The sunlight was playing in restless sparkles where the wind ruffled the water's surface.

Fiery living sparkles arose from it on all sides, and pitched themselves into the cups of the flowers, where they remained awhile, like rubies set in gold; till inebriated with the odours, they recast themselves into the bosom of the flood; and ever as one returned, another leaped forth.

There seemed something like a distant sparkle in their depths.

It was very odd, Markheim did not appear to be laughing; there was something in his face like an eager sparkle of hope, but nothing of mirth.

Jean admired the translucent liquor dotted with golden sparkles, and Monsieur Tudesco demanded two more.

He doubted if it was altogether exertion that had brought the blood to her skin and given her eyes the keen sparkle.

" "You were quite right, Lord Vernon," said Susie, very quietly, though there was a dangerous sparkle in her eyes.

What potion has sleep like this crystalline air it almost takes one's breath to drink, of such a maddening chastity is its grot-cool sparkle?

A salt-laden breeze from the ocean a few miles away lent a crisp sparkle to the air.

"Come, come, remember faint heartno lowering your crest, more than enough to bring that devilish sparkle in the eyes, and turn of the neck!

I should like to be able to recover the thread of my thoughts in that quiet grassy place, because they ran on with an equable sparkle, quite without cause or reason.

She heard a sparrow pertly cry, She smelt the new-mown hay, She felt the sunshine in the sky, As lightly she went skipping by, A-down the sunny way 'Twas like a holiday, The keen, expectant sparkle in her eye.

Then the expressive, deep black eyes sparkle and the white teeth offer a glittering contrast to her fine black tresses, eyes and eyebrows.

A faint sparkle came into Piers' eyes as he heard it.

But after a few moments, when the first flush and, sparkle of excitement had died out of her cheeks and eyes, he asked eagerly, "What is the matter with you?

Melancholy as she was, however, and devoted to reverie, she could be gay enough upon occasion, and her sprightly poems have a genuine sparkle.

In their young minds, immortal sparkles rise!

Even in the productions of Mr. Moore, the sweetest lyric poet of this or perhaps any age, this national peculiarity is not infrequently perceptible; and we were compelled, in our review of his Lalla Rookh, a subject which justified the introduction of much Eastern splendour and elaboration, to point out the excessive finery, the incessant sparkle and efflorescence by which the attention of the reader was fatigued, and his senses overcome.

In the middle of its ruddy light stood a cross itself, of enormous dimensions, made of light still greater, and exhibiting, first, in the body of it, the Crucified Presence, glittering all over with indescribable flashes like lightning; and secondly, in addition to and across the Presence, innumerable sparkles of the intensest mixture of white and red, darting to and fro through the whole extent of the crucifix.

Sir Beverley's eyes were shining with an icy, intolerable sparkle.

she now and then interrupted him; also the inward, hidden sparkle of her dancing Gallic blood; her low, merry laugh; the roguish mental reservation that lurked behind her graver speeches; the droll bravados she uttered against the powers that be, as with timid fingers he brushed from her shoulder a little remaining dust of the late encounterthese things, we say, we let go,as we let butterflies go rather than pin them to paper.

" A little satiric sparkle leaped to life in Stoddard's eyes.

O dulcet love, that dost shew thee forth in smiles, how ardent was thy manifestation in the lustrous sparkles which arose out of the mere thoughts of those pious hearts!

This one who sent you this letter is a man of color" "Oh!" exclaimed Aurora, with a sudden malicious sparkle.

Very different, this, from the meretricious sparkle of her, "Oh yes, do show me, Mr. Page."