My thoughtless youth was wing'd with vain desires; My manhood long misled by wand'ring fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own.

It was enough to know that he had brought into her existence the sparkle of joy.

Cartwright saw her rings sparkle and the gleam of her regular, white teeth.

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

Suddenly the front lamps of the machine shone down on something in the roadway that sent back a strange sparkle of light.

For a secondonly a secondshe caught a sparkle in his eyes that seemed to her almost like a gleam of mockery.

" He stopped awkwardly, for he noted a sparkle in Grace's eyes and felt that he was badly handicapped.

The result of a perfect fusion of the two other styles, they exhibit a sparkle, a pungency, and lightness of touch, which take the curse from mere gossip, supple the joints of intellectual disquisition, and mark unmistakably the epistolary artist.

She might as well try to explain the sparkle of the sunshine, or the joyousness of the meadowlark's song in the spring, as to try to analyze the luminous wonder that had come into her own heart that day when the purple mist lay on the Tiger Hills, and the snowdrifts were beginning to sink and sag and break into little streams.

She came back late, flushed with her long walk, her face all sparkle and mystery, as he had seen it in the first days of their courtship; and the look somehow revived his irritated sense of having been intentionally left out of the party.

Diana twinkled and dimpled and flung her sparkles round among them, and there was unbounded jollity.

And after long walking and many thoughts, at last he did see the sea, gleaming blue and white sparkles between the golden trees.

" Helen went, and, extending her hands before Mr. Raleigh, played a couple of bars; he continued where she left it, as one might a dream, and, strangely enough, the little, gushing sparkle of joy became a phantom of itself, dissolving away in tears.

Bridewell kept the sparkle of exultation out of his eyes.

might I kiss the mountain rains That sparkle on her cheek.

He knows the sparkle of the true stone, and puts it in high place, wherever he finds it.

His mind was solid, but lacked the sparkle and vivacity of Bart's, and compensatingly was believed to be deep.

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

and most people's lives are too lead-coloured to afford to lose one sparkle on them, even the smallest twinkle of light gathered from a flash of nonsense.

They could only misread the superficial sparkle of her eyes, the gracious movements of her uncovered neck and arms.

He had felt the girl's charm strongly as he stood near her at the stile, and now tried to recapture the scene; the dark alder branches moving overhead, the sparkle of the water, and the light and shadow that touched his companion.

Two or three little ones, gathered close about you, may pay strict attention to a quiet, calm, eventless history; but a circle of twenty or thirty eager, restless little people needs more sparkle and incident.

Tayoga about noon climbed the enclosing ridge to the north, and, when he returned, Willet noticed a sparkle in his eyes.

The subject of each is slight; each stroke of her brush is made once and for all, with a precision and dash that are inspiriting; and you have in each painting the sparkle, the deft lightness of touch, the instantaneous impression of form and coloring that a water-color should have.

Not for your beauty; Though I confess, it blowes the first fire in us, Time as he passes by, puts out that sparkle; Nor for your wealth, although the world kneel to it, And make it all addition to a woman, Fortune that ruines all, makes that his conquest; Be honest, and be vertuous, I'le admire ye, At least be wise, and where ye lay these nets, Strow over 'em a little modesty, 'Twill well become your cause, and catch more Fools.