He had known that firefly cluster of lights above to be the majestic processional of worlds.

In fact, I am more interested in them than in anything else, not excepting the telephonewhich makes Aladdin's lamp look like a firefly in the sunshine.

[G.]; [chemical substances giving off light without burning] phosphorus, yellow phosphorus; scintillator, phosphor; firefly luminescence.

[luminous insects] glowworm, firefly, June bug, lightning bug.

Here and there yellow light flashed near the ground, far from the walkers, as if a faint firefly were astray in a tangle of flowers.

Presently there appears, far off, a light like a low-flying firefly, as it comes nearer, it is seen to proceed from the Mellah lamp of open-work brass that a servant carries ahead of two merchants on their way home from Elbali.

Here, hold up your firefly lantern so you can see, climb upon that low stump, and then you can jump on my back.

Then, after a while, by the gleam of the firefly, Uncle Wiggily did come upon Buddy and Brighteyes fast asleep in a corner.

And the dew is on the clover, And the night-hawk whirls in circles overhead; When the cow-bells melt and mingle In a softened, silver jingle, And the old hen calls the chickens in to bed; When the marshy meadows glimmer With a misty, purple shimmer, And the twilight flush is changing into shade; When the firefly lamps are burning And the dusk to dark is turning, Then the bullfrogs chant their evening serenade:

He used to trade between this wharf and Bristol on a little schooner called the Firefly, and seeing wot a silly, foolish kind o' man he was, I took a little bit o' notice of 'im.

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Forgotten firefly.

Forgotten firefly.

R104702, 29Dec52, George W. Edwards (A) WILSON, DESEMEA (NEWMAN) Firefly, a novel, by Diana Patrick [pseud.]

Forgotten firefly.

About the sixth night a ship went by scarcely half a mile away from me, with all its lights ablaze and its ports open, looking like a big firefly.

* "'The learned say that your light will one day be no more,' said the firefly to the stars.

While he stood looking around him in bewilderment, a Firefly alighted on his arm.

They stopped first in the Witch's orchard, and the Firefly held its lantern up while the Prince filled his pockets with the fruit.

The Firefly led him on until they came to a town where was a fine inn.

But Jules, in his white dress and shoulder-knots of blue ribbon, was toddling across the lawn after a firefly.

"Little Boy Blue, oh, where are you? O, where are you-u-u-u?" He only laughed in the dream picture and ran on after the firefly.

Slowly they crossed the greensward, with fairy-like light of firefly to illumine the way; speaking as lovers will, with bated breath.

Doubled over until his chin rested almost upon the sharp points of his knees, he gazed steadily at the beacon, and as he looked it shuddered and grew dark, like a firefly that suddenly closes its wings.

A small firefly (a species of Lampyris) is plentiful, showing out at night like a twinkling phosphorescent spark, slowly flitting about from tree to tree or resting on the leaves wet with dew.