Слово "twinkle". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

He held out his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric point in the dark hollow of his hand.

A star twinkled.

He had an air of utter assurance, of displeasing insolence about him, and there was a twinkle of malice in his bold eyes as he stared at Scarlett, until finally, feeling his gaze, she looked toward him.

'Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle—' and went on so long that they had to pinch it to make it stop.

And the old man would twinkle like a jovial, wicked old satyr behind his monocle.

But the finest thing, she said, was to lie on a sand bank in the quiet moonlit sea, near the shore, gazing at the lights of the near-by town, that twinkled like hundreds of stars, and listening to the sounds of music, the noise of carriages, the voices of human beings, and the merry pealing of the bells in the church steeples.

The best known among them was a small fat pig named Squealer, with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice.

When he realized what I was talking about, that there were twinkle-bells of sunshine in the room, he smiled like a weather man, like an ecstatic patron of recurrent light, and repeated the news to Daisy. “What do you think of that?

"I saw a twinkle in his eyes, and for a moment the left one seemed to wink ever so slightly.

He always said things in the same slow melancholy way but half the time there was a twinkle underneath it.

"What is your style, Superintendent?" The superintendent met the twinkle in Poirot's eyes with an answering twinkle in his own.

All this was done in the twinkling of an eye.

'I'm a poor man, your Majesty,' the Hatter began, in a trembling voice, '—and I hadn't begun my tea—not above a week or so—and what with the bread-and-butter getting so thin—and the twinkling of the tea—'

'Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle—' and went on so long that they had to pinch it to make it stop.

At 5p. m. the reception room was empty except for the secretary, who gave him a twinkly smile that ignored Morrison's pallor and dishevelled appearance. "Mr Donatti?" she said into the intercom. "Mr Morrison to see you. " She nodded to Morrison.

Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.

On close scrutiny, however, could be detected an underlying stratum of quiet humour; and in the twinkle of a small greyish eye there was evidence that its owner could keenly relish a joke, or, at times, perpetrate one.

'I'm a poor man,' the Hatter went on, 'and most things twinkled after that—only the March Hare said—'

Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.

Then his eyes twinkled.

On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby’s house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn.