It seems beaten to the finest dust, and is shed off in myriads of minute sparkles that seem to come from the very heart of the trees, as if, like rain falling upon fertile soil, it had been absorbed, to reappear in flowers of light.

Beppo, its brilliant prelude, sparkles like a draught of champagne.

Fire sparkles round him; his stupendous bulk Looks like a mountain.

The dark eyes, full of sparkles and enigmas, turned upon his frosty ones.

He hardly felt her hand on his sleeve; the girl's eyes were full of sparkles.

They reached the end of the long walk, and stood for a moment beneath the eastern turret, watching the sparkles on the brown surface of the river below, and the white mist floating away down the valley.

If I nor lie your pity can provoke, See your own heavens, the heavens begin to smoke! Should once the sparkles catch those bright abodes, Destruction seizes on the heavens and gods; Atlas becomes unequal to his freight, And almost faints beneath the glowing weight.

He loves virtue, not for its obligation but for its grace: he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them.

He seems as one whose footsteps halt, Toiling in immeasurable sand, And o'er a weary sultry land, Far beneath a blazing vault, Sown in a wrinkle of the monstrous hill The city sparkles like a grain of salt.

" "There must be many more fixed stars than planets, then, for almost every star that I can see twinkles and sparkles like a diamond.

What sparkles in thy dark and guileless eye? Life's joyous dawn alone undimmed by care!

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

As before all he glows and sparkles, No fame, no glory but grows dim, Even the name of Faustus darkles!

Fiery sparkles see I gleaming Through the lindens' two-fold night; By the breezes fanned, their beaming Gloweth now with fiercer light!

The sparkles of amusement were still in her eyes when she told her errand.

"THE LITTLE FELLER'S STOCKIN'" O, it's Christmas Eve, and moonlight, and the Christmas air is chill, And the frosty Christmas holly shines and sparkles on the hill, And the Christmas sleigh-bells jingle and the Christmas laughter rings, As the last stray shoppers hurry, takin' home the Christmas things; And up yonder in the attic there's a little trundle bed Where there's Christmas dreams a-dancin' through a sleepy, curly head;

His wife says to him: Here's a goodly jewel.. Did you not win this at Goletta, captain?.. See how it sparkles, like an old lady's eyes..

Afterwards there came the sound of waterfalls and laughing streams and the calling of fairy voices, the tinkle of fairy laughter, and then the sea and shoaling watershoaling waterbreaking in a million sparkles over the rocks of an enchanted strand!

Seeing the album full of drawings and verses which bespoke the circle of elegant and affectionate intercourse they had left, behind, we could not but see that the young wife sometimes must need a sister, the husband a companion, and both must often miss that electricity which sparkles from the chain of congenial minds.

Beautiful water, that will never stay, But runs and laughs and sparkles in the heart, And sends live laughter trickling everywhere, And knows the thousand longings of the Earth!

The immense bowl of the gulf was reflecting their sparkles like thousands of will o' the wisps.

And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!

" So saying, he turned, with a new anxiety upon his countenance, and moved with rapid strides toward the rivulet, that still ran rippling on, though the bright sparkles that lit its surface at noon had vanished.

The last one sparkles and beams as if it had bright eyes.

His eyes were far ahead, where the war-party was beginning to debouch on the white sands along the shorefull three hundred fighting-men, or more, well armed, as the tiny sparkles of sunlight flicking from weapons proved.