But beneath the spangle and tinsel, there's steel. From Wordnik.com. [If It's Saturday, Then This Must Be Tampa] Reference
Just some jewels, pre-spangle. : x xo tastyfake at. From Wordnik.com. [Tastyfake Designs] Reference
She would see like fireflies the stars alight and spangle. From Wordnik.com. [Lundy's Lane and Other Poems] Reference
The silvery leaves of the eucalyptus trees spangle like tinsel. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Matador’s Hotel] Reference
He is pointing out the spangle of stars in the sky, each constellation. From Wordnik.com. [These Dreams We Are Having] Reference
You know my reputation -- 30 years in a circus and never lost a spangle. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
He is pointing out the spangle of stars in the sky, each constellation. From Wordnik.com. [These Dreams We Are Having] Reference
She was wearing a spangle wig and a stretch lace dress with a ruffle front. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Birds twitter in the pines, fountains spangle amid neatly tended tulip beds. From Wordnik.com. [Culture Club] Reference
What has become of these groups of fascinating people gotten up in silk and spangle?. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
July 21st, 2006 at 3: 29 pm aleesa says: how to sing the star spangle banner in English. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Candidate Bush Would ‘Sing The Star-Spangled Banner in Spanish’ At Hispanic Festivals] Reference
Grey metallic spangle: iron, nickel, cobalt (magnetic) and platinum metals (non-magnetic). From Wordnik.com. [1.1 Blow pipe assaying] Reference
I thought you a broken toy that had lasted its time; a worthless spangle that was tarnished, and thrown away. From Wordnik.com. [David Copperfield] Reference
Readers have taken me to task since my last Country Diary on the pools that spangle the high ridges like glittering sequins. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Lake District] Reference
Far off, the lights of Palm Beach had come on, a spangle, part of another world, a reflection of the sunset riding the waves. From Wordnik.com. [Second Skin]
Remember when I was a disco dangle with a spangle sweating in my sticky pocket caning pop and disco dangle darling watching you?. From Wordnik.com. [Bone Dust Disco] Reference
Fireflies filled the darkness with a twinkling mist, so that the immense spangle of the purple sky seemed to have invaded the purple ambiguities of earth. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
But the boy still gazes after the spangle in the dust. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
Presently their objective came into sight: a spangle of lights on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Tam o' the Scoots] Reference
But she betrayed nothing except mild surprise at seeing the spangle from her dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure-Train] Reference
He took her in his arms, and the spangle-crowned gipsy head fell heavily on his shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighted Match] Reference
"He is the big boss," says the boy with awe, gazing after the spangle of the flying train. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
There was perpetual anxiety, fluttering concern, at seeing it thus go off spangle by spangle. From Wordnik.com. [La faute de l'Abbe Mouret] Reference
One can just see her profile and its twinkling spangle, and her talk appears to proceed from a metal spring. From Wordnik.com. [Under Fire: the story of a squad] Reference
I mean anything stuck in or on, like a spangle, because it is pretty in itself, although it reveals nothing. From Wordnik.com. [A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare] Reference
"A spangle from a sequin dress," he muttered to himself; then, turning to Miss Grey, "Did any one wear such a dress last night?". From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure-Train] Reference
And at any moment, of course, a turn of the kaleidoscope might suddenly toss a bright spangle into the grey pattern of one's days. From Wordnik.com. [The Reef] Reference
There was certainly some sort of enmity between him and the doctor, which the remark about the spangle seemed to fan into a flame. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure-Train] Reference
Nights, vol i. 32; ix. 294; for the dirham, i. 33, ii. 316, etc.; and for the Fals or Fils = a fish scale, a spangle of metal, vol. i. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Though the dusk of twilight was hardly yet apparent, lights were beginning to spangle the city like pop-corn bursting in a deep skillet. From Wordnik.com. [Strictly business: more stories of the four million] Reference
Constance, he said, had plunged into these new spangle, candle and high singing services; was all for symbols, harps, effigies, what not. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
The flowers are covered with a fancy stitch that forms regular little lozenges, and every second row of stitches is hidden under a spangle. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopedia of Needlework] Reference
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