Jake arrived without a moment to spare, whisking me out of the driveway with a wink for Mason. |
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Fellow members nod and wink to one another in recognition and in tacit acknowledgement of shared belonging. |
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Every now and then the tea light at our table would wink out from a draft and we'd have to relight it. |
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The only way I can wink properly is if I pry one eye open and prop it up with one finger. |
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He took the trouble to wink and then closed his eyes, instantly falling asleep. |
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He saw the status lights wink on letting him know that his people understood the orders. |
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The windows around wink and flash in cryptograms, a galactic console of messages coded in light, in diamonds and topazes and amber. |
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Later that evening, as the sun sets and lights wink on in the surrounding hills, I set out to visit the city's most popular bar. |
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They had fought at times to a standstill, but always came out of it with some mutual respect, a handshake, a smile and a wink. |
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He only wondered if the wink meant more than a friendly gesture amongst winning blackjack players. |
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Dan gave her a salute and a wink, and they all turned their attention back to the two left in the ring. |
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Pretty rude, I think, so to clarify my intent I give a cheeky wink and nodding-back-a-pint gesture. |
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In theory, they spread an infinite distance, and can manifest clear across the universe in the wink of an eye. |
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She's a master of surprise, able in the wink of an eye to transport the reader from tranquil normality to stark terror. |
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So restless that she could not sleep a wink and therefore had left her cozy bedroom. |
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Then, any time the person looks at you after that, smile knowingly or wink at them. |
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This was still money, and no harm could come to her after the lascivious squeeze and wink. |
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He answered with a lascivious wink when reporters asked him what he was giving his wife for her birthday. |
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He was gone with a wink before Allison could open her mouth and answer back. |
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Charity looked at her in genuine alarm and was rewarded with a wink that made her revise her opinion of her cousin slightly upwards. |
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As usual, this big shot walked away with a slick profit and a wink, while small investors and company employees took a bath. |
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Xander gave me a wink before taking one hand and scratching off an imaginary tally mark in the air. |
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He doesn't nudge and wink his way through, tee-heeing at the conventions of the genre. |
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Maidenly honour is tricked into a fatal moment of weakness which the ballad-monger, as though with a sly wink, seems actually to condone. |
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Douglas Wootton dramatises this bawdily rollicking ditty to perfection, down to the last nudge and wink. |
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Later my new friend came into bat and I had been tipped the wink that his sister plays for the England women's team. |
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Who can stare the dragon of human despair in the face, which is so miasmically present in the subconscious of mankind, and wink at it? |
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She can write an incredibly personal torch song ballad, but at the same time, with a little wink in it. |
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But his quick wink, the twist on his lips, the merriment of success as a glint in his eyes, told her specifically who. |
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Either way, it is clear he was a writer who preferred hint and understatement, a wink instead of a nudge. |
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Roxie's character had been cleaned up, but it was all done with a knowing wink that enabled audiences to relish the film's diverting sleaziness. |
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He also tips a wink to counterparts in the brewing trade from centuries ago. |
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Never mind me, I don't suppose the kids in the next field, nay the next village, got a wink of sleep all weekend. |
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With a wink at Joe, he flicked the reins urging the team of horses forward. |
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So, if a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse, I think I can almost safely assume we are good enough for this particular rental agency. |
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She punctuated the point by kissing him on the cheek and giving him a slow wink. |
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Matt cranked his stereo so I wouldn't be able to sleep a wink and it worked. |
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All this is done with a wink and a smile, lots of witty one-liners and a backdrop of upbeat music. |
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Edwards has also refused to wink in regard to the hot button issue of affirmative action. |
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She looked at the gently flowing stream at her feet, watching the dappled sunlight wink upon the water. |
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Rather than smile and wink flirtatiously, they instead stare at each other curiously, like two predators circling each other in the wild. |
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He took that opportunity to give Daphne a little wink to let her know that he would play along with whatever she decided to do. |
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He's wiry, he wears a goatee and a flattop, he's got a ready smile and a quick wink and, yeah, I suppose he has opinions. |
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The Italian court won't grant a divorce, but a crime passionnel warrants a judicial wink and a nod. |
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I didn't sleep a wink last night for thinking about everything, hence the unearthly earliness of these posts. |
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A glimmer of light flickered in front of him like a faint dying star, but this star didn't wink out of existence. |
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Benz is easy and confident on stage, an actor who knows how to tell a story and make it roll with a wink and a punchline at just the right spot. |
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When she noticed me, she gave me a discreet wink and continued with her speech. |
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He walked over to help, and the enquiring look she gave him got answered with a wink. |
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I put in a few extra goodies on the house, said Kelly with a wink as she handed them their doggie bags. |
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He politely excuses himself, explaining that he hasn't slept a wink in the past two days. |
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Neither in wink of an eye can Cicaragua distribute on a great scale the products of culture, nor the means of production of culture. |
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To add insult to injury, Ronaldo seemed to wink at his bench after Rooney was sent off. |
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The emoticon is a weak substitute for a coy gesture or a lusty wink. |
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He told her with a wink as he gestured for her to come inside. |
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It was another of the nudge, nudge, wink, wink jokes that summed up the entire enterprise. |
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Oh for crying out loud, it's just gone 4am and I haven't slept a wink. |
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Being a Newcastle fan I know first hand Kieron's strengths and weaknesses, I know that he has bags of pace, can skin players in the wink of an eye, can create and score goals. |
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The listing was withdrawn but I would have purchased it in a wink. |
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Peter's wink sent Jes right back into convulsions and minor hysterics. |
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The old man's overcoat stirs in the dark, as though about to cup a hand once more to an unhearing ear, to wink an amiable eye and disappear serenely. |
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As colleagues walk by, they wolf whistle or wink conspiratorially at him. |
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She didn't go into higher education, leaving school at 16, but says, with a wink that acknowledges she recognises the cliche, that she attended the university of life. |
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And we also have to be careful to not do it in a way that feels cheap or just a wink. |
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The picaresque escapades and legendary extravagances of the brothers are indulged with a collective wink. |
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But I can remember the days when a smile, a wink of the eye or an arch of the eyebrow set off the whole shooting match and a light fire would run beneath my skin. |
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With a quick wink and a leap, he flew over the river to my side. |
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I gave the people who were listening and watching a roughish wink. |
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Cultural conservatives will put up with a certain amount of pandering to more modern mores with a nudge and a wink. |
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This inverted morality creates maniacs whose antics are referenced with a smile and a wink, not a harrumph. |
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He sneered and shared a conspiratorial wink with someone over my shoulder. |
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In the old days the uncertainty provided a lucrative source of supplemental income for town-hall bureaucrats who would tip you the wink for a little discreet baksheesh. |
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Harlow is deliciously naughty and amoral as the unapologetic homewrecker, digging into her character's sexual voraciousness with a wink and a shrug and abundant good humor. |
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Even more likely, it could be deliberate misdirection, a Nabokovian wink the author shares with the reader perspicacious enough to call his bluff. |
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Indeed, he seemed to have a special partiality for Clara, slipping her a sweet when the grown-ups weren't looking with a mysterious wink out of his lone eye. |
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Before he left, he gave me a quick wink, his eyelid barely flickering. |
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At the age of 9, Daniel Radcliffe was catapulted towards Harry Potter and Hollywood immortality by a single, instinctive wink. |
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The last one is a wink from Doyle acknowledging his own impact on the culture of the Celtic Tiger. |
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Having witnessed her improbable display, nobody in Chattanooga cared a wink about the final result. |
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Yes, God forbid that she should lose a wink of beauty sleep. |
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But because we have assisted trusts at other clubs in similar situations then we should be able to tip them the wink as to who they should speak to. |
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Maybe you suffer from insomnia and barely sleep a wink every night. |
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We wink at all this, and yet like to pretend that we are respectable. |
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The O contained a whimsical smiley face, a wry, self-deprecating wink at the pretensions of power. |
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But there is always the nudge nudge wink wink reassurance that when the chips were down these guys simply did not have the necessary backbone to realise their potential. |
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I laced my arm around Keith's waist and gave a little shimmy and a wink. |
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If any of you are particularly astute, you may notice that the end of this chapter was not originally the end, nudge nudge, wink wink. But I have to keep this family friendly. |
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It may sound like one of those late night SBS Swedish movies, nudge nudge wink wink, but alas, of all the films bearing this name, this is the bottom of the barrel. |
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Normally these deals are signed with a handshake and a wink. |
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His cheeky wink, seafaring accent and white beard are as famous as the frozen fish fingers he gave his name to. |
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She was a great cook and avid baker of goodies, especially her chocolate chiffon cake, lemon meringue pie, cherry wink cookies and cream puffs. |
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The young women in the bar turned their heads in disgust when that dirty old man began to wink and smile at them. |
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I am tired of these duck-footed Leydeners, who daren't wink at a donkey lest he should bray. |
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Belinda panicked for a second and then caught Neill just shake his head everso slightly and wink. |
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Seen a purty girl down the road. Give her a big wink, too. Purty as hell, too. |
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I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him. |
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She sized me up, then patted my hand and gave me a big wink. |
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They wink at Fitzgerald worshipers primed to hate any textual liberties. |
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And history itself offers both a lesson and a wink and a nod to the idea. |
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I didn't get a wink of sleep. I was tossing and turning all night long. |
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With a wink and a nod from these liberal Washington do-gooders, the United Farm Workers convinced 50 percent of the strawberry pickers to sign union election cards. |
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As the end credits approach, the film clumsily attempts a self-referential wink by inviting the characters to contemplate a TV show about their bromantic escapades. |
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Senders can compose a greeting for a girlfriend for him to read with a wink and sexy smile, serving them compliments, not come-ons for the holidays. |
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Without a wink of sleep, she was on a private jet, flying off to the party was still winding having drunk the equivalent shots of vodka and champers. |
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Sauzee, who also works as an observer for the French League, revealed he will be more than happy to tip the wink to Paatelainen for potential targets in a French market. |
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The sign-up form only explained that Wink was a free service that needed a credit card number for future purchases. |
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I think Wink is a very cool place and our technology is really neat. |
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The Link bulb is designed to communicate with smartphones and tablets using a mobile app called Wink. |
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When we carry ourselves as far as we can and feel we can go no further, that's when we should be on the lookout for a God Wink. It's coming. |
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