Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Twinkle

Eyes twinkled like diamonds.
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Twinkled like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled.
—Anonymous

Twinkling as the morning’s tremulous gloss of balmy dew.
—Anonymous

Sharp eyes twinkled,
Like a candle-flame where salt is sprinkled.
—Robert Browning

Twinkling like the stars.
—John Bunyan

Twinkled
Like a smooth golden lake breeze-wrinkled.
—Frederick William Faber

Twinkling like fireflies in the emerald grass.
—Fanny Forester

Lamps twinkled like stars along the water’s edge.
—Camille Lemonnier

Twinkle like lanterns in a sepulchre.
—Friedrich von Schiller

Twinkling like a dawn out of a speckled cloud.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Twinkling … like a sullen star
Dimly reflected in a lonely pool.
—William Wordsworth