I blinked and dropped a curtsy, which seemed to satisfy my father for the moment. |
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For some unfathomable reason, her eyes filled with tears at the perceived snub and she quickly blinked them away. |
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Her mother's voice broke helplessly, and she blinked rapidly, pulling her daughter in for a tight embrace. |
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An alarm sounded, warning screens blinked and to Petrov's horror a computer map showed the hostile launch of a US nuclear warhead. |
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The girl blinked, looking at the 19 year old with shoulder length dark blue hair and dark brown eyes. |
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His over-magnified eyes blinked owlishly and he smiled a little, revealing horse-like buck teeth. |
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I heard a humming and the dozen fluorescent lights started to flicker on and I blinked, squinting at the bright light. |
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Just as I wondered what he was doing right now, a message blinked on my handphone. |
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Will blinked the sweat out of his eyes as he worked furiously on cracking the safe. |
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He blinked once or twice and the dark shape ran back and forth in front of his gaze. |
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Charlotte blinked as Marta Cumming's tiny frame cartwheeled across the lawn. |
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Josh's eyes opened slowly, and he blinked a couple of times before he turned his gaze to me. |
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Not even Elizabeth could create such clever faces, like optical illusions that changed when you blinked. |
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I blinked, a little confused by the sudden change in conversation, but quickly nodded. |
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His deep reflecting eyes blinked back, two perfect ovals set as polished gems trying to communicate. |
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The pile of books moved and a bespectacled man about his age blinked at him owlishly. |
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As the blinding sunburst of light faded into fairy dust around him, Sam blinked. |
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She felt tears well up in her eyes and when she blinked they finally escaped to roll down her pallid face. |
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Drums beating, cymbals clashing, the dragons blinked and leaped about athletically. |
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She blinked and shrugged, suddenly back in my room and not up in the clouds. |
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She blinked her cloudy eyes, a hand drifting downwards towards her abdomen where her body still tingled. |
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I stumbled on uneven terrain and slid on icy patches, but he never blinked a big brown eye at my clumsiness. |
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Marva blinked, and examined Hank more closely, pulling the sunglasses halfway down her pert nose, exposing a pair of pale blue eyes. |
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Giselle blinked with her long, false eyelashes, then began to lead the way, Desiree trailing behind her. |
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I blinked furiously, quite fascinated by the fact she's being so open with me. |
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The robot blinked once, accessing its database of snappy comebacks before selecting an answer. |
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After a few moments of complete incomprehension, Em broke out of her daze and blinked up at her fellow instrumentalists. |
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She blinked and slowly remembered what had occurred when she had been innocently picking flowers in the meadow. |
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He blinked confusedly, stood up, pulled the grass out of his hair, straightened his tie and cleared his throat. |
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She blinked for a moment against the bright flare of lights that exploded in her eyes, and waited for it to clear. |
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Blade blinked her eyes open groggily, wincing at the bright sunlight that flooded her face. |
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She blinked in surprise as a corpulent man sat down next to her and settled in. |
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He blinked sleepily at me, then realized what he was doing and immediately went into a flurry of apologies and embarrassment. |
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He cringed away from Arun, eyes wide, then blinked and appeared to recognize the trapper. |
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The sides of his lips curled upwards ever so slightly that if you had even blinked for a millisecond you would have missed it. |
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I blinked and realized a pair of ears poked out of the mass of furriness and it turned out to be an animal of some kind. |
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Her violet colored eyes blinked rapidly and she nervously glanced down at the clipboard. |
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She blinked her eyes open a few times, giving them time to adjust to the harsh, glaring light presented before her. |
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He took my hand and we started to promenade as I mentally blinked in the fact that we were openly holding hands. |
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She blinked once in surprise, and then her brow lowered and her dark eyes glittered with rage. |
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Confused, I blinked open an eye and found one of our lab buddies staring down at me with an amused glitter in his bright blue eyes. |
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Hadleigh blinked and covered her eyes wishing that her pounding headache would stop pulsating behind her eyes. |
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I blinked a few times before rising from the bed to get dressed and showered for school. |
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Nick blinked in puzzled surprise at the sight that greeted his tired eyes as they entered the camp. |
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He checked his watch and blinked twice when the green digital clock told him it was half past eleven. |
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He blinked, then grinned his huge, cheesy grin, and pointed to the wall next to him. |
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His ears pricked, trying to identify the sound which had cut even through the grumble of the surf, and then he blinked in disbelief. |
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He rubbed his eyes, which were smeared with faint lines of black eyeliner, and blinked at Alice as if in a daze. |
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He winked and blinked, and thought it all frightfully monotonous out there on the flat, and presently dropped asleep, sitting bolt upright. |
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He blinked, his foggy vision slowly clearing, and stood, realizing that the last watch of the night was over, and the king was awake. |
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I blinked repeatedly, trying to accustom my eyes to the bright light from the sun. |
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Her vision blurred slightly with a sudden flow of tears that welled up in her eyes and she blinked them away. |
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Weyler is one of those who went out on the open sea in tiny boats, looking the whalers in the eye until they finally blinked. |
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The rectory blinked in amber glitters between a scraggly screen of kapok trees fronting it. |
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Miguel blinked, appalled and overwhelmed before rationally reasoning with himself, as all mathematicians can. |
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He blinked at her quizzically a few times, and then looked back at his wound, and winced in pain. |
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It brushed against my window, and I, lying there at the window seat, opened my eyes and blinked them once or twice. |
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Bright green eyes lined in red blinked up at me and my stomach dropped as I pulled my baby stepbrother into a hug. |
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In the alcoves and rooms once assumed empty, rows and columns blinked their patient attention. |
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I blinked my eyes blearily and opened my mouth to yawn, I felt thick and slow. |
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Becca blinked a few more times before creeping out of the shower and relocking the door. |
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As Jim looked at a control pad next to the door leading to the ship a light on it blinked amber, and then turned to green. |
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Like your eyelashes, so blond they were only noticeable when you blinked and the top row met the bottom in a layer of double thickness. |
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I turned to face the speaker and blinked in surprise as I saw him standing there, dressed in his usual checked shirt and hunting leathers. |
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Blue eyes blinked in shock, then the colour rose ever so slowly into her face. |
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She stared at the crowd with enormous owl-like eyes that blinked in mechanical measure just above a slight aquiline nose. |
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The astonished lone drinker blinked when three foaming pints of Stella appeared on the bar before him. |
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A few lights blinked out across the desert-like prairie, a land of strong, ruddy dawns and drawn, bluish-yellow evenings. |
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Shane blinked a few times to get used to the bright rays of sunshine beaming in through the window. |
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She blinked balefully down her long, greasy nose at me and then grabbed his arm, wordlessly dragging him off to the dance floor. |
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Alyssa blinked her heavily mascaraed eyes at my short friend, clearly taken aback. |
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The ceiling lights lit in a sequence from the aft deck to the bow of the ship and the floor lighting blinked twice before staying on. |
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His eyes were red from lack of sleep and he blinked repeatedly to stop tears as he walked through the crowds. |
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Robert blinked in the sudden semi-darkness, the only illumination being the moonlight which shone through cracks in the curtains. |
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Sighing tiredly, he blinked once and cleared his sight of the fog that had begun settling around him. |
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I felt tears approaching, but I blinked them away as I crossed the room to his bedside. |
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Then, at three minutes past the hour, the digital clock blinked and set itself back exactly one hour. |
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A mew broke into Grace's thoughts, and she blinked down at the small kitten, who was attempting to make off with her fishnets. |
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The kitten blinked at him sleepily, like another cat that he knew, and mewled. |
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Greg blinked, taking in her freshly scrubbed face, blue towelling robe and slippers and the untidy way her hair was piled on top of her head. |
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The somber youth looked at her from underneath his shaggy bangs, and blinked. |
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Rick blinked, not understanding for the briefest of moments, until it clicked and his eyes widened in shock. |
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Sara blinked back the tears of hope and happiness and fear and relief before lifting her eyes to offer him a small and tremulous smile. |
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He felt his lips quivering, and blinked through the mist that had blurred his vision. |
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She blinked a few times, slowly becoming aware of the figure she still clutched to on her left, and a soft moan of pain at her right. |
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He blinked at me, no doubt wondering how I knew, but caught my arm when I tried to shove past him. |
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Chris blinked, a bit of dry laughter seeping through his lips as he slapped a hand over his eyes. |
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The seven members blinked blankly back at him, all trying to look as if they understood. |
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He blinked as he felt her breath on his neck, her brown eyes watching him with a playful twinkle. |
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But he merely blinked to rid himself of the hypnotizing glare, and the twist of the smirk was back on his face again. |
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He blinked quickly and then turned to look at the half open door where his mother was leaning inside. |
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Arielle blinked twice before opening her eyes fully and staring at Luke with her usual cheery smile. |
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The door opened and a tall thin man appeared, Koishi blinked and quickly stepped away. |
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He opened his eyes and quickly blinked as the rainwater seeped into his eyes. |
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I felt my eyes mist at the mention of my father's name, and then blinked the tears back. |
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Tears threatened to flood her eyes and she blinked them back, only to encourage them to overflow. |
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Victorian morality and its inherent contradictions wouldn't have blinked at the pair's duplicity. |
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It was traveling faster than most small planes and he watched the white light blinked out. |
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A small red light blinked, indicating that the water level was rapidly falling. |
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As they prepared to go against whatever was up ahead, the emergency lights blinked out without warning. |
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After a few seconds, the antenna stopped moving and another light blinked on. |
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You punched some buttons and a few lights blinked and in a matter of moments the computer solved a math problem. |
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The overhead lights blinked once, then went out, casting the compartment in darkness. |
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The lights blinked again before finally going out, but the candles provided the cabin with plenty of light. |
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As the sun set, the fluorescent jetty lights blinked on, producing pools of glittering reflections on the dark surface. |
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From behind blocky horn-rimmed glasses he blinked out at the world like a perpetually startled and slightly confused owl. |
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I blinked and moved the mouse around the computer screen, clicking on the Internet icon. |
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Brian blinked, hesitated, and slowly waved a hand in front of his friend's unblinking eyes. |
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When she blinked, she saw the boy fall down and the mother straining him and beating at him. |
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His eyes seemed to unfocus for a moment, then he blinked and looked up at them. |
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He blinked, and I placed his hands on the small of my back again, dropping the square of linen unheedingly. |
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She blinked at me and yawned in a very unhuman way that bared her sharp teeth. |
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I unlatched the gate and edged past Heike, who blinked and snorted irritably. |
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We walked around for a little while, staring at booths and small, temporary shops selling pieces of jewelry and lights that blinked. |
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Jackson blinked, then snitched Sam's glasses, folding them and setting them on the nightstand behind him. |
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I blinked, scratching at the chain of my necklace resting against my collarbone. |
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After a few minutes, the door swung open, and Neko blinked up at me. |
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He blinked and then refocused, convinced he was seeing things. |
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With that Nat suddenly produced from inside his jacket a little downy bird, who blinked and ruffled his feathers, looking very plump and sleepy and scared. |
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It blinked in binary and semaphore, and clattered in Morse code. |
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Emerging from my semi-conscious state, I blinked away the stubborn black spots in front of my eyes, and was immediately tackled by a sobbing blonde thing. |
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At first, I was blinded by dazzling white and blinked, looking away. |
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She blinked and searched her memory, wondering how she'd gotten there. |
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Damien blinked, falling back into his chair so hard he nearly tipped over. |
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She squinted, blinked sporadically, and tilted her head, as if straining to wrestle answers from her brain. |
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He blinked once when she asked if he was in pain, twice when she asked if he knew who shot him. |
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Nobody at MTV blinked an eye when they saw a child dressed as Ku Klux Klan member, jumping up to grab a fetus hanging from a tree. |
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The soldier blinked repeatedly and then raised his horn to his lips. |
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He blinked, rubbing sleep from his eyes as he looked at each of us. |
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The plane came to a jerky stop and the fasten seatbelt sign blinked off. |
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He blinked as pain wracked his body and paralyzed him momentarily. |
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She looked like she wanted to cry but she blinked the tears back. |
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The next house had a collection of pickaninny dolls on shelves running the length of the living room, and a plump orange cat that blinked and mewed inquisitively as he passed. |
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I blinked, completely blind-sided by his words, and completely speechless. |
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Her gray eyes filled with tears, but she blinked them back resolutely. |
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The seat belt sign blinked off meaning it was safe to un-buckle the belts. |
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I blinked to muzzy awareness, licked dry lips and tried to rub bleary eyes, only to be brought up short by the restraints and a lance of pain through my wounds. |
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He blinked a bit, obviously startled, then he recovered himself. |
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Neither mother nor child even blinked at the scene they created. |
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Ren blinked owlishly into the dark at the sound of his name. |
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He blinked for a moment, genuine surprise registering on his face. |
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He took a deep breath and blinked at what was registering in his mind. |
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I blinked, feeling hot tears prickling the corners of my eyes. |
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It was too early to kill him, so I blinked rather blearily instead, groping around blindly for my glasses, and noticed two pairs of feet standing nearby. |
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A lone red light blinked out in the distance, probably an oil rig. |
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Cindy blinked at this and nudged her gently in her ribs with her elbow. |
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I blinked a few times, embarrassment rising in my chest again. |
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Just then Jake felt a few drops of rain hit his nose, and blinked. |
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He blinked his ebony black eyes, the irises twinkling with delight. |
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The round man blinked and adjusted his small circular glasses. |
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I blinked at him as another fundamental bit of my worldview eroded away. |
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He blinked and rapidly adjusted the viewer's dials, but what seemed to be a tiny, almost infinitesimal flashing green light on one end of the diamond, did not disappear. |
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He blinked, unable to stop the sudden rush of tears that flooded his eyes. |
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The man blinked, before opening the door wider and ushering me inside. |
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Devan blinked her eyes open, meeting the sight of her screwed bed sheets. |
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She blinked open her bloodshot eyes and didn't really seem to see me. |
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I blinked, unbelieving, at a churning mass of flames fully 2000-ft across. |
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A soft, distant foom. The lights blinked, then faded. Foom-foom-foom! Explosions, one after another, rocked the tunnel. |
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I took hold of her bridle and hugged her furry head, wiping tears on my arm while Loney blinked and nickered. |
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Ryan blinked and looked at the squidling. It flew up using its tentacles and drifted down onto Ryan's snout. It waved around a tentacle and formed a bubble that drifted away. |
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Sharjah Cardiologist Dr Kaushik Narang blinked exasperatedly as he pulled out a fax from the machine at his clinic in Sharjah's Buheirah Corniche area. |
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I blinked again and screwed up my eyes to look across the chuckies. |
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Flash bulbs popped, television lights glared and Ferguson, in shirt sleeves, having abandoned his jacket on a sultry Spanish night, blinked disorientedly amid the bedlam. |
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Des Capper blinked, as if he has been hit with a dictionary. But he was unputdownable, at the same time giving the impression that he was registering all the snubs. |
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