"Sparkler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... argue that because a sewer in a certain street needed cleansing, and because a proper array of men and buckets and brooms would cleanse it, therefore every man and woman on the streets, grave doctors of divinity, stately Mr. Dombey, Flora McFlimsey and Edmund Sparkler, should each shoulder broomstick or bucket, and plunge pell mell into the reeking filth. This argument proceeds upon the assumption that Christians can purge amusements only by using them in the ...
— Amusement: A Force in Christian Training • Rev. Marvin R. Vincent.
... way, I am informed Shrapnel has a young female relative living with him, said to be a sparkler. I bet you, sir, she is not a Radical. Do you ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... me, and I'm all ready ... with powders, with instruments, with passports ... And then—choo-choo! The machine is off! Tamarochka! My angel! ... My precious, my sparkler! ..." ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin
... perpetually an attractive smile, grins horribly a naked, ghastly skull. The eye that outshone the diamond's brilliancy, and glanced its lovely lightning into the most guarded heart—alas! where is it? Where shall we find the rolling sparkler? How are all its sprightly beams eclipsed!' The tongue, flesh, &c., are dwelt upon ...
— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton
... look for diamonds," called Jack, as he stepped boldly out, followed by Mark. "Let's see who'll find the first sparkler." ...
— Lost on the Moon - or In Quest Of The Field of Diamonds • Roy Rockwood
... him—that's all. See that sparkler on her finger? Wouldn't it give you a jolt that a nice little girl like her would take up with a stiff ...
— Steve Yeager • William MacLeod Raine
... called 'sparkle' in my natur. And 'sparkle' is wot is rekwired in polite literatoor. Look at 'Hedmund' and ''Enery!' Sparkle again,—read their magnificent productions, the World and Truth,—all sparkle, every line! It is the secret of success, Flopsie—be a sparkler and ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli
... for diamonds," called Jack, as he stepped boldly out, followed by Mark. "Let's see who'll find the first sparkler." ...
— Lost on the Moon - or In Quest Of The Field of Diamonds • Roy Rockwood
... Systems is branching out. Wheel as free as a rogue star. But I'll pass along to Promotion your one molecule-three brain cell sparkler. It's a slight exaggeration, but ...
— The Creature from Cleveland Depths • Fritz Reuter Leiber |
