Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Sparkle
Sparkles like a fresh glass of champagne.
—Anonymous
Sparkle like a ruby.
—Anonymous
Sparkle like a seething caldron.
—Anonymous
Sparkled as a sword-blade in the sunshine.
—Anonymous
Sparkled as a bubbling spring.
—Welsh Ballad
Sparkling like the dancing of new stars.
—R. D. Blackmore
Sparkling like an ocean flower.
—Horatius Bonar
Sparkle like brooks in the morning sun.
—William Cullen Bryant
Sparkling like snow-wreaths in the early sun.
—William Cullen Bryant
Sparkled like a garnet in the light.
—Fernán Caballero
Sparkling like a star.
—Fernán Caballero
The sea sparkled as if it smiled.
—Bliss Carman
Sparkling … like creatures in whose sunny veins
The blood is running bright.
—Barry Cornwall
Sparkle … like iron that comes molten from the fire.
—Dante
Sparkling all over, like a harlequin.
—Charles Dickens
Sparkle like half-seen fairy eyes.
—S. H. Dickson
Sparkling as Mercutio.
—Dr. John Doran
All sparkling, like a goddess.
—John Dryden
Sparkles … like the glimmer of a lance.
—Francis M. Finch
Sparkles like a lusty wine new broached.
—John Ford
Sparkles like the sea, whose wave at Algiers breaks upon the shore.
—Ferdinand Freiligrath
Sparkling, as if a Naiad’s silvery feet
In quiet and coy retreat,
Glanced through the star-gleams on calm summer nights.
—Paul Hamilton Hayne
Sparkles like Ariadne’s crown.
—Robert Herrick
Sparkle like the celestial mountains in the visions of the saints.
—Robert Hichens
Sparkling and roseate as the dewy fingers of Aurora.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sparkle like fairy boon.
—Thomas Hood
Sparkling like diamond rocks in the sun’s rays.
—Frances Anne Kemble
Eye sparkled, like the wine-cup’s brim.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Sparkling as dewdrops.
—Charles G. Leland
Sparkled like white bait in the meshes of a net.
—Camille Lemonier
Sparkle like the sea round the boat at night.
—James Macpherson
Sparkling like lightning on a dusky sky.
—Mahabharata
Sparkling … like a man’s thought transfigured into fire.
—John Masefield
Sparkling … like a coquette in a vaudeville.
—Ouida
Sparkled like a jewel in the light.
—Ouida
Sparkling like a son of morning.
—Friedrich von Schiller
Sparkle like the beaten flint.
—William Shakespeare
Sparkled like falling tears.
—Bayard Taylor
Sparkles like a grain of salt.
—Alfred Tennyson
Sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
—Old Testament
Sparkling like young wine which has ceased to ferment.
—Ivan Turgenev
Sparkling like all the stars of heaven had fallen down.
—Mark Twain
Sparkle as a gold mine.
—Henry Watterson