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Austin had swung through a waltz with Jacinta, though the guitars were still twinging softly when they climbed the ladder to the bridge-deck, where canvas chairs were laid out.

From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold

The girl hurried on, twinging far to the right through the grass.

From The Call of the North by White, Stewart Edward

Maurice, who began to feel a twinging sensation in his stomach, uttered a regretful cry: "If I had known of this I would have bought some bread at Chene."

From The Downfall by Robins, E. P.

She still lives simply, and enjoys good health; but she tells me if she tastes flesh meat, it produces a twinging in the breast.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

He smiled, with a twinging undercurrent of regret that not even in impendent death did he find any stimulus to the heroical.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch