Lead stirred in silica gave pots a hard, shining glaze; a little lead oxide, added to glass, gave it a crystalline sparkle; white lead, ground with linseed oil, primed painters' canvases and made them spring to life.
Footprints of walkers and their dogs weave across the smoother white ground, along sparkling paths and tracks once followed by quarry workers and miners going to work and wagons taking stone for use on lower land.
One day, he was walking by Lake Michigan, thinking about, in his words, "Buckminster Fuller — life or death," when he found himself suspended several feet above the ground, surrounded by sparkling light.
In the old Chinese quarter they zip and twitter overhead, their swirling shadows dappling the ground like sparkles from a disco ball.
the ground will sparkle where the Gyaradosite is located.
They made it all the way to the receiving line, where they shook hands with the president and first lady before gaily posing for photos with other dignitaries under sparkling lights on the White House grounds.
The material in this set has remarkable consistency: El Banda Gigante was a 20-piece orchestra, and its arrangements were sparkling, with creamy saxophone sections grounded by baritone lines, and fierce, punctuating tattoos from the brass; it had much of the harmonic complexity of the best American jazz orchestras at the time.
VERY GOOD ATMOSPHERE -- Winsome French cafe, with Old World charm and sparkle in the tight dining area on ground floor, but undistinguished ambience in the upper dining room.
There were no smiles this time, but the sparkling football he predicted for the young Spaniard lit up the ground.
The snow "shimmers and sparkles" on the trees but lies "hushed and silent" on the frozen ground.
