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  • Through it, you could watch the glimmers of phosphorescence in the ocean's dark, and if you pressed your hand to it, you could feel the deep water on the other side, shockingly cold.†   (source)
  • At multiple depths, as far as I could see, there were evanescent trails of phosphorescent green bubbles, the wake of speeding fish.†   (source)
  • Outside, mockingbirds were singing blithely, and, once in a while, when the songsters took flight, Mariam could see their wings catching the phosphorescent blue of moonlight beaming through the clouds.†   (source)
  • The glow around Mother is unearthly, phosphorescent.†   (source)
  • The basin was full of an emerald liq-uid emitting that phosphorescent glow.†   (source)
  • He flicked them on, saw the reassuringly familiar phosphorescent green image.†   (source)
  • We'd sit on the sea wall, and feel the cool air off the ocean, and watch the phosphorescence sparkle in the surf.†   (source)
  • Fish rippled their phosphorescent stripes inside the tank.†   (source)
  • In the phosphorescent light, it made for an eerie collage of empty sockets and decaying rib cages flickering around him.†   (source)
  • From here she had a view of the driveway and the lake across which lay a column of shimmering phosphorescence, white hot from the fierce late afternoon heat.†   (source)
  • That night, when John Brown entered the laboratory, he was pleased to see the writing on the wall, in firm phosphorescent letters: "Because I don't want to."†   (source)
  • Beatty's pink phosphorescent cheeks glimmered in the high darkness, and he was smiling furiously.†   (source)
  • As the night wore on (phosphorescent in the streetlamps, violet city midnights that never quite faded to black) I turned from side to side, the low ceiling over the bunk pressing down on me so heavily that sometimes I woke convinced I was lying underneath the bed instead of on top of it.†   (source)
  • The darkness would have been absolute except for the intermittent flash of lightning to the north and a soft phosphorescence rising from the marshes.†   (source)
  • The moonlight gave the seaweed some of the phosphorescence she'd seen before, adding a rainbow sheen, as if lit from within.†   (source)
  • The left hand was curled open; the fingernails were filthy; the wristwatch gave off a green phosphorescent shine as it slipped beneath the thick waters.†   (source)
  • Up above them on the overpass embankment, he can dimly make out phosphorescent shapes-green-jacketed Enforcers orbiting some strange attractor.†   (source)
  • When he lowered his hand, the mark was shining as if it had been etched with phosphorescent ink.†   (source)
  • But, indifferent to the uproar, she was captivated on the spot by a paper seller who was demonstrating magic inks, red inks with an ambience of blood, inks of sad aspect for messages of condolence, phosphorescent inks for reading in the dark, invisible inks that revealed themselves in the light.†   (source)
  • A spray of salt water broke across the boat, dousing the marines there; the phosphorescence boiled up green and luminous against the darkness.†   (source)
  • That's what you used to say about phosphorescence when you were little.†   (source)
  • Perry, his eyes glitteringly immense in a face now almost phosphorescently pale, studied the ceiling; and presently, after placing a picture postcard on the patient's bedside table, the rebuffed visitor departed.†   (source)
  • And the sky now seemed to descend, no longer phosphorescent with possibilities, but rigid with the mineral of choices, heavy as the weight of the finite earth, onto his chest.†   (source)
  • Lifting their hems off the floor, she and Farica wended their way in single file toward the back of the room, past hourglasses and scales, arcane tomes bound with black iron, dwarven astrolabes, and piles of phosphorescent crystal prisms that produced fitful blue flashes.†   (source)
  • At night men hang over the rails staring silently at the phosphorescence of the water as their LST slices through the Pacific.†   (source)
  • They had entered a long tunnel of some weird phosphorescent rock, and the wet walls glittered and twinkled with thousands of minute starbursts.†   (source)
  • The lights of New Orleans grew small and dim until there appeared behind us only a pale phosphorescence against the lightening clouds.†   (source)
  • Algae, it was noted, could also glow phosphorescently.†   (source)
  • Shay Bourne was a killer; his sentences curled like a puppy chasing its tail; he thought he had something phosphorescent coursing through his veins because a television had zapped him in the middle of the night.†   (source)
  • After a night of brilliant phosphorescence in the water, a phenomenon she had longed to witness, she wrote in ecstasy of a "blazing ocean" as far as she could see.†   (source)
  • I'm walking naked as a beam of light along brick paths and squares of grass, phosphorescent and clean.†   (source)
  • The gentle waves wore only thin frayed collars of phosphorescent foam.†   (source)
  • Dozens of giant phosphorescent seashells decorated, the clearing, each illuminating the surrounding grass with a radius of soft yellow light.†   (source)
  • Fishing on the pier and watching the phosphorescence lighting up the water below.†   (source)
  • The sheets of glass in the corner window of her living room made it look like the prow of a ship in motion, and the lights of the city were like phosphorescent sparks on the black waves of steel and stone.†   (source)
  • In a grove of hysterical cypress, where the leaves danced in the wind like sequins, the clash of so many beams of light against the dark made a continual phosphorescence.†   (source)
  • Since church was so close, just up the hill, all of us phosphorescent boys walked.†   (source)
  • In a cove where there was a small sandy beach they spread their supper on a driftwood log, and in the long twilight, because it was a time of much phosphorescence, they lingered to watch the fish jump and fall back into pools of golden light.†   (source)
  • Only the pendant remained, slowing with its own phosphorescence.†   (source)
  • A lovely phosphorescence enveloped her face as the train plunged toward sunlight, out of the claustrophobic tunnel and into the marshy maritime reaches of south Brooklyn.†   (source)
  • The ground was mossy and barely phosphorescent the way a rotten log sometimes is.†   (source)
  • Only a faint phosphorescence, with no apparent source, occurred about them.†   (source)
  • It was not he but something greater than himself that wept and sobbed in him, and shone in the darkness with bright, phosphorescent words.†   (source)
  • The war explosions that had turned the building into a rainbow crater had also fused the ceramic glazes, the metals, glasses, and plastics in the old plant; and a molten conglomerate had oozed down through the floors to settle on the floor of the lowest vault and harden into shimmering pavement, crystal in texture, phosphorescent in color, strangely vibrant and singing.†   (source)
  • Soon Jidda faded into the shadows of evening, and the Nautilus went back beneath the mildly phosphorescent waters.   (source)
    phosphorescent = giving a dim glowing light
  • The Middle Sea glows at night with a greenish, unhealthy phosphorescence.†   (source)
  • Plumes of phosphorescent colors were ascending to the sky like delicate Bengal lights.†   (source)
  • In phosphorescent green he saw the tables and chairs.†   (source)
  • He was a phosphorescent target; he knew it, he felt it.†   (source)
  • A dozen phosphorescent scars laced the Agent's chest and arms.†   (source)
  • Phosphorescent moss covered the ceiling, bathing the room in a blue-and-green glow.†   (source)
  • He put them on, anyway, and the world took on a greenish phosphorescent glow.†   (source)
  • He sailed over great patches of kelp and spellbinding acres of phosphorescent plankton.†   (source)
  • Bram's talisman had burst into a phosphorescent flame.†   (source)
  • Of Land Rovers and African rangers with phosphorescent smiles.†   (source)
  • They sank leaving a trail of phosphorescence in the water.†   (source)
  • More moss spread along the smooth brown tunnel walls, but it glowed with phosphorescent light.†   (source)
  • It was the yellow Gulf weed that had made so much . phosphorescence in the night Fish, he said, .†   (source)
  • The line showed like a phosphorescent streak in the water straight out from his shoulders.†   (source)
  • The students in Botanical Transgenics (Ornamental Division) had created a whole array of drought-and-flood-resistant tropical blends, with flowers or leaves in lurid shades of chrome yellow and brilliant flame red and phosphorescent blue and neon purple.†   (source)
  • The paint must be phosphorescent.†   (source)
  • Occasionally they sang softly; occasionally they turned cartwheels down by the moving streak of phosphorescence.†   (source)
  • He sat flinging out arguments, rebuttals, accusations, his heart firing like a piston in his chest, his thoughts whirling like flies around some phosphorescent blaze.†   (source)
  • I felt someone's bare breast, briefly—only once, and it was an accident—one warm night when we went swimming off the beach at Little Boar's Head and the phosphorescence, in my opinion, was especially seductive.†   (source)
  • Seen from the darkened deck in the light of a full moon, the smooth, silent river and the pastureland on either bank became a phosphorescent plain.†   (source)
  • Phosphorescence and all other organisms are made of elements that were once blended together in a star.†   (source)
  • Looking out the window I can see it, a glimmer, like the phosphorescence you get in stirred seawater, behind the sky, which is overcast and too low and a dull gray infrared.†   (source)
  • He hung there in the phosphorescence of the sea, gathering light and undulating, and his boat moved now on the tidal current, brightly lit and silent in the fog.†   (source)
  • Something blue, that glimmers down there at the end of the garden, the phosphorescence of snow in shadow.†   (source)
  • After six years he had tried one hundred seventy-two of them, in addition to complementary treatments that appeared on the labels of the bottles, and all that he achieved was an itching, foul-smelling eczema of the scalp called ringworm borealis by the medicine men of Martinique because it emitted a phosphorescent glow in the dark.†   (source)
  • The line of phosphorescence bulged about the sand grains and little pebbles; it held them each in a dimple of tension, then suddenly accepted them with an inaudible syllable and moved on.†   (source)
  • It was just after sunset and the phosphorescence in the water boiling underneath Carl's rowing oars inspired him to comment—a boy so moved by the beauty of the world he could not keep himself from utterance: "Look at those colors," he'd said.†   (source)
  • In the phosphorescent green glow of the night-vision goggles, Grant peered down into the room from the ledge, looking at the first nest.†   (source)
  • Sol never forgot the images from those sun-drenched and wind-filled days, and the secret image he would always most cherish was of Sarai rising nude from a nighttime swim, the Core stars blazing above while her own body glowed constellations from the phosphorescence of the island's wake.†   (source)
  • There was a brief phosphorescent flare, and then, in shades of electronic green and black, he could see the Land Cruiser behind, with Dr. Grant and Dr. Malcolm inside.†   (source)
  • The light level was very low; Sira's middle-aged flesh seemed to glow with a pale phosphorescence while her much younger boyfriend's white buttocks gave the illusion in the dim light of floating separately from the rest of his tanned body.†   (source)
  • Aboard the Girandole, Old Kady lights the lanterns and candle-globes hanging from the sagging second tier and, as if not to be outdone, the darkened jungle begins to glow with the faint phosphorescence of decay while glowbirds and multihued gossamers can be seen floating from branch to branch in the darker upper regions.†   (source)
  • Sol remembered the young woman rising nude from the phosphorescent wake of the motile isle on Maul-Covenant.†   (source)
  • We passed one-a large one almost half a kilometer in length-and I strained to make out details but the isle was dark except for the glow of its phosphorescent wake.†   (source)
  • Three weeks in that huge, swaying tree-house under the billowing treesails with the dolphin herders keeping pace like outriders, tropical sunsets filling the evening with wonder, the canopy of stars at night, and our own wake marked by a thousand phosphorescent swirls that mirrored the constellations above.†   (source)
  • The landscape disappeared in a phosphorescent flash as thirteen bolts of lightning struck the battlefield.†   (source)
  • This is how I will see her forever: lying unmoving, like something in a museum, with her head on the antimacassar pinned to the arm of the chesterfield, a bed pillow under her neck, the rubber plant on the landing visible behind her, turning her head to look at us, her scrubbed face, without her glasses, white and strangely luminous in the dim space, like a phosphorescent mushroom.†   (source)
  • And presumably that was long enough for this irascible fellow to give himself a phosphorescent makeover.†   (source)
  • Blue phosphorescent mist clung to their fur, throwing aquarium-like ripples of light across the brick walls.†   (source)
  • The air around them seemed to warp as they went on, the lights of the houses blazing up around them like torches, the canal shimmering with an evil phosphorescent glow.†   (source)
  • The phosphorescence in the walls started to dim, and Alec drew his witchlight from his pocket and raised it overhead.†   (source)
  • Like a black tidal wave upon a bleak shore, a dark tumult infilled with phosphorescent beauties and badly spoiled dreams, Mr. Dark sounded and hissed his feet, his legs, his body, his sharp face forward.†   (source)
  • Colonel Aureliano Buendia had the impression that the phosphorescence of her bones was showing through her skin and that she moved in an atmosphere of Saint Elmo's fire, in a stagnant air where one could still note a hidden smell of gunpowder.†   (source)
  • I saw a tiny glove on the door which was phosphorescent in the shadows, and for just a moment I thought it a tiny, severed hand.†   (source)
  • The woman was pushing forward, to squeeze herself into the group, to place some human bodies between herself and the sight of the great vacuum-the plain stretching off and dissolving into moonlight, the dead phosphorescence of impotent, borrowed energy.†   (source)
  • And beyond, what seemed an incredible distance, was a tiny pinprick of light; not phosphorescence or fluorescence, but the hard, true light of day.†   (source)
  • Just their few lights in the slate-blue darkness would have, in their simplicity and purity, more of what made up light itself than the accumulated phosphorescence of whole ranks of great cities.†   (source)
  • Looking down, Clary saw that the angel crouched inside a pentagram made of connected runes graven deeply into the floor; they glowed with a faint phosphorescent light.†   (source)
  • I am Legion," it panted, hugging itself and rocking while the circle's flames blazed with sparking, phosphorescent intensity.†   (source)
  • The strand was more than a hundred feet across at this point, and the phosphorescent tumble of surf churned out a low white noise that washed like a ghost sea around him.†   (source)
  • It was a dark old man with large green eyes that gave his face a ghostly phosphorescence and with a cross of ashes on his forehead.†   (source)
  • What spell Cooper had placed on the door, Max did not know, but its contours began to glow with deep-sea phosphorescence.†   (source)
  • The walls glowed with a phosphorescent shine, and four roads branched off from where they stood: the one behind them, and three others.†   (source)
  • In the middle of the night they broke out at white-hot speed onto a vast plain that could hardly hold the onslaught of the broad sky and its blazing, three-dimensional, phosphorescent cargo.†   (source)
  • It was monotonous but satisfying work as he burnished each smooth, curved section to a natural gleam until the oil saturated its surface and it began to emit a phosphorescent glow.†   (source)
  • It looked like a phosphorescent vein showing through the skin of the earth, a delicate vein without blood.†   (source)
  • The Slow Mutants fell back a step and watched them go with faces hardly human (or pathetically so), faces that generated the weak phosphorescence common to those weird deep-sea fishes that live under in-credible black pressure, faces that held no anger or hate on their senseless orbs, but only what seemed to be a semiconscious, idiot regret.†   (source)
  • The automobile headlights theory was again advanced, as was the idea of refracted starlight and fox fire, which is a phosphorescent glow emitted by certain fungi on rotting wood.†   (source)
  • When he reached the empty darkness beyond Philadelphia-in the place where the flames of Rearden Steel had for years been his favorite landmark, his greeting in the loneliness of night, the beacon of a living earth-he saw a snow-covered spread, dead-white and phosphorescent in the starlight, a spread of peaks and craters that looked like the surface of the moon.†   (source)
  • He saw the phosphorescence of the Gulf weed in the water as he rowed over the part of the ocean that the fishermen called the great well because there was a sudden deep of seven hundred fathoms where all sorts of fish congregated because of the swirl the current made against the steep walls of the floor of the ocean.†   (source)
  • His hand was . phosphorescent from skinning the fish and he watched the flow of the water against it The flow was less strong and as he rubbed the side of his hand against the planking of the . skiff, particles of phosphorus floated off and drifted slowly astern He is tiring or he is resting, the old man said….†   (source)
  • The stars were white and sharp beyond the flesh of the Martian, and they were sewn into his flesh like scintillas swallowed into the thin, phosphorescent membrane of a gelatinous sea fish.†   (source)
  • …a migration of birds, bright birds, across a waveless ocean of milk; a procession of musical notes through the mind of a slightly mad composer; a school of those deep-swimming fish whose bodies are whorls and runnels of light, circling about some phosphorescent plant within a cold and sea-deep pit; the Spiral Nebula, suddenly collapsing upon its center; a storm, each drop of which becomes a feather, songbird or jewel; and (and perhaps most cogent) a Temple full of terrible and highly…†   (source)
  • The sight of the guests on the floor below… The glitter of uniforms, of dress, of phosphorescent flesh, of beams of pastel light swaying on stilt legs… Tenser, said the Tensor… The sound of voices, of music, of annunciators, of echoes… Tension, apprehension, and dissension… The wonderful potpourri of flesh and perfume, of food, of wine, of gilt ostentation… Tension, apprehension… The gilt trappings of death… Of something, by God, which has failed for seventy years… A lost art… As lost…†   (source)
  • Shining their phosphorescent eyes and shooting them in the dark.†   (source)
  • I am wrapped round with phrases, like damp straw; I glow, phosphorescent.†   (source)
  • He rolled over on his stomach and looked down at the panes of glass scattered through the darkness below; they caught reflections from somewhere and looked like phosphorescent, self-generated springs of light rising out of the ground.†   (source)
  • The full moon, hidden by veils of cloud, threw a pale phosphorescent luminousness over the heavens, and the towers of the church stood up black against this silvery fleece.†   (source)
  • …of water everywhere, lapping on smooth stone, reflected in a dapple of light on painted ceilings; of a night at the Corombona palace such as Byron might have known, and another Byronic night fishing for scampi in the shallows of Chioggia, the phosphorescent wake of the little ship, the lantern swinging in the prow, and the net coming up full of weed and sand and floundering fishes; of melon and prosciutto on the balcony in the cool of the morning; of hot cheese sandwiches and champagne…†   (source)
  • …old hunger the great fish whose names he scarcely knew—whose names, garnered with blind toil from a thousand books, from Augustine, himself a name, to Jeremy Taylor, the English metaphysician, were brief evocations of scalded light, electric, phosphorescent, illuminating by their magic connotations the vast far depths of ritual and religion: They came—Bartholomew, Hilarius, Chrysostomos, Polycarp, Anthony, Jerome, and the forty martyrs of Cappadocia who walked the waves—coiled like…†   (source)
  • The secondary glow of the light above the circle of light was on her face, and if I had wanted to I could have guessed that some of that glow was given off softly by her face as though the flesh had a delicate and unflagging and serene phosphorescence from its own inwardness.†   (source)
  • Their faces are phosphorescent, with darker streaks.†   (source)
  • Turning sharply, he walked towards the city's gold phosphorescence.†   (source)
  • Besides this, Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds.†   (source)
  • That explains the phosphorescent glow from this so–called narwhale that so puzzled us scientists!†   (source)
  • This was no mere phosphorescent phenomenon, that much was unmistakable.†   (source)
  • It drew nearer, always moving toward the phosphorescent glow that signaled the Nautilus's presence.†   (source)
  • "It's only a cluster of phosphorescent particles!" exclaimed one of the officers.†   (source)
  • And up came that wandering will-o'the-wisp, that vagulous phosphorescence, old Mrs. Hilbery, stretching her hands to the blaze of his laughter (about the Duke and the Lady), which, as she heard it across the room, seemed to reassure her on a point which sometimes bothered her if she woke early in the morning and did not like to call her maid for a cup of tea; how it is certain we must die.†   (source)
  • He was as phosphorescently pale as Dr. Krokowski, and up front sat the Austrian horseman, steering, although the face was very vague, like that of someone you've only heard cough.†   (source)
  • It was a very black night and the girl was dressed in cream-coloured muslin, that must have glimmered under the tall trees of the dark park like a phosphorescent fish in a cupboard.†   (source)
  • We all followed his movements with our eyes, for undoubtedly some nervousness was growing on us, and we saw a whole mass of phosphorescence, which twinkled like stars.†   (source)
  • It was the best of nationally advertised and quantitatively produced alarm-clocks, with all modern attachments, including cathedral chime, intermittent alarm, and a phosphorescent dial.†   (source)
  • Whilst all the landscape was in neutral shade his companion's face, which was the focus of his eyes, rising above the mist stratum, seemed to have a sort of phosphorescence upon it.†   (source)
  • Glancing narrowly into the more distant darkness, he caught occasional glimpses of visages that loomed pallid and ghostly, lit with a phosphorescent glow.†   (source)
  • All round me were little ripples, combing over with a sharp, bristling sound and slightly phosphorescent.†   (source)
  • They dined at the new Beach Casino at Monte Carlo …. much later they swam in Beaulieu in a roofless cavern of white moonlight formed by a circlet of pale boulders about a cup of phosphorescent water, facing Monaco and the blur of Mentone.†   (source)
  • A phosphorescent flash passed under it.†   (source)
  • He was about thirty-five years old, broad-shouldered, stout, considerably shorter than the two men across from him, so that he had to tip his head back to look them in the eye, and extraordinarily pale— there was almost a translucence, even phosphorescence, to his pallor, and it was enhanced by dark, glowing eyes, black eyebrows, and a rather long beard that already showed a few gray strands and ended in two diverging points.†   (source)
  • I stepped to the side swiftly, and on the shadowy water I could see nothing except a faint phosphorescent flash revealing the glassy smoothness of the sleeping surface.†   (source)
  • The materialist, as the son of a philosophy of pure robust health, can never be argued out of his belief that the mind is a phosphorescent product of matter; whereas the idealist, who proceeds from the principle of creative hysteria, will tend to answer, indeed will very soon definitively answer the question of primacy in exactly opposite terms.†   (source)
  • Before I could form a guess a faint flash of phosphorescent light, which seemed to issue suddenly from the naked body of a man, flickered in the sleeping water with the elusive, silent play of summer lightning in a night sky.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXXVII THE STORM—THE TWO TOGETHER A light flapped over the scene, as if reflected from phosphorescent wings crossing the sky, and a rumble filled the air.†   (source)
  • During this time the captain had thrown off his vest and shirt, and secured his trousers round his waist; his feet were naked, so he had no shoes and stockings to take off; after these preparations he placed his finger on his lips, and lowering himself noiselessly into the sea, swam towards the shore with such precaution that it was impossible to hear the slightest sound; he could only be traced by the phosphorescent line in his wake.†   (source)
  • Many men have been praised as vividly imaginative on the strength of their profuseness in indifferent drawing or cheap narration:—reports of very poor talk going on in distant orbs; or portraits of Lucifer coming down on his bad errands as a large ugly man with bat's wings and spurts of phosphorescence; or exaggerations of wantonness that seem to reflect life in a diseased dream.†   (source)
  • While this pallidness was burning aloft, few words were heard from the enchanted crew; who in one thick cluster stood on the forecastle, all their eyes gleaming in that pale phosphorescence, like a far away constellation of stars.†   (source)
  • In one case, however, it is real sunshine; in the other, it more resembles the phosphorescent glow of decaying wood.†   (source)
  • The sun had set the evening before in a red mist, in the midst of the phosphorescent scintillations of the ocean.†   (source)
  • We hear this strident and lilting refrain which we should say had been lighted up by a phosphorescent gleam, and which seems to have been flung into the forest by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:— Miralabi suslababo Mirliton ribonribette Surlababi mirlababo Mirliton ribonribo.†   (source)
  • On the rocky, volcanic seafloor, there bloomed quite a collection of moving flora: sponges, sea cucumbers, jellyfish called sea gooseberries that were adorned with reddish tendrils and gave off a subtle phosphorescence, members of the genus Beroe that are commonly known by the name melon jellyfish and are bathed in the shimmer of the whole solar spectrum, free–swimming crinoids one meter wide that reddened the waters with their crimson hue, treelike basket stars of the greatest beauty,…†   (source)
  • Jellyfish, microscopic crustaceans, and sea–pen coral lit it faintly with their phosphorescent glimmers.†   (source)
  • The propeller churned the waves with mathematical regularity, sometimes emerging above the surface and throwing phosphorescent spray to great heights.†   (source)
  • The Nautilus had drifted into the midst of some phosphorescent strata, which, in this darkness, came off as positively dazzling.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I tried to peer through the dense gloom, which was broken only by the phosphorescent flickers coming from our movements.†   (source)
  • From its glare and whiteness, I recognized the electric glow that had played around this underwater boat like some magnificent phosphorescent phenomenon.†   (source)
  • They were blue sharks, dreadful man–eaters with enormous tails, dull, glassy stares, and phosphorescent matter oozing from holes around their snouts.†   (source)
  • I might add that during the night, the Gulf Stream's phosphorescent waters rivaled the electric glow of our beacon, especially in the stormy weather that frequently threatened us.†   (source)
  • Then it retreated two or three miles, leaving a phosphorescent trail comparable to those swirls of steam that shoot behind the locomotive of an express train.†   (source)
  • I was stretched out on the seafloor directly beneath some bushes of algae, when I raised my head and spied two enormous masses hurtling by, throwing off phosphorescent glimmers.†   (source)
  • And the power of their light was increased by those glimmers unique to medusas, starfish, common jellyfish, angel–wing clams, and other phosphorescent zoophytes, which were saturated with grease from organic matter decomposed by the sea, and perhaps with mucus secreted by fish.†   (source)
  • We also caught a large number of yellow–green gilthead, half a decimeter long and tasting like dorado, plus some flying gurnards, authentic underwater swallows that, on dark nights, alternately streak air and water with their phosphorescent glimmers.†   (source)
  • In essence, over a period of time several ships had encountered "an enormous thing" at sea, a long spindle–shaped object, sometimes giving off a phosphorescent glow, infinitely bigger and faster than any whale.†   (source)
  • …emerald ribbons and dressed in velvet and silk, golden angelfish passed before our eyes like courtiers in the paintings of Veronese; spurred gilthead stole by with their swift thoracic fins; thread herring fifteen inches long were wrapped in their phosphorescent glimmers; gray mullet thrashed the sea with their big fleshy tails; red salmon seemed to mow the waves with their slicing pectorals; and silver moonfish, worthy of their name, rose on the horizon of the waters like the whitish…†   (source)
  • If we accept the hypotheses of the microbiologist Ehrenberg—who believes that these underwater depths are lit up by phosphorescent organisms—nature has certainly saved one of her most prodigious sights for residents of the sea, and I could judge for myself from the thousandfold play of the light.†   (source)
  • …smoked salmon; semired wrasse sporting scales only at the bases of their dorsal and anal fins; grunts on which gold and silver mingle their luster with that of ruby and topaz; yellow–tailed gilthead whose flesh is extremely dainty and whose phosphorescent properties give them away in the midst of the waters; porgies tinted orange, with slender tongues; croakers with gold caudal fins; black surgeonfish; four–eyed fish from Surinam, etc. This "et cetera" won't keep me from mentioning…†   (source)
  • But we had to keep walking, and we went forward while overhead there scudded schools of Portuguese men–of–war that let their ultramarine tentacles drift in their wakes, medusas whose milky white or dainty pink parasols were festooned with azure tassels and shaded us from the sun's rays, plus jellyfish of the species Pelagia panopyra that, in the dark, would have strewn our path with phosphorescent glimmers!†   (source)
  • (He sticks out a flickering phosphorescent scorpion tongue, his hand on his fork) Messiah!†   (source)
  • The phosphorescence, that bluey greeny.†   (source)
  • EDWARD THE SEVENTH: (Levitates over heaps of slain, in the garb and with the halo of Joking Jesus, a white jujube in his phosphorescent face) My methods are new and are causing surprise.†   (source)
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