But the stars twinkled softly and there was not a cloud in the sky.

The white dunes down the beach gleamed like snow in the moonlight, and the distant lights of the larger hotels twinkled softly and silently beneath the black star-filled sky.

From Hoboken, at the river's edge on a drizzly night this week, Manhattan's skyscrapers twinkled softly around the Empire State Building, its head in the clouds.

They twinkled softly, like stars that had wandered down from the heav- ens and decided to stay for a while.

Stars twinkled softly overhead, and the night was still and at peace.

The third section had on its dull-metal surface lights of blue and yellow; they twinkled softly here and there over the vast area.

As dusk fell, stationmasters lighted blackened kerosene lanterns and left them twinkling softly in the approaching darkness.