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- noun Plural form of
sparkling .
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Examples
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It's not just reds, but whites and sparklings as well.
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These sparklings seemed to need it, almost as payment for their assistance, just as the land glimpses needed a riddle.
GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL GREGORY SPENCER 2007
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+ Some of these urns were thought to have been silvered over, from sparklings in several pots, with small tinsel parcels; uncertain whether from the earth, or the first mixture in them.
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It appears, however, that of all flame that of spirit of wine is the softest, unless perhaps ignis fatuus be softer, and the flames or sparklings arising from the sweat of animals.
The New Organon 2005
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The rays gushing into it seemed to be filling it; it was alive with sparklings, scintillations, glimmerings.
The Moon Pool 2004
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The shining threads grew thicker, pulsed, were spangled with tiny vivid sparklings.
The Metal Monster 2004
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Robed in her silken amber swathings, red-copper hair streaming, woven with elfin sparklings, she was racing toward the City like some lovely witch, riding upon the back of a steed of huge cubes.
The Metal Monster 2004
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The far radiance became brighter; it gathered itself at the end of the dreadful lane; it was shot with sparklings and with pulsings of polychromatic light.
The Moon Pool 2004
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He allowed the light of the candle to play upon the jewels of the sheath, but the flashings and sparklings had no charm for his eye; they were only just so many pangs to his heart.
Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955
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The careless brilliancies of conversation, which the one threw loose about the club-rooms of the Court End, are collected by the other and reset by this dexterous jeweller, for the sparklings and ornaments of his stock in trade with posterity.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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