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Definition of Blinked
1. blink [v] - See also: blink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blinked
Literary usage of Blinked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff by Marie Bashkirtseff, Arthur D. Hall (1913)
"Papa blinked his eyelids as usual. I was not at all hungry; It was time to go to
the theatre, which is in the garden, like the restaurant. ..."
2. Tolternicus, Astronomer of Thorn: A Tragedy in Five Acts by jr Otto Carl Gsantner (1915)
"but he blinked again; so I quoth again, quoth I: "Get thee behind me, Satan. ...
I sat and looked at him and he sat and blinked at me. ..."
3. The City of Pleasure: A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Arnold Bennett (1907)
"There was a considerable pause, but in the end the eyes blinked. ... The eyes
blinked. "Excellent! Your first word is 'I.' Let us go to the next word. ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... and the tree, with every one of its wicked leaves, blinked, and blinked, and
blinked at him. Presently he began to cry again, and then stopped his ..."
5. Evil eye in the Western Highlands by Robert Craig Maclagan (1902)
"In the part of Ireland nearest to Scotland at any rate, and so far as the writer
knows also in other places, the expression used in English is " blinked. ..."
6. The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Waldo Burgess (1920)
"Hare and blinked. Jumper looked at Prickly Porky and blinked. Then all looked at
Paddy the Beaver and finally at Old Mother Nature, and all blinked. ..."
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