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Letter "W" » wink
«If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.»
Author: Angela Carter
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
Mrs,
Ms.,
Ms,
nudge,
respectably,
unmarried,
wink,
winked,
winking,
winks,
wink at
«Even a one eyed guy will wink at a beautiful woman»
«I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
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Critic,
Editor,
Essayist,
Journalist)
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About:
Marriage
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Keywords:
coal,
fall down,
happily,
hole,
wink,
winked,
winking,
winks,
wink at
«Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.»
«Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.»
«Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? / Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, / That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? / What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? / Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.»
«If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.»
«A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse»
«I have not slept one wink.»
«I dare not fight; but I will wink and hold out mine iron. It is a simple one; but what though?»