For, these were none of the Sparks to whom Philadelphia was design’d to be Sacrific’d.
Anusia, instead of making answer or contradiction, seized Pan Andrei's hand and pressed it to her pale lips; and sparks went from his feet to his head.
Sparks came from Kmita's eyes while he was speaking, and such great ardor seized him that he knelt in the middle of the hall.
At that moment the sulphur-string caught, and delicate little sparks began to run upward along its dry exterior.
Then a breeze began from the summits, and bearing on its wings sparks of snow, flew to the valley.
It seemed to him that wings were growing from his shoulders; joy embraced him like a whirlwind, and he flew in front of his Tartars, so that sparks were scattered from under the hoofs of his steed.
At night those clouds became red, and bundles of sparks burst forth from them toward the sky.
Above the conflagration pillars of fiery sparks were flying toward the ruddy sky.
Under the general's able management the few sparks which did threaten were quickly extinguished and save for a slight scorching here and there the house was safe.
When that was done there was nothing more that could be done but to watch the walls crumble and the roof fall in a shower of sparks and a roar of flames, leaping and dancing in a mad riot of destruction.
Fireworks soared up from the hill-top beyond, fireflies lent their dancing sparks to illuminate the meadows, and the three bridges were laden with the crowds, who greeted each new surprise with cries of admiration.
He remembered stumbling, when he was a boy, into a nest of yellow-jackets, that swarmed up around him and pierced him like sparks of fire at every uncovered point.
Then one day this great mass of frost, on which fresh sparks of fire still fell, was suddenly warmed into life, and out of ice and snow and fire and heat the great giant Ymir was made.
The never changing twilight which brooded over the gulf was sometimes illuminated by sparks that were blown over from the Land of Fire that lay just beyond.
His blood supplied the boundless ocean, and his skull formed the arching sky in which the gods placed some of the sparks that floated out of Muspelheim.
Some of the burning sparks floated northward toward the land of snows, and as they fell into the ice-filled gulf, they changed to clouds of steam which were soon congealed into hoar-frost.
Sparks of fire flew up in great numbers into the clouds, and these, glowing like balls of fire, were thrown far and wide on the land.
When a steam thrashing-machine is to be used, place it on the lee side of the stack or barn, so that the wind may blow the sparks away from the stacks.
When machine electricity was employed, an electrometer placed on any point of the circuit diverged, and, wherever the continuity of the circuit was broken, bright sparks were visible.
Then the little crests of foam on the waves seemed on fire, and my arms struck sparks, as it were from the water, as the sparks fly from the anvil.
Out of that smother came running the men who had left the ships just now, stooping and hiding their blackened faces from the sparks with their shields, and they too found their posts at once.
But a little before sunrise the last shot was fired, at about the time when most of the castle walls fell in and a huge shower of golden sparks shot upward to the paling sky.
Here are the firmest Whigs, surviving, like sparks in the ocean, unquenched and uncooled in the midst of discouragement and disaffection.
There, at this hour, the fireflies are coming out of their fragile dwellings and clinging like diamond sparks to the leaves of the iris.
Smoke and sparks flew upwards from the Friedrich III.
The great dressmaker may be born anywhere, but even a sartorial genius, born to dressmaking as thesparks fly upward, will not come into his artistic heritage outside of Paris.
Sore they were enraged, / as ye soon were ware, For from their swinging broadswords / whirred the ruddy sparks in air.
Though with fierce onslaught Hagen / upon Gelfrat sprung, On his shield the noble margrave / a sword so deftly swung That a piece from off the border / 'mid flying sparks it clave.
The sparks as if in stormwind / from mail-rings flew around.
Soon the might of Iring / must 'neath his furious onset tire, 2062 Their shields they smote asunder / that the sparks began To fly in ruddy showers.
With mighty stroke repaid him / the valiant minstrel too, And so belabored Wolfhart / that thick the sparks around him flew.
Sir Irnfried then in answer / the valiant minstrel smote, That must fly asunder / the rings of his mailed coat Which showered o'er his cuirass / likesparks of fire red.
How plenteously the ruddy / sparks above his helm arose!
Many a guilty conscience has the Bardd Cwsg aroused with its dreadful sights, its strong sighs, its puffs of smoke from the pit, and its showers of sparks from the mouth of the yet lower gulf of [the deep] Unknown.
As deep night came on I made my bed on the roof again and went to sleep with the flying sparks lining the sky overhead.
I thought of the sparksflying from the engine, and how easy it would be for a single cinder to fall in the door and set all that dry straw ablaze.
Indeed these sparks and glints of passion, just because they come and vary so quickly, offer admirable illustrations of it, in which it may be viewed, so to speak, under the microscope and in its formative stage.
But a rocket that bursts into sparks of a dozen colours, even if expected, is expected with anxiety and observed with surprise; it assaults the senses at an incalculable moment with a sensation individual and new.
In this sense the religion of humanity is the only religion, all others being sparks and abstracts of the same.
They may arise however, from a fullness of blood in the head, in which case they are accompanied by a flushed face and drowsiness, and are preceded by bright sparks flashing before the eyes, or by ringing in the ears.
Gervaise, with her heart in her throat, wondered if Virginie had really forgiven her as completely as she said, for she seemed to observe sparks in her dark eyes.
When the sparks made her soft hands smart, she did not withdraw them; on the contrary, she enjoyed the rain of fire which stung her skin.
Their tall shadows danced about in the light, the red flashes of the iron that the fire traversed, the gloomy recesses, clouds of sparks darted out from beneath the hammers and shone like suns on a level with the anvils.
A cylindrical block of wood covered with sheepskin, used to clean the interior of a gun after firing, and to extinguish any sparks that may remain behind.
A small machine attached to the old musket for producing sparks of fire.
Formerly the steel covering of the pan from which the flint of the cock struck sparks on to the priming; but now the cock itself, by its hammer action on the cap or other percussion priming, discharges the piece.
Edmund busied himself for some time in compounding some evil-smelling ingredients in a huge mortar, and, as he stirred the pestle round and round, the contents hissed and crackled, and emitted sparks of fire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sparks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
