He stops abruptly and turns with a twinkle in his eye which seems stolen from an ancient, untapped mine.

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Imagine, said one UK government source with a twinkle in their eye - a once in a decade opportunity to engage in the debate about the future of devolution for Wales and the Labour party decides against saying anything at all.

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He was that odd breed, a reverential rebel, and he was guided by a faith, which he wore lightly and with a twinkle in his eye, in a God who would not play dice by allowing things to happen by chance.

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With a disarming twinkle he adds, "It is hard to know how to safeguard against this!"

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With a slight twinkle in his eye he tells me he believes in the United States of Europe.

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C. decorator Barbara Hawthorn transformed mauve-colored tiles around the indoor pool with glazed drywall stenciled to resemble sandstone and put twinkle lights and fish netting on the ceiling.

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The eighth movement, "The Resurrected and the Song of the Star Aldebaran, " strikes a meditative mood, with strings chanting a gently shifting melody while stars twinkle and birds twitter in the glockenspiel, piccolo and piano.

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The poem, which was discovered by retired manuscript dealer Roy Davids, begins with the lines: "The shadow falls along the shore, the search lights twinkle on the sea, the silence of a mighty fleet, portends the tumult yet to be".

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