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Sparkling   /spˈɑrklɪŋ/  /spˈɑrkəlɪŋ/   Listen
Sparkling

adjective
1.
Shining with brilliant points of light like stars.  "Sparkling eyes"
2.
Used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide.  Synonym: effervescent.  "Sparkling water"
noun
1.
A rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash.  Synonyms: scintillation, twinkle.


Sparkle

verb
(past & past part. sparkled; pres. part. sparkling)
1.
Reflect brightly.  Synonyms: coruscate, scintillate.
2.
Be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity.  Synonyms: coruscate, scintillate.  "A scintillating conversation" , "His playing coruscated throughout the concert hall"
3.
Emit or produce sparks.  Synonym: spark.
4.
Become bubbly or frothy or foaming.  Synonyms: effervesce, fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth.  "The river was foaming" , "Sparkling water"



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"Sparkling" Quotes from Famous Books



... broke over her like a wave. She felt like a bit of driftwood, cast up upon a summer shore where flowers and verdure smiled on every side and all was peace; but at the next tide, once more the waters would engulf her and drag her back to the sparkling, restless ocean. She smiled to herself at the foolish simile even as she thought of it. It was absurd to compare the gay life to which she had been accustomed to an engulfing ocean; but never mind, for once she would ...
— East of the Shadows • Mrs. Hubert Barclay
... polemics; but to regard these metrical mechanics as sacred because nobody wishes to touch them, as meritorious because no one can be merry in their company,—to rank them in the same class with those ancient songs of the Church, sweet with the breath of saints, sparkling with the tears of forgiven penitents, and warm with the fervor of martyrs,—nay, to set them up beside such poems as those of Herbert, composed in the upper chambers of the soul that open toward the sun's rising, is to confound ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, April, 1858 • Various
... there at intervals, and which reminded Herodotus of "the islands of the AEgean." The elevations, which are the work of man, are crowned for the most part with the white walls of towns and villages sparkling in the sunlight, and sometimes glassed in the flood beneath them. The palms and sycamores stand up out of the expanse of waters shortened by some five or six feet of their height. Everywhere, when the inundation begins, the inhabitants are seen hurrying their cattle to the shelter provided ...
— Ancient Egypt • George Rawlinson
... words in the last few lines appear in Hesperides; all the rest are new. Other variants are: "The grass of Lemster ore soberly sparkling" for "the finest Lemster ore mildly disparkling"; "girdle" for "ceston"; "The eyes of all doth strait bewitch" for "All with temptation doth bewitch"; "choicely hung" for "neatly hung"; "silver roach" for "silvery fish"; "cave" for "room"; "get reflection" for "make ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick
... Sparkling at once is every eye, "Ship ahoy!" our joyful cry; While answering back the sounds we hear, "Ship ahoy!" what ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al


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