chairs, and chandeliers all contributed to a scene of twinklingly opulent splendor.
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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Raspberry brocade wallpaper covered the walls, and the ormolu cabinets, gold candlesticks, gilt chairs, and chandeliers all contributed to a scene of twinklingly opulent splendor.
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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Raspberry brocade wallpaper covered the walls, and the ormolu cabinets, gold candlesticks, gilt chairs, and chandeliers all contributed to a scene of twinklingly opulent splendor.
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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Irish-blue eyes, alternately dreamy and twinklingly alert, were deeply set in a high-cheeked-boned, bronzed face, with a long upper-lipped, grimly-humorous mouth.
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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"Var you goes?" asked the girl shyly -- yet we might almost say twinklingly.
The Prairie Chief 1859
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Newsnight too draws comments, though not nearly as many as Question Time – perhaps because Question Time's ask-and-answer format is more comment-friendly, or maybe because of a general sense that while David Dimbleby twinklingly acknowledges his online nickname The Dimblebot – though, alas, @dimblebot is not him, Jeremy Paxman would be liable to come down and give you a good clip round the ear if he found you tweeting about instead of paying attention to his show.
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“You’ve never been here before,” she said twinklingly, ever amused.
The Town Chuck Hogan 2004
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Of course the Englishman had not visited and thoroughly studied such a city as Rouen, Crailey confessed, twinklingly; but, after all, wasn't there some truth in "Martin
The Two Vanrevels Booth Tarkington 1907
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