Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Twinkle
Eyes twinkled like diamonds.
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Twinkled like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled.
—Anonymous
Twinkling as the morning’s tremulous gloss of balmy dew.
—Anonymous
Sharp eyes twinkled,
Like a candle-flame where salt is sprinkled.
—Robert Browning
Twinkling like the stars.
—John Bunyan
Twinkled
Like a smooth golden lake breeze-wrinkled.
—Frederick William Faber
Twinkling like fireflies in the emerald grass.
—Fanny Forester
Lamps twinkled like stars along the water’s edge.
—Camille Lemonnier
Twinkle like lanterns in a sepulchre.
—Friedrich von Schiller
Twinkling like a dawn out of a speckled cloud.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Twinkling … like a sullen star
Dimly reflected in a lonely pool.
—William Wordsworth