Flash

Usage examples of spark.

The acetylene torch was roaring and sparks were flying from the far side where Gabe and Jim worked.

His horse troops were affrighted and dispersed by balls of fire which flew into their midst, trailing sparks and whistling and banging.

The silkiness of melting chocolate on his tongue reminds him of the music of Angelo Badalamenti, and the music of Badalamenti brings to mind the waxy surface of a scarlet anthurium, and the anthurium sparks an intensely sensual recollection of the cool taste and crispness of cornichons, which for several seconds completely overwhelms the actual taste of the chocolate.

For some little time the whole building was a blinding crimson mass, the towers continued to spout thick columns of rockets aloft, and overhead the sky was radiant with arrowy bolts which clove their way to the zenith, paused, curved gracefully downward, then burst into brilliant fountain-sprays of richly colored sparks.

When Barca tried to reach for it, a bright blue spark jumped from the hilt and stung his fingers, making him cry out and jump back.

So from the moment of battening down, the gas which oozed from the coal mixed with the air till the whole ship became one huge explosive bomb, which the merest spark would touch off.

Before Captain Bloomer received the letter, the last spark of anger in his breast had given place to paternal anxiety.

For some minutes the contest continued, Blotto alternately sparking and stopping like a willing but broken-down motor.

Daffy and Cyril Sparks, with Blotto dangling his tongue between them and trying to give the impression that he had arranged everything, were seated on the kitchen table.

Many of the individual motes themselves detonated in a clustering hyperspherical storm of lethal sparks, followed sequentially by another and another echelon of explosions erupting amongst the wave of ships in a layered hierarchy of destruction.

Roger carried the magneto over to the bench, and went back to the engine to unscrew the spark plug.

While Bill obeyed, Roger wrapped several turns of wire around the spark plug, and then he put it, together with the magneto, between the open jaws of the vise.

Now we have the outside shell of the spark plug, the case of the magneto and a wire lead all connected together.

Not to go nowhere: just to keep the spark plugs and magneto from rusting and costing you twenty, twenty-five dollars for a new one all the way from Memphis or somewhere, maybe all the way back to the factory.

Then Malar shielded his eyes as a small spark was struck, blindingly bright after the long time spent in the dark.