wink'd

Updated: September 10, 2025

A pause as on that battle-day, 'twixt France and England's might, When huge L'Orient blew up at once, in the hottest of the fight: There was not one, they say, but wink'd, and held his breath the while, Though brave were they that fought that day with Nelson at the Nile.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844