" "Can't," repeated Perry, winking audaciously at Miss Brownell.
Aunt Elizabeth had not yet come to bed so the blind was still up and Emily saw a dear, friendly star winking down at her.
" he said, winking at Mrs.
She descended a little hill, jumped from stone to stone across a woodland brook, startling the drowsy frogs, who were always winking and blinking in the morning sun.
The moon was hidden by clouds, but clear stretches of sky showed thick-studded clusters of stars brightly winking.
Whether is it of my words or that red jealous eye just winking itself out?
I've caught four times as many, so the pickerel is mine," retorted Reddy, winking at Little Joe Otter.
" "I heard he was taking notice already," said Captain Jim, winking at Gilbert.
CHAPTER 4 THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.
Shoo wer niver soa handsome, but what a body mud look at her 'bout winking.
He seemed a sullen, patient child; hardened, perhaps, to ill-treatment: he would stand Hindley's blows without winking or shedding a tear, and my pinches moved him only to draw in a breath and open his eyes, as if he had hurt himself by accident, and nobody was to blame.
Not anxious to come in contact with their fangs, I sat still; but, imagining they would scarcely understand tacit insults, I unfortunately indulged in winking and making faces at the trio, and some turn of my physiognomy so irritated madam, that she suddenly broke into a fury and leapt on my knees.
The group about him opened, and his comrade in misfortune was discovered lying quietly in the snow with all the pretty color shocked out of her face by the fall, and winking rapidly, as if half stunned.
They thought us sweet enough then," said Mr Glegg, winking pleasantly; while Mr Pullet, at the suggestion of sweetness, took a little more sugar.
" "Ay, that's a pleasant sort o'risk, that is," said Mr Glegg, indiscreetly winking at Tom, who couldn't avoid smiling.
His weakness did not lie on the side of scrupulosity; but the largest amount of winking, however significant, is not equivalent to seeing through a stone wall; and confident as Mr Tulliver was in his principle that water was water, and in the direct inference that Pivart had not a leg to stand on in this affair of irrigation, he had an uncomfortable suspicion that Wakem had more law to show against this (rationally) irrefragable inference than Gore could show for it.
" said Mr Glegg, winking pleasantly at the company.
" "I believe you," said Mr Tulliver, winking, and turning his head on one side; "but that's where it is.
Byles the butcher as his bill has been running on for the best o' joints since last Michaelmas was a twelvemonth—I don't want anybody to come and tell me as there's been more going on nor the Prayer-book's got a service for—I don't want to stand winking and blinking and thinking.
I knew the reason why she ran away," said Raffles, winking slowly as he looked sideways at Will.
