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"ref": "1574, John Bale, “[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02895.0001.001/1:2?rgn=div1;view=fulltext To the Right Honourable Lorde Thomas Earle of Sussex, […]]”, in John Studley, transl., The Pageant of Popes Contayninge the Lyues of All the Bishops of Rome, from the Beginninge of Them to the Yeare of Grace 1555. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-28",
"text": "And so may we iudge of these wilye winkers in Religion, that either they be blindstockes in deede and lacke the light of that Heauenlye wysedome, which they pretende to haue, or els their wicked wysedome is but a cloake of wickednes […]",
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"ref": "1614, Patrick Forbes, “A Short Discoverie of the Adversarie His Dottage, in His Impertinent and Ridiculously Deceitfull Demaunds”, in A Defence of the Lawful Calling of the Ministers of Reformed Churches, against the Cavillations of Romanists. […], Middelburgh, Zeeland: […] Richard Schilders, […], →OCLC, page 25",
"text": "[O]ftymes, men are, of neceſſitie, forced to ſpeak the more amply even of plaine matters: as offering them not ſo much to the vievv of men vvho ſee, but even, in a ſort, to bee handled by groapers and vvinkers.",
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"ref": "1583, William Fulke, “A Briefe Confutation of Sundry Cavils and Quarels, Uttered by Diuerse Papistes in Their Seuerall Bookes & Pamphlets against the Writings of William Fulke”, in A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holie Scriptures into the English Tong against the Manifolde Cauils, Friuolous Quarels, and Impudent Slaunders of Gregorie Martin, […], London: […] Henrie Bynneman, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-06-24, page 32",
"text": "[T]his Censurer slaundereth manie men, another might say of him, he is the cōmon packhorse of the Papistes, to carrie any fardell of lyes deuised against any Christian man or booke that commeth in his way, and the rather because he weareth a paire of winkers ouer his eyes like a milhorse, being ashamed to shewe either his face or his name.",
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"ref": "1914, James Stephens, chapter I, in The Demi-Gods, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, book I (Patsy Mac Cann), page 4",
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"ref": "1964, Aleksandr Pushkin, translated by Vladimir Nabokov, Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse […], volumes 2 (Commentary on Preliminaries and Chapters One to Five), New York, N.Y.: Bollingen Foundation, →OCLC, page 168",
"text": "The collar of his cambric shirt, English fashion, is highly starched and looks like winkers, its points projecting upward in front with a wide gap between.",
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"A thing which is used to wink with, or which winks.",
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"text": "Where the wind-trunk is short between the reservoir and wind-chests the tone will be steady; but when it is long, and with bends, the elasticity of the air causes an unsteadiness in the tone, which must be obviated by the use of concussion-bellows, sometimes called \"winkers,\" or by an elastic diaphragm.",
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"text": "There is a third inner eyelid, highly developed and of beautiful mechanism: this is the nictitating membrane, or \"winker\" (nictito, I wink), a delicate, elastic, translucent, pearly-white fold of the conjunctiva. While the other lids move vertically and have a horizontal commissure, the winker sweeps horizontally or obliquely across the ball, from the side next the beak to the opposite.",
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"ref": "p. 1821, “an amateur” [pseudonym], chapter XXVII, in Real Life in London; or, The Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His Cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall, through the Metropolis; […], volume I, London: T. Johnson & Co., →OCLC, page 608",
"text": "[H]e has shell'd out the lour for the occasion, and is travelling down to keep a wakeful winker on his retailers, and to take care that however they may chuse to lush away the profit, they shall at least take care of the principal. [Footnote ǁ: “Wakeful winker—A sharp eye.”]\nA plagiarized version of Life in London (1821) by Pierce Egan.",
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"ref": "1947, Wilfrid [Wilson] Gibson, “Section II”, in Coldknuckles, London: Frederick Muller […], →OCLC; republished as Coldknuckles (Faded Page; ebook #20141058), Canada: Distributed Proofreaders Canada, 13 October 2014, part I",
"text": "With keener stare / The man's eyes scanned him, with the flare / Of yellow light full on his face, / As though his memory sought to trace / Something familiar in the lean / Clearcut young features and the clean / Blue winkers: then his own hard eyes / Twinkled, […]",
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"ref": "1931, B. M. Bower [pseudonym; Bertha Muzzy Sinclair], “The Native Son”, in Dark Horse: A Story of the Flying U, New York, N.Y.: Triangle Books, published January 1943, →OCLC, page 217",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/58/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-winker.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-winker.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
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}
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