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More "Spangle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her in his arms, and the spangle-crowned gipsy head fell heavily on his shoulder. She stretched up both arms towards the stars, and the moonlight glinted ...
— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck
... demerit, of praise and blame, and more especially (but this will shock Mr. Wells) of salvation and damnation—and nothing can be easier than to pay to the works of the Veiled Being the meed of an illimitable wonder. When we think of the roaring vortices of flame that spangle the heavens night by night, at distances that beggar conception: when we think of our tiny earth, wrapped in its little film of atmosphere, spinning safely for ages untold amid all these appalling immensities: and when we think, ...
— God and Mr. Wells - A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' • William Archer
... love To show their wondering babes, the gentle Seven. Along the desert space mine eyes in vain Seek the resplendent cressets which the Twins Uplifted in their ever-youthful hands. The streaming tresses of the Egyptian Queen Spangle the heavens no more. The Virgin trails No more her glittering garments through the blue. Gone! all are gone! and the forsaken Night, With all her winds, in all her dreary wastes, Sighs that they shine upon her face ...
— Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant - Household Edition • William Cullen Bryant
... after the spangle in the dust. "Divil a bit will Regan care whether he be godspeeded or not," he says, so boldly that ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... this lovely morning, becoming golden with new yellow foliage. But as this is our last year in the blessed old abbey, you must see it in perfection. The lawn beneath the trees is already a rich emerald, and large gold stars begin to spangle it. You shall see my little darling running over the green grass, with a continued song of exultation. She thinks this is the first Paradise, and that her father is the primal Adam, and that she possesses the earth, now that ...
— Memories of Hawthorne • Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
... which the starlings and the nutmegs brought with them from hotter lands. The swamp pheasants are whooping and gurgling, and that semi-migratory fellow, the spangled drongo—a flattering name, for he jangles but does not spangle—sits on the slim branch of the Moreton Bay ash which held last year's nest and chatters discordances in the very ears of his responsive mate. They will start building a loose nest on the brittlest branch forthwith, and while the lady sits ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield
... sunny moon, All light, they look upon us. But thou seemst Like an ethereal night, where long white clouds Streak the deep purple, and unnumber'd stars Spangle the wonderful mysterious vault With things that look as if they would be suns— So beautiful, unnumber'd and endearing; Not dazzling, and yet drawing us to them, They fill my eyes with tears, and ...
— Byron • John Nichol
... explain it to my friends! Think you've got me left, do yu'? Just because yu' ride through this country on a rail, do yu' claim yu' can find your way around? I could take yu' out ten yards in the brush and lose yu' in ten seconds, you spangle-roofed hobo! Leave ME behind? you recent blanket-mortgage yearlin'! You plush-lined, nickel-plated, whistlin' wash room, d' yu' figure I can't go east just as soon as west? Or I'll stay right here if it ...
— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister
... beauty of this lower world, next to God and his wonders, are the men that spangle ...
— The Riches of Bunyan • Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin
... make the most of small compensations, such as watching "the show" at Mrs. Murrett's, and talking over the Lady Ulricas and other footlight figures. And at any moment, of course, a turn of the kaleidoscope might suddenly toss a bright spangle into the ...
— The Reef • Edith Wharton
... spangle it with clover, And the dandelions bright; You shall pick them in your aprons, Yellow, red, ...
— Cousin Hatty's Hymns and Twilight Stories • Wm. Crosby And H.P. Nichols
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