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• That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Art, Eye, Owl

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.282, Dell

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• ...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Real, Ems

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.993, Delphi Classics

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• Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the southward flying swallow Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days.

  Will Carleton

  Sweet, Fall, Autumn

  Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.99, Applewood Books

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• There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

  Herman Melville

  Order, Law, Transgression

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.2012, Delphi Classics

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• Is it a man walking on the beach, winking at the girls and looking for going to bed? Is it someone who wears a lot of gold chains and rings and sits at the bar? Because this is not me! I am very, very Latin, but not so much lover.

  Antonio Banderas

  Girl, Beach, Latin

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• [John] McCain seemed to be winking to the Right, and [Barack] Obama seemed to be winking to the Left. Neither one of them - if McCain had been elected we'd still be where we are on gay rights.

  Bill Ayers

  Gay, Rights, Barack

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• Okay, so you want your other nipple pierced," she said pulling up a chair and getting her supplies ready. "She wants my other nipple pierced," he replied winking at.

  Abbi Glines

  Want, Nipples, Chairs

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 1: Breathe; Because of Low; While It Lasts”, p.633, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.

  Robert Jordan

  Time, Men, Busy

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.29, Macmillan

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• The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Giving, Three

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Now, now, you aren't afraid of monsters in the dark, are you?" I caught a flash of her eyes, winking wickedly at me. "No," I said, shivering. After all, I was one of them.

  Kiersten White

  Eye, Dark, Monsters

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• His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Spring

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 2, sc. 3, l. [22]

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• A club there is of smokers--dare you come
  To that close, clouded, hot, narcotic room?
  When, midnight past, the very candles seem
  Dying for air, and give a ghastly gleam;
  When curling fumes in lazy wreaths arise,
  And prosing topers rub their winking eyes.

  George Crabbe

  Eye, Past, Air

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.180

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• ...Why are all these masks winking?" Jason pointed around the room with his fork. The loremaster dabbed at his mouth with a frilled purple napkin. "One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

  Brandon Mull

  Eye, Purple, Deception

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight and dancing and revels, if only you will come back when spring comes again.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Spring, Dancing, Stories

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.279, Macmillan

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• The Right said, [Barack Obama] is lying, he's a socialist who pals around with terrorists, he's a secret Muslim and blah blah blah. That was their line. The liberals all said, He's winking at me, I can feel him winking in my direction. He wasn't winking. He said exactly who he was and he's lived that out perfectly.

  Bill Ayers

  Lying, Secret, Pals

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• I would say probably Paris [Hilton]. Because to me that's her in character and she kind was always sort of winking at the camera. There was satire I think involved in what she was doing. I like to think there was.

  Alexa Chung

  Character, Thinking, Paris

  "Alexa Chung Wants to Bring Uggs Back, 2002 Style". Interview with Nikki Ogunnaike, www.elle.com. October 7, 2016.

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• The most work he did on [the urinals] was to run a brush once or twice apiece, singing some song as loud as he could in time to the swishing brush; then he'd splash in some Clorox and he'd be through. ... And when the Big Nurse...came in to check McMurphy's cleaning assignment personally, she brought a little compact mirror and she held it under the rim of the bowls. She walked along shaking her head and saying, "Why, this is an outrage... an outrage..." at every bowl. McMurphy sidled right along beside her, winking down his nose and saying in answer, "No; that's a toilet bowl...a TOILET bowl.

  Ken Kesey

  Running, Song, Mcmurphy

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• You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. What I'm saying is that I don't think you should know you're in a movie. I don't like it when actors are winking at the audience and saying, 'Right, isn't this funny? Are you with me?'

  Steve Carell

  Character, Thinking, Laughing

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• Kai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive's profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous, but young and inarguably good-looking. His prison photo showed him flippantly winking at the camera. Kai hated him immediately.

  Marissa Meyer

  Cameras, Prison, Looking Good

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• The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doing. He merges himself within the surroundings and moves along with it. These are the principles of mental hygiene.

  Zhuangzi

  Baby, Moving, Eye

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• I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.

  Robert Altman

  Art, Crazy, Thinking

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• An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there, under the clouds, a Hawaiian string quartet, lounge, concessions and, a thousand feet below, New York-a garden of golden lights winking on and off, automobiles, trucks winding in and out, and not a sound. All as silent as a dead city-and it looks adagio down there.

  Dawn Powell

  New York, Garden, Cities

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were dull. She had caught a glimpse of another world and she knew it existed somewhere, the world that had created trains, bridges, telegraph wires and signal lights winking in the night. She had to wait she thought, and grow up to that world. - Dagny Taggart

  Ayn Rand

  Children, Growing Up, Night

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