1.   I noticed that his hands were trembling slightly, and he seemed to be blinking back tears.

2.   Touching the welt, Howard tried to blink back tears before going inside.

3.   She needed to blink away tears.

4.   She blinked back tears fiercely.

5.   Aelis snatched it back and blew the ashes from it for him, blinking back tears.

6.   Amerine blinked back tears.

7.   Bennett blinked back tears as he pictured Bailey and Bavis on that doomed airplane.

8.   Blinking away tears, she walked over to her aunt and crawled into her lap.

9.   Blinking back tears, he said she gave their children bandages for injuries so minor they were undetectable.