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sparkle

The sparkle faded from his eyes, leaving them soft sweet chocolate pools.

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They made an effort at being polite, but the sparkle had left their eyes.

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"Whether Dolokhov comes or not, we must seize it, eh?" said Denisov with a merry sparkle in his eyes.

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Two bowed his head, and the green-eyed man was gone in a sparkle of light.

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He glimpsed the sparkle of a tear in the flash of on-coming headlights.

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In much of his writings, and in his general attitude, there was to most people an undertone of rather nasty suggestion which created prejudice against him, and his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), with all its sparkle and cleverness, impressed them more from this point of view than from its purely literary brilliance.

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The latterfor which the generic term in Japan is mushi or kaichinclude some beautiful species, from the jewel beetle (tama-mushi), the gold beetle (kogane-mushi) and the Chrysochroa fulgidissima, which glow and sparkle with the brilliancy of gold and precious stones, to the jet black Melanauster chinensis, which- seems to have been fashioned out of lacquer spotted with white.

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The writers of the silver age found fault with his prolixity, want of sparkle and epigram, and monotony of his clausulae.4 A certain Largius Licinius gained notoriety by attacking his Latinity in a work styled Ciceromastix.

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But it may safely be said that his tale is best where most unvarnished, and probably no writer of the same rank has owed less to the mere sparkle of highly polished literary style.

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I could not keep pace with all these literary folk as they glanced from subject to subject and entered into deep dispute, or made conversation sparkle with epigrams and happy witticisms.

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To his surprise, she pulled away from him and smiled, a brilliant sight that made her eyes sparkle and face glow.

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Once this ball gets rolling, it will speed up and, because of it, we will all wake up each morning with a little extra spring in our step and sparkle in our eye.

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Mrs. Reynolds smiled at him, her eyes regaining the familiar sparkle.

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The sparkle faded from his eyes, leaving them soft sweet chocolate pools.

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shimmer light effect changes through red to yellow to blue to green to clear sparkle.

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sleight of hand tricks that truly sparkle.

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Well played, well performed - but lacking a little sparkle.

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The Disco range have a different type of glitter which gives a subtle sparkle.

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The sparkle effect is eye-catching and really makes your eyes stand out.

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Mica powder can be added to soap for sparkle.

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