"Blinks" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cape the priest's house northward blinks, To see St. Mary's Seminary guard The dead that sleep within the parish yard, In English faith—the parish church that links The present with the perished, for its walls Are of the clay that was the capital's, When halberdiers and musketeers ...
— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend
... lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head; Blinks but an hour or two; and then, ...
— Modern British Poetry • Various
... the leaves awaken My mother carries me in her golden arms; I'll soon put on my womanhood and marry The spirits of wood and water, but who can tell When I was born for the first time? I think I am much older than the eagle cock That blinks and blinks on Ballygawley Hill, And he is the oldest ...
— The Land Of Heart's Desire • William Butler Yeats
... Blinks of sunshine touched the lower face of the crag, and in their track the dark rock glittered with a steely luster, but trails of mist rolled among the crannies above. Below, a precipitous slope of small stones that the dalesmen call a scree ran down to a hollow strewn ...
— The Girl From Keller's - Sadie's Conquest • Harold Bindloss
... in white shall know The two friends passing by, and poplar smile All gold within; the church-top fowl shall glow To lure us on, and we shall rest awhile Where the wild apple blooms above the stile; The yellow frog beneath blinks up half bold, Then scares himself into the deeper green. And thus spring was for you in days of old, And thus will be when I too walk unseen By one that thinks me friend, the best ...
— Georgian Poetry 1920-22 • Various
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