blinking

The latter was blinking in the bright light of the corridor, and peering at us and at the smouldering fire.

The man stood blinking at us with the dazed look of one who comes from the dark into the light.

She appeared to be dazzled by the sudden blaze of light, and after dropping a curtsey, she stood blinking at us with her bleared eyes and fumbling in her pocket with nervous, shaky fingers.

Blinking embers, tell me true