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Updated: June 28, 2025
Seeing only the roof of that palace boldly breaking the sky-line, how serene your contemplations! Perhaps a star twinkles over it, and you muse on soft eyes far away; while below at the threshold No, phantoms! we see you not from our attic.
In either of her rôles, as morning or as evening star, Venus has no rival. No fixed star can for an instant bear comparison with her. What she lacks in vivacity of light none of the planets twinkles, as do all of the true stars is more than compensated by the imposing size of her gleaming disk and the striking beauty of her clear lamplike rays.
Peter's wrinkles had now crept up his cheeks and were playing hide and seek with the twinkles in his eyes. "Of course any kind of healthy work such, for instance, as hauling a chain through a swamp, carrying a level, prospecting for oil, or copper, or gold all very respectable occupations for some men are quite impossible in your case.
Granny watched him for a few moments with her eyes full of twinkles, then she told him to run along to the tree. And Dickie thanked Granny and ran as fast as he could to the tree where the three crows were still talking. The first crow cried, "I know where there is a box filled with golden pennies!" "Ah, my brother, where?" asked the second crow.
You however come very little under his control; you enter upon the proud life, in the small boy's department, under the dominion of the English master. He is a different personage from Dr. Bidlow: he is a dapper little man, who twinkles his eye in a peculiar fashion, and who has a way of marching about the schoolroom with his hands crossed behind him, giving a playful flirt to his coat-tails.
Suddenly I perceive one tall naval officer on the pier. "Can you help me, sir?" And I hand him the Commodore's letter. He looks at me and at the letter. His face twinkles with repressed laughter; and I laugh, too, beginning to understand. "Very sorry," says the charming young man, "but I think I can assure you there will be no boat, and it is no use your waiting. Commodore went to sea last night."
It is blue and purple and green and yellow, and it's as big as most stars put together. It twinkles yes, sir, and it swings...." he broke off, laughing at the mystification of the others, and laughed so that he could not go on. "Is it a comet, do you s'pose?" said Simeon. "No," said Abel, "no. It's come to stay. It's our individual private star.
"Why, here's Pierre. Oh, he's come for our bags." To have a servant sent for their light luggage again struck Frances as most charmingly English, and two very happy girls waved farewell to Rose Villa as they turned out of the terrace. In the great hall of the Manor, Constance greeted them, ceremoniously enough, but with mysterious smiles and twinkles.
He told the truth briefly and to the point, not omitting his own wrong doing in every particular, and he swayed that crowd as a great orator might have been proud to sway a congregation. They laughed till they cried and cried till they laughed again at Billy's quaint phrases, and they enjoyed the detour Oh how they enjoyed that detour! Even the Judge had twinkles in his eyes.
Other islands, perhaps high, precipitous, black bluffs, are crowned with a white lighthouse, whence, as evening comes on, twinkles a star across the melancholy deep, seen by vessels coming on the coast, seen from the mainland, seen from island to island.
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