The occurrence of a small flash or spark

Usage examples of sparkle.

Danforth and I saw the freshly glistening and reflectively iridescent black slime which clung thickly to those headless bodies and stank obscenely with that new, unknown odor whose cause only a diseased fancy could envisage--clung to those bodies and sparkled less voluminously on a smooth part of the accursedly resculptured wall in a series of grouped dots--we understood the quality of cosmic fear to its uttermost depths.

They crossed a noble old bridge with seven spans, water sparkling and shimmering below, and passed under the archway of the ring wall.

Even toward the end of the night performance, no artiste let himself or herself look anything but sparkling and vivacious to the audience, and none of them bungled a single trick in any act.

Savage in a powder-blue suit with shoulder pads which would not have disgraced an American foot baller She was firmly ensconced in the one easy chair, basking in a pale ray of sunlight which cut across the room and which made her earrings sparkle.

The boy was trembling with excitement, his bright green eyes sparkling as he drank in the splendid vision of the mounted warriors, their gleaming weapons and splendid accouterments, the restless thaptors pawing at the dust, arching their proud necks restlessly, the brilliant bannerol snapping in a brisk breeze.

Walker with everything they had, the barrage of lead making a leg buckle, and then the video lens exploded into sparkling trash.

The sparkles in his black silk shirt caught the light, adding to the glow his blurring wings put out.

The flesh was weary, the spirit faint, and I was getting out of humor with the bustling busy throng through which I had to struggle, when in a fit of desperation I tore my way through the crowd, plunged into a by-lane, and, after passing through several obscure nooks and angles, emerged into a quaint and quiet court with a grassplot in the centre overhung by elms, and kept perpetually fresh and green by a fountain with its sparkling jet of water.

The driver of the horseless carriage lifted wide goggles and removed a full hat covered with veiling to reveal shining, dark hair and a pert nose between sparkling, blue eyes.

Miss Mallow was struck dumb, upon opening it, to see a fine set of matched diamonds sparkling at her.

Another fish jumped and fell back with cascading sparkles that reminded Maria of jewels.

The table had been set with a sparkling white tablecloth and Passover dishes, matzah and bitter herbs and Avruhm read from the Haggadah in Hebrew.

One of them was wearing a diamond chain around her bare midriff, which sparkled in the orange streetlights.

Palaisso Millia Luminnai, and kissed her in the moonlit gardenshe could see that, too, from the sparkle of his epalettos to the coronet of a Princess of Ghillas that bound her hair.

The doctors and nurses on the screen wore spotless white, had coiffed hair, perfect faces, and teeth that radiated a mucoid sparkle as they conversed in slow, low, earnest tones about love, hate, anguish and death.