Careful Words

twinkling (n.)

twinkling (adj.)

There's but the twinkling of a star

Between a man of peace and war.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 957.

In the twinkling of an eye.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.

  In the twinkling of an eye.

New Testament: 1 Corinthians xv. 52.