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2.4.1: The liuely sparkes, that issue from those eyes,
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Quenche these noisome and parchinge flames which haue kindled, and throwen forth their sparkes into your chaste and tender harte.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Beare (where such sparkes flye as the Guise and D'Ambois)
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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Move on ball sparkes Adam Goodes into action FOR Sydney superstar Adam Goodes, it was all about him.
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I didn't find the final scene to be particularly emotional despite all the crying and sparkes and bubbles going around.
Anime Nano! 2010
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[Exeunt.] 1639: How hard it is to hide the sparkes of Nature?
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Britaine: who in these declining times, haue yet in your braue bosomes the sparkes of that sprightly fire, of your couragious Ancestors; and to this houre retaine the seedes of their magnanimitie and Greatnesse, who out of the vertue of your mindes, loue and cherish neglected Poesie, the delight of Blessed soules, and the language of Angels.
The Battaile of Agincourt Michael Drayton 1597
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The sparkes whereof let kindle thine own fyre, and catching hold on thine owne wicked hed consume thee quite, that didst with guile conspire in my sweet peace such breaches to haue bred.
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Surely in former ages (there yet remayning among men some sparkes of sinceritie) in some sort it might be so: but being of that composition they nowe are, I see not how it may be in any sorte.
A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier Robert Garnier 1591
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With that the sparkes appered euen as they had done of yore,
Gammer Gurton's Needle Anonymous 1575
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