"Twinkle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... despreciar spurn, neglect, reject. desprender(se) fall, tear, separate, issue from, arise, relax one's hold, let go. desprendido, -a loosened, falling, torn, broken. despus adv. afterward, then. despuntar begin to dawn. desquiciarse be unhinged, shake. destellar flash, twinkle. desterrar banish, exile. destilar drip. destino m. destiny, fate, lot. desvanecerse vanish, disappear, fade away. desvanecido, -a dizzy, vague, faint. desvaro m. delirium, raving. desventura f. misfortune, misery. detener detain, stop, halt. detenido, ...
— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup
... pipeful of tobacco with his pocket-knife; chose a clay; filled, lit it, and smoked. Two glasses of wine had sufficed him, for he was an abstemious man: but, for all his hard life, he could enjoy comfort. He found it here; in the good food, the generous liquor, the twinkle on the glass and decanter, the ill-executed but solid portraits on the walls, the hearthrug soft beneath his sole, the April combination of sunshine slanting through the window and a brisk but not oppressive coal fire on ...
— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... was able to keep without difficulty, led by the rock where the three lads were to meet, he had not gone far when he caught the starlike twinkle of a point of light, which told him he was ...
— Through Forest and Fire - Wild-Woods Series No. 1 • Edward Ellis
... Nell, rapturously, as one moment we caught the glitter of a distant lake, the next the twinkle of a reedy pool overhung with ...
— Harper's Young People, June 1, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... Fleet, you are narrow," she said, with a controversial twinkle in her eye. "Why not toward a ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe
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