Word: sparkingly
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...that in which troop 9 of Boston put 12 men over a wooden wall 15 feet high in 35 seconds. In the fire making contest without matches, E. D. Davenport of Troop 4 won the championship, adjusting the bow and string and whirling the pivot until he obtained a spark to light the flame all in 43 seconds...
Every prominent amateur golfer in America with three exceptions sailed in quest of the British amateur championship at Deal. Francis Ouimet survived to the round before the semifinal to be extinguished, as the last spark of the American hope, by Roger Wethered. The latter won the title with consistent play in the preliminary rounds and supreme brilliance in the finals...
...perfectly good-hearted people who, seemingly engaged in occupations requiring intelligence, settle down to methods of working, and more important, habits of thinking no less mechanical than turning a screw every ten seconds. Clerks, at first fresh and alert, who allow their jobs to become mere routine with no spark of inquiry enlivening a high-sided rut; preachers and educators who discard their youthful enthusiasm and experimentation for dogma; engineers who reject commonsense in favor of half understood formulae; doctors who rely on the heroic remedies of former ages--such men may do no personal evil, but their influence...
...through the assistance of the young financier and by the happy invention of a new eyeglass clip that Mr. Pinney's shattered fortunes are providentially retrieved at the last moment. And it is also in large measure due to the little spark of pompous courage which continues to burn in his insignificant bosom. He is a contemptible figure, is Mr. Pinney. But he is not wholly ignoble...
...witches, and the strident, crackling tones of old women was not realized. There was too much restraint in the acting of the Doc- tor, the father, and kinsmen, furthermore. Sentences were too rounded, and uttered in too much of a "there,-that's-over-with" manner. Only the spark of a candle and "man is born" were really impressive...