smouldering vs twinkling

smouldering

adj
  • Burning slowly, producing smoke but no flame. 

noun
  • The act by which something smoulders; residual heat. 

twinkling

adj
  • Sparkling intermittently. 

noun
  • A very short period, notionally the time it takes to blink the eyes. 

  • A shining with fast intermittent light. 

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