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But the France Football-reading midfield twinkler has gone down in our estimation today.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2012

The deal was sealed for posterity by an heroic, dead-eyed fieldsman – and I'd no sooner landed in Guyana than I made a beeline for kindly twinkler Joe Solomon, chairman of the Guyana cricket board.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2010

In these our sight plunges quite beyond any twinkler we have yet visited. 

From Two on a Tower by Hardy, Thomas

This is Spica, the chief twinkler of Virgo, and it is marked on our circular map.

From Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments by Serviss, Garrett Putman

He was become seriously disturbed about the moral condition of the sensational little twinkler.

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn