It would be just about as pertinent to 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.
"Amusement: A Force in Christian Training"
Rev. Marvin R. Vincent.
It is the secret of success, Flopsie-be a sparkler and you've got everything before you."
"Thelma"
Marie Corelli
Willoughby was inexhaustible in the happy similes he poured out to Miss Durham across the lines of Sir Roger de Coverley, and they were not forgotten, they procured him a reputation as a convivial sparkler.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith