Lexicographical Neighbors of Sparkie
Literary usage of Sparkie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Charles O'Malley: The Irish Dragoon by Charles James Lever (1866)
"By-the-by, sparkie, what a mess you made of that pea-soup to-day! By Jove!
I never felt so ill in my life. ... Come, sparkie, bear a hand, the liquor's out. ..."
2. Pierce Egan's Book of Sports and Mirror of Life by Pierce Egan (1832)
"But at length a white shaggy colly, named sparkie, that belonged to the cowherd
boy, seem to have comprehended something of our perplexity ; for we observed ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1819)
"We did not however lose above sixty in all, but I am certain sparkie saved us at
least two hundred. We were for several days utterly ignorant how affairs ..."
4. Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon by Charles James Lever, Hablot Knight Browne (1892)
"By-the-bye, sparkie, what a mess you made of that pea- soup to-day ! By Jove, I
never felt so ill in my life ! " " Na, na; it was na the soup. ..."
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