asparkle

English

Alternative forms

• a-sparkle

Etymology

From a- +‎ sparkle.

Adjective

asparkle (not comparable)

1. Sparkling.
   • 1909, Ralph Henry Barbour, The Lilac Girl, Fairfield, IA: 1st World Library, 2004, Chapter 10, p. 86,^[1]

     And when the sun shone against the walls of her palace it was filled with a lovely lavender light, and when the moon shone it was all asparkle with silver.

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎^[2], London: Jonathan Cape, page 2:

     […] the body of each high seat was a single jewel of monstrous size: the left-hand seat a black opal, asparkle with steel-blue fire, the next a fire-opal, as it were a burning coal, the third seat an alexandrite, purple like wine by night but deep sea-green by day.

   • 1995, Philip Pullman, “Northern Lights”, in The Golden Compass‎^[3], London: Scholastic, published 1998, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 163:

     Out on the deck, with the breeze blowing and the whole sea a-sparkle with light and movement, she felt little sickness at all;

   • 2004, Philip Roth, chapter 5, in The Plot Against America‎^[4], London: Jonathan Cape, page 201:

     […] I kept hoping for the film to spin back to the moment where my aunt materialized asparkle with the gems previously the property of the rabbi's late wife.