But one article in the entire list did I find to be sectional, and that was for a spark arrester.

He scorned academic learning, and protested that true inspiration was rather to be found in "ae spark o' Nature's fire,"or at the nearest tavern: Leese me on drink!

The spirit that sparks fitfully in the artist is a steady flame now.

They stood heavy and threatening, full of an incessant turmoil of flames and seething molten iron, and about the feet of them rattled the rolling-mills, and the steam-hammer beat heavily and splashed the white iron sparks hither and thither.

Again, when we find practically the same strange neglected sparks, not only rumoured of in European popular superstition, but attested in many hundreds of depositions made at first hand by respectable modern witnesses, educated and responsible, we cannot honestly or safely dismiss the coincidence of report as indicating a mere 'survival' of savage superstitious belief, and nothing more.

Muster together on these high-topp'd trees, That not a spark of light thorough their sprays May hinder what I mean to execute.