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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Sparkle
 
  Sparkles like a fresh glass of champagne.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Sparkle like a ruby.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Sparkle like a seething caldron.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Sparkled as a sword-blade in the sunshine.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Sparkled as a bubbling spring.
            —Welsh Ballad		  5
  Sparkling like the dancing of new stars.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  6
  Sparkling like an ocean flower.
            —Horatius Bonar		  7
  Sparkle like brooks in the morning sun.
            —William Cullen Bryant		  8
  Sparkling like snow-wreaths in the early sun.
            —William Cullen Bryant		  9
  Sparkled like a garnet in the light.
            —Fernán Caballero		  10
  Sparkling like a star.
            —Fernán Caballero		  11
  The sea sparkled as if it smiled.
            —Bliss Carman		  12
  Sparkling … like creatures in whose sunny veins
The blood is running bright.
            —Barry Cornwall		  13
  Sparkle … like iron that comes molten from the fire.
            —Dante		  14
  Sparkling all over, like a harlequin.
            —Charles Dickens		  15
  Sparkle like half-seen fairy eyes.
            —S. H. Dickson		  16
  Sparkling as Mercutio.
            —Dr. John Doran		  17
  All sparkling, like a goddess.
            —John Dryden		  18
  Sparkles … like the glimmer of a lance.
            —Francis M. Finch		  19
  Sparkles like a lusty wine new broached.
            —John Ford		  20
  Sparkles like the sea, whose wave at Algiers breaks upon the shore.
            —Ferdinand Freiligrath		  21
Sparkling, as if a Naiad’s silvery feet
In quiet and coy retreat,
Glanced through the star-gleams on calm summer nights.
            —Paul Hamilton Hayne		  22
  Sparkles like Ariadne’s crown.
            —Robert Herrick		  23
  Sparkle like the celestial mountains in the visions of the saints.
            —Robert Hichens		  24
  Sparkling and roseate as the dewy fingers of Aurora.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  25
  Sparkle like fairy boon.
            —Thomas Hood		  26
  Sparkling like diamond rocks in the sun’s rays.
            —Frances Anne Kemble		  27
  Eye sparkled, like the wine-cup’s brim.
            —Letitia Elizabeth Landon		  28
  Sparkling as dewdrops.
            —Charles G. Leland		  29
  Sparkled like white bait in the meshes of a net.
            —Camille Lemonier		  30
  Sparkle like the sea round the boat at night.
            —James Macpherson		  31
  Sparkling like lightning on a dusky sky.
            —Mahabharata		  32
  Sparkling … like a man’s thought transfigured into fire.
            —John Masefield		  33
  Sparkling … like a coquette in a vaudeville.
            —Ouida		  34
  Sparkled like a jewel in the light.
            —Ouida		  35
  Sparkling like a son of morning.
            —Friedrich von Schiller		  36
  Sparkle like the beaten flint.
            —William Shakespeare		  37
  Sparkled like falling tears.
            —Bayard Taylor		  38
  Sparkles like a grain of salt.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  39
  Sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
            —Old Testament		  40
  Sparkling like young wine which has ceased to ferment.
            —Ivan Turgenev		  41
  Sparkling like all the stars of heaven had fallen down.
            —Mark Twain		  42
  Sparkle as a gold mine.
            —Henry Watterson		  43
 
 
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