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alternative a-twinkle

1. not comparableTwinkling.

   And he rode with a jewelled twinkle, / His pistol butts a-twinkle, / His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jewelled sky.

   1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza II, page 46

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   Eyes atwinkle at age 71, he boasts skills rare in the Republican Party for waging guerrilla war with help from the news media.

   2008 June 16, John Harwood, “No Ordinary Candidates, No Typical Campaign”, in The New York Times