Meanings
- not comparableWithout winking; with one's full attention.
But Miss Marley had dispensed with the inspirations of reverie, and now composed herself for some rational conversation with Jasper, who sat very erect, with his black beads of eyes fixed unwinkingly on Miss Marley.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 1282 more examples
Certainly Miss Mann had a formidable eye for one of the softer sex: it was prominent, and showed a great deal of the white, and looked as steadily, as unwinkingly, at you as if it were a steel ball soldered in her head; […]
1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 261As we sped effortlessly along at a steady 75-80 m.p.h., with the three vertical lights of a clear aspect shining unwinkingly on the ground glass of the cab signal, our engineer lolled back in his chair and leisurely lit a huge cigar; [...].
1961 June, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States”, in Trains Illustrated, page 357
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