Meaning of sparkful | Babel Free

Definitions

Lively, vivacious; smart.

uncommon

Examples

“Hitherto will our sparkefull Youth laugh⟳ at their great grandfathers English, who had more care to do well, than to speake minion-like, and left more glory to vs by their exploiting of great actes, than we shall do by our sonnetting.”

“It described the first ceiling I mentioned as “Apollo drawn by four sparkful steeds in a shining cart, the egregious Domenichino’s work⟳.””

“[…] he is quite well drawn, and of a piece with more than one sparkful young ‘hero’ of Shakespeare’s invention—with Bassanio, for instance, or the earlier Romeo.”

“Rachel was vivacious and sparkful. As her type⟳ is wont to do, she married a painfully jealous man, one Lewis Robards.”

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