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    1. If a further explanation is still necessary, maybe it’s time to arise from the bed, realizing that Rip Van Winkle hasn’t been around for some time, even if he was fictional


    2. You can only believe those lies if your name is Rip Van Winkle and you just emerged from a sleep of twenty years


    3. Shoop Winkle and it appeared that he had a remarkable sense for finding the


    4. for al things odd that came from Shoop Winkle


    5. “You can’t smoke in here Mr Winkle!” said the cobra woman


    6. she’d had to deal with Shoop Winkle, she had never seen such intensity in his


    7. “Jesus Winkle, don’t tel me that he’s in lots of different pieces


    8. “The point is Winkle that you’re becoming a liability


    9. gathered himself enough to shout after Shoop “One of these days Winkle, I will


    10. their confrontation with Mr Winkle had gone, decided that they needed to get a

    11. said, “You got here sooner than I’d anticipated Mr Winkle


    12. “As I said Mr Winkle, you got here quicker than I’d expected


    13. He considered getting rid of Mr Winkle, but things were


    14. Winkle had been one of his favourite


    15. Some time later the man, Shoop Winkle, was working for Trevor


    16. When Mr Winkle returned, The Boss


    17. done was to give Shoop Winkle a very good head start before anybody could


    18. Winkle threatened them, they had a bit of a group hug and then


    19. Winkle has made off with almost the entire museum that Jeeves had stored down


    20. overdose of that truth serum that Winkle uses

    21. gazes aimed at Ben, she began tel ing him about Mr Winkle, of how he had found


    22. “Wel , it’s this Shoop Winkle character


    23. The hunting of Shoop Winkle


    24. Winkle without knowing it


    25. names struck him as perfect for the hunting of Shoop Winkle and his men


    26. and even he was missing a large part of the puzzle that was Shoop Winkle


    27. The idea of Mr Winkle being forced to spend time there amused Ben’s sense of


    28. running from Shoop Winkle


    29. ‘It was Mr Winkle sir, I remembered while I was throwing up in a service


    30. ‘Damn that Winkle, I’ve asked him a thousand times to clear up after

    31. ‘Mr Winkle did this?’ asked Chunt


    32. Shoop Winkle was sitting on the edge of it while the other Independents stood


    33. The continued absence of Shoop Winkle was grinding The Boss


    34. world stood on a knife-edge because of The Boss and Shoop Winkle and the


    35. over, that Mr Winkle had won


    36. the news that Shoop Winkle and his cronies were on their way, and that Shoop


    37. ‘Yes my love, they’re making their way to the castle now but Mr Winkle


    38. Shoop Winkle had appeared out of nowhere


    39. blur that was Mr Winkle who was stil ripping and tearing at people with a


    40. Winkle, face to face with the Boss, both absolutely static

    41. ‘You’ve always hated the strange Mr Winkle, you just used that memory as


    42. ‘It’s not the Boss Mr Winkle, he’s as much a pawn as you and you can’t


    43. the gun at Mr Winkle


    44. ‘Ben, this is Shoop Winkle


    45. Mr Winkle, this is Ben, the boss’ brother


    46. ‘I’m sorry Mr Winkle but Ben’s time isn’t here yet


    47. ‘DAMN IT WINKLE! THIS IS A STAND OFF


    48. Ryan likes to winkle out info nuggets about my free life as in the movies or


    49. "He's wearing the same clothes, luckily I didn't pull a Rip Van Winkle


    50. Perhaps, he thought, if they could ask the question when her husband was at work, they'd be able to winkle the truth out of her









    1. face turned into tiny winkles, she started to cry


    2. Her feet began to turn back to its original colour and her winkles faded into the wind


    3. on Mr Winkles nerves and vice versa but neither of them would show their distain


    4. what the frequency of the tracking device he’d slipped into Shoop Winkles hat in


    5. limpets and winkles clung to the rock, and a jungle of oarweed


    6. Sometimes I rambled to pine groves, standing like temples, or like fleets at sea, full-rigged, with wavy boughs, and rippling with light, so soft and green and shady that the Druids would have forsaken their oaks to worship in them; or to the cedar wood beyond Flint's Pond, where the trees, covered with hoary blue berries, spiring higher and higher, are fit to stand before Valhalla, and the creeping juniper covers the ground with wreaths full of fruit; or to swamps where the usnea lichen hangs in festoons from the white spruce trees, and toadstools, round tables of the swamp gods, cover the ground, and more beautiful fungi adorn the stumps, like butterflies or shells, vegetable winkles; where the swamp-pink and dogwood grow, the red alderberry glows like eyes of imps, the waxwork grooves and crushes the hardest woods in its folds, and the wild holly berries make the beholder forget his home with their beauty, and he is dazzled and tempted by nameless other wild forbidden fruits, too fair for mortal taste


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    Synonyms for "winkle"

    periwinkle winkle winkle out blink flash twinkle wink scintillate

    "winkle" definitions

    small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked


    edible marine gastropod


    emit or reflect light in a flickering manner


    gleam or glow intermittently


    remove or displace from a position