He found that English, as he knew it, was an extraordinarily wooden and cumbersome vehicle in which to convey those lightning flashes and glares and sparkles of thought in which most Latin intelligences communicate with each other.
"Command"
William McFee
The glance through the eye-glass, which sparkles strangely, is often turned upon Landolin, and Landolin is uneasy under it.
"Landolin"
Berthold Auerbach
What sparkles in thy dark and guileless eye?
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond