darkness vs sparkle

darkness

noun
  • Lack of knowledge; obscurity or meaning or intelligibility; the unknown. 

  • Secrecy; concealment. 

  • The product of being dark. 

  • Gloom; gloominess; depression. 

  • The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light. 

  • Hell. 

  • The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color. 

  • Lack of understanding or compassion; spiritual or mental blindness. 

sparkle

verb
  • To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash. 

  • To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles 

  • To shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle 

  • To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce 

  • To emit in the form or likeness of sparks. 

noun
  • Brilliance; luster. 

  • Liveliness; vivacity. 

  • The quality of being sparkling or fizzy; effervescence. 

  • A little spark; a scintillation. 

How often have the words darkness and sparkle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )