blinking vs smouldering

blinking

noun

  • The act of something that blinks. 

adj

  • bloody 

  • That blinks. 

smouldering

noun

  • The act by which something smoulders; residual heat. 

adj

  • Burning slowly, producing smoke but no flame. 

How often have the words blinking and smouldering occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )