sparkless

Focus on simple moments in sparkless or ambiguous scenes, and see what happens when you add a fistful of spicy tension.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Lessons from Lord of the Rings, Part 3 2006

I was often to find this gender gap, between electrifying Czech women and sparkless Czech men.

Once upon a life: Toby Litt 2010

An older woman is in a dead relationship, but decides it's too late to move on, so when she meets a younger woman just starting a sparkless marriage, she tries to convince her to end it now.

Escapes Sage 2009

An older woman is in a dead relationship, but decides it's too late to move on, so when she meets a younger woman just starting a sparkless marriage, she tries to convince her to end it now.

Archive 2009-06-01 Sage 2009

The premise of this book is like that: if we had the ability to tinker with past events--removing war, famine, social-ills--would the human race become a smoother, yet sparkless version of itself?

Reading Rainbow, Eternity, and Benjamin Button 2009

I shuddered at the prospect of a grate full of sparkless cinders.

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

We have our heroes and heroines who never allowed that the reverses of the day should turn their fighting spirit into sparkless ashes loaded into an unlamented urn.

Address at the ceremony to hand over the Garden of Remembrance Freedom Park 2004

She looked away, toward the fire that had burned down to sparkless ashes.

the deer leap Grimes, Martha 1985

The embers had died down entirely, and the mass of ashes and debris was sparkless and cold.

Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent Allen Chapman

Such a form of twin conductor trolley will permit the collection of a heavy current through the twin contact of the pantagraph with the two trolley wires, and should assure a sparkless collection of the current at any speed.

Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails Victor [pseud.] Appleton