1974 examples of sparks in sentences

They were few-sparks from my very heartI ought to be able to recollect them.

The air was filled with ash and burning sparks, and twice Kazan drew forth his head to snap at blazing embers that fell upon and seared him like hot irons.

While this was going on, Mr Macmichael, perceiving that the operation ought not to be interrupted any more than a surgical one, stood quite still waiting, and Willie stood alsoabsorbed in staring, and gradually creeping nearer and nearer to the anvil, for there were no sparks flying about to make it dangerous to the eyes, as there would have been if they had been striking the iron itself instead of the punch.

his friends should be careful what sparks they let fall into such inflammable matter.

The patient may or may not have had headache, sparks before his eyes, with confusion of ideas and giddiness, for a day or two before the attack.

Where any other woman would have stung the sore by sending fresh sparks along the wire, you thought only to spare me the pain of seeing you pained.

On the other side of the burned box-cars a long, thin column of sparks rose straight upward.

When it appeared that the one cottage nearest the rain of sparks was sure to go, Kurt thought of the railroad watertank below the station.

Sparks had ceased to fall, and from that source no further danger need be apprehended.

The thing seen without, or the idea felt within, act as the initial sparks, while the adrenals, as the carburetors, permit the freer flow of fuel, sugar, from the liver.

Fixing his gaze upon that hideous form, He seized a stone, and with prodigious force Hurling it, chanced to strike a jutting rock, Whence sparks arose, and presently a fire O'erspread the plain, in which the monster perished.

Not until the shutter slammed, did Heywood shake the burning sparks from his wrist.

They knelt, each holding above his head a lighted bundle of incense-sticks,red sparks that quivered like angry fireflies.

Enlarge your speculations, and take in the rest of your friends, as a spark kindles more sparks.

And ever and anon the flame and smoke would come out in such abundance, with sparks and hideous noises (things that cared not for Christian's sword, as did Apollyon before), that he was forced to put up his sword, and betake himself to another weapon, called All-prayer; so he cried, in my hearing, O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

This is a hard substance, so hard that it is used for striking sparks.

"Come, which shall it be, Croisset?" A cold glitter, like the snap of sparks from striking steels, shot from the Frenchman's eyes.

Now and then, in the intervals of fanning the sparks of war, he takes his readers behind the scenes of European politics, of which he knows about as much, perhaps, as any one.

The eight years' civil war was at last over, and nothing remained for the victors to do but to stamp out the last sparks, and call upon the survivors to pay the forfeit.

Some people think that they will have as many chickens as there are sparks that fly out of the brands of the log when they shake them; and others place the extinct brands under the bed to drive away ver

Then he walks straight to the hearth, takes a shovel and strikes the burning log so that a cloud of sparks flies up the chimney, while he says, "May you have this year so many oxen, so many horses, so many sheep, so many pigs, so many beehives full of honey, so much good luck, prosperity, progress, and happiness!"

May the cattle increase in number like the sparks I have struck!"

Then the newcomer goes up to the hearth, pokes the fire and strikes the burning log with the poker so hard that sparks fly off in all directions.

At each blow he says, "I wish the family as many cows, calves, sucking pigs, goats, and sheep, and as many strokes of good luck, as the sparks that now fly from the log."

The sparks of the linen are immediately caught in tow or oakum and waved about in a circle until they burst into a bright glow, when straw is applied to it, and the flaming straw used to kindle the brushwood which has been stacked in piles in the hollow way.

1974 examples of  sparks  in sentences