1791. J. Learmont, Poems, 37. In vain the starry winkling gleam.
1807. Hogg, Mountain Bard, 63.
| What though she has twa little winkling een? | |
| Theyre better than nane. |
1905. Mabel Barnes-Grundy, Vacill. Hazel, 198. Fixed stars and planetsand they twinkled and winkled, and sparkled and glittered till the heavens seemed fairly alive with their glimmering eyes.