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Sentences ending with wink

A French corporal, with coat unbuttoned in a homely way, a skullcap on his head, and a short pipe in his mouth, came from behind a corner of the shed and approached Pierre with a friendly wink. [2]
Not a single wink! [5]
I have heard what elopements are like," continued Dolokhov with a wink. [2]
He saw there was something wrong, and he did not know whether to speak or hold his tongue; or, as he said to himself, he "didn't know which eye to wink. [11]
Only that morning, this gentleman, in glancing through the real estate column of his newspaper, had fallen upon a deed of sale which made him wink. [9]
We knock up the sleeping hostlers, change horses, and go on again, dead sleepy, but unable to get a wink. [4]
Gradually, irksomely, but surely and steadily, it developed, and at last it took definite form as a pretty successful wink. [5]
But frankness was not an ingredient of the Honourable Hilary's nature, and Austen was not the kind of man who would accept a hint and a wink. [9]
She was a little uncomfortable, and pretended not to see Mr. Brent's wink. [9]
He got to know too much, y' know," he concluded, with a wicked wink. [9]

Short sentences using wink

The wink was kindly, however. [11]
I shan't sleep a wink! [4]
Did she wink? [9]

More example sentences with the word wink in them

Does it make you wink, and choke, and your eyes water, and your breath come short--does it? [12]
Bascom smuggled a wink to me, and proffered a slice of the fruit to puss. [5]
I noticed, however, what I should call a palpebral spasm, affecting the eyelid and muscles of one side, which, if it were intended for the facial gesture called a wink, might lead me to suspect a disposition to be satirical on his part. [6]
Mr. Billings' answer was to wink, very slowly, with one eye; and shortly after these pleasantries were over, the case was called. [9]
Ditmar's reply was to wink at her. [9]
Mr. Merrill's answer to this question was a wink, whereupon he, too, departed. [9]
In just no time, five hundred knights were scrambling into their saddles, and before you could wink a widely scattering drove were under way and clattering down upon me. [5]
I think now that it was a cowardly thing to crack the patient old fellows over the face and eyes, and make them wink in their meek manner. [4]
Shangois did not stir, nor show by even the wink of an eyelid that he recognised the laughter, or thought that he was being laughed at. [11]
And s'pose he steps in here any minute, and sings out my name before I can throw him a wink to keep quiet? [5]
Almost before he realized what had happened he was following Mr. Duncan out of the Pelican House, when the storekeeper was mystified once more by a nudge and another wink from Mr. Bixby, conveying unbounded admiration. [9]
Its professors and practitioners are usually shrewd people; they are very serious with the public, but wink and laugh a good deal among themselves. [6]
It is not only true that a fortune may be made here in a day or lost here in a day, but that a nod and a wink here enable people all over the land to ruin others or ruin themselves with celerity. [4]
For a wink of me eye, an' away you'd go, leaving your tails behind you--and pass that shoulder of bear, you pirates, till I come to it sideways, like a hog to war. [11]
The King did not see the wink, but he had caught a tone in the voice of the invader, which brought, as I thought, a slight flush to his swarthy cheek. [11]
I can't say, never before having had a young woman wink at me. [9]
They were good men, every one, but they had two defects which I couldn't cure, and so had to wink at: they wouldn't lay aside their armor, and they would "knock down" fare --I mean rob the company. [5]
And though Aunt Lucy dozed, not a wink of sleep did my lady get through all of those weary twelve hours. [9]
The windows were latticed in little diamond panes, that seemed to wink and blink upon the passengers as if they were dim of sight. [12]
The young man John got off a little wink, and pointed slyly with his thumb in the direction of our diminutive friend, for whom he seemed to think this speech was intended. [6]
My uncle took it down without a wink, as if it had been water, and seemed relieved. [4]
Then, when the horses were to, in he came like a Harlequin, and before they had gone a mile, out came the watch and the fire-box together, and Kit's mother as wide awake again, with no hope of a wink of sleep for that stage. [12]
It goes out from your toe, rushes away to Timbuctoo, and is back in your toe before you can wink. [11]
Others of the force might wink at it; but his mind appeared to sit severely upright upon the cold platform of Penalty, in beholding breaches of the statutes. [11]
I waited patiently for the thought, of which this wink was the blossom, to come to fruit in words. [6]
Observe that his fingers are curled as if in the act of tickling, and that his face is represented with a wink, as he appeared when committing his barbarous murders. [12]
But those fishy eyes of his were so alert that we had not even opportunity to wink. [9]
Presently the intelligence came back with a snap that made him wink, as he answered,--Jest so. [6]
As we went by our house I wished I hadn't sent Mary Jane out of town; because now if I could tip her the wink she'd light out and save me, and blow on our dead-beats. [5]
And if these be such a thing as an implied wink, Honora received one as he proceeded to explain what he was pleased to call the bona-fide nature of the transactions of Dallam and Spence. [9]
I tried to be polite to him; offered him a snack"--(Sellers delivered a large wink to Hawkins from behind his hand), "but he declined, and said he wasn't hungry" (another sarcastic wink); "so I brought some apples" (doublewink), "and he ate a couple of--" "What! [5]
Ten o'clock came, and the noise of vehicles ceased, scattered lights began to wink out, all straggling foot-passengers disappeared, the village betook itself to its slumbers and left the small watcher alone with the silence and the ghosts. [5]
Go away naked and come back clothed, empty and come back filled, simple and come back with a wink of knowledge, penniless and come back with the price of numerous vergees of land, and you might answer the island catechism without fear. [11]
He gets leave and brings me here and coaxes me back to life again--with not a wink of sleep for him these five days past till now. [11]
The Captain had always carried under his arm a shapeless bundle which he would confide to Ned with a knowing wink. [9]
Well, we swarmed along down the river road, just carrying on like wildcats; and to make it more scary the sky was darking up, and the lightning beginning to wink and flitter, and the wind to shiver amongst the leaves. [5]
He shall know all about that to-morrow, and in the mean time, as it's rather late, I'll try and get a wink of the balmy. [12]
Ignorance of foreign affairs, and of economic science, the American people have in times past winked at; but they will not always wink at it. [4]
Each to be accompanied with a wink. [6]
You didn't sleep a wink last night, thinking of George. [9]
Above all things (between you and me) never tell Ma any of your troubles; she never slept a wink the night your last letter came, and she looks distressed yet. [5]

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