39 examples of phosphorescences in sentences

The man's fantastic headgear, the fringe of his curling oily locks, the hawk outline of his face momentarily silhouetted against the phosphorescence astern as he glanced to windward, all lent him an appearance of another day.

Against the dark blue of the evening sky to northward glowed a faint phosphorescence, arch-shaped, from which shot, with pulsating regularity, long shafts of light.

The surges beat on the shore louder than the ordinary, and the foam, even in these day hours, seemed to throw up a faint phosphorescence.

As for Victor, his face of leaden gray took on a tinge of green; he quaked with rage, and the glare he loosed on Lanyard made that young man wonder if he were mistaken in believing that the eyes of the prince shone in that dusky room with something nearly akin to the phosphorescence to be seen in the eyes of an animal at night.

For as the steamer stopped last night to pack her engines, and slipped along under sail at some three knots an hour, we made out clearly that the larger diffused patches of phosphorescence were Medusae, slowly opening and shutting, and rolling over and over now and then, giving out their light, as they rolled, seemingly from the thin limb alone, and not from the crown of their bell.

Light N. light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil; sunbeam, moonbeam; aurora. day; sunshine; light of day, light of heaven; moonlight, starlight, sunlight &c (luminary) 432; daylight, broad daylight, noontide light; noontide, noonday, noonday sun. glow &c v.; glimmering &c v.; glint; play of light, flood of light; phosphorescence, lambent flame.

382. spark, scintilla; phosphorescence, fluorescence.

She had contented herself with opening one of the window shutters, and the continual lightning flashes of the storm which was passing southward in the dark sky, sufficed her, bathing everything in a livid phosphorescence.

Maxime rushed off to the station to get the news in Paris, promising to come back later in the evening, but Clerambault stayed in the isolated house, from which in the distance could be seen the far-off phosphorescence of the city.

It was evidently that which had caused all the phosphorescence.

For a while he nodded, half asleep, beside his fire, watching the darkened river, where the mullet, shimmering with phosphorescence, still leaped starkly above the surface, and fell in spattering brilliance.

It was, by guess, about nine o'clock; and there was no light except the phosphorescence of the water.

The sentinels on the bridge were no longer scanning the surface of the sea with its pale phosphorescence.

Her innocence, her candour, her warm beauty, which was like a pale phosphorescence in the starlit darknessall had their potent effect upon me in that moment.

And I saw far above the Hand, towards the apex of the darkness, a circle of dim phosphorescence, a ghostly sphere

Consequently, the amount of light, even in an ordinary dark room, is sufficient to render the things of the Other-World invisible, on the same principle that faint phosphorescence is only visible in the profoundest darkness.

Directly the crystal and its story came to him, and he had satisfied himself, by seeing the phosphorescence with his own eyes, that there really was a certain evidence for Mr. Cave's statements, he proceeded to develop the matter systematically.

The tropical ocean had lost its phosphorescence, and the whirling steam rose in ghostly wreaths from the black waves that plunged incessantly, speckled with storm-tossed ships.

Even the "pyrophores" obstinately refused to show themselves to him, and attract him by the phosphorescences of their corselet.

Surf still foamed about her floats and lower gallerysurf all spangled with the phosphorescence that the Arabs call "jewels of the deep"but unless some sudden squall should fling itself against the coast, every probability favored the liner taking no further damage.

All the colors of the artist's palette are thrown across the sky, changing from red to orange, from orange to purple; each white-capped wave is touched with a rosy phosphorescence, and scintillates like a thousand jewels.

She returned their visit at Los Gatos, and there made the formal acquaintance of Don José's grandmother, a lady who still regarded the decrepit Concha as a giddy muchacha, and who herself glittered as with the phosphorescence of refined decay.

" The human aura is not always in a state of calm phosphorescence, however.

Many of them glow with a dull phosphorescence, instead of bright coloring.

There was pa and ma, or rather dad and mam, (about the bigness of tiger-cats, one was four feet and a half from tip to tail) and seven kittens well grown; and O, the spit, snarl, tusshush and crissish, and mow-waaugh they did kick up in their den, whilst in its darkness we could see the electricity or phosphorescence of their eyes and hair sparkling like chemical fire-works.

39 examples of  phosphorescences  in sentences