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Definition of Sparkled
1. sparkle [v] - See also: sparkle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sparkled
Literary usage of Sparkled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... long Still sparkled in the feudal song, 30 And how the Ladye prayed them dear
That all would stay the fight to see, And deign, in love and courtesy, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"Her teeth were of a pearly whiteness, and her large black eyes sparkled with
uncommon fire, tempered with the most attractive sweetness. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"All the tiny diamond window panes sparkled in the pale morning sun, and the ledges
beneath, painfully white, were adorned with flourishing firs and laurels ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"... brightly burnished that the golden tracery and the edgings of rubies and pale
amethysts shone and sparkled in the dusk with a variegated play of light. ..."
5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"It seemed to us as fair a sheet of bright green water as we had ever looked upon,
and it sparkled in the sunlight like a limpid lake. Could it be possible, ..."
6. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"Jewelry sparkled, but cheeks and lips looked cold and wan in this fierce
illumination ; and the eye was wearied, and the brow ached, if the sitting was at ..."
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