'phosphorescent' - but the children are still and utterly captivated. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
To call the phosphorescent-Slurpee spill of paint on our Genesis coupe: Lime Rock Green. From Wordnik.com. [Automotive News Blog at CARandDRIVER.com - Car News Resource] Reference
This missive was couched in formal terms, and emitted a kind of phosphorescent wrath. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Claudius, A True Story] Reference
There are substances -- "phosphorescent" things we call them -- which give out a mysterious cold light of their own. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
The river was like a stream of golden fire, each ripple with a kind of phosphorescent gleam as the foam slipped away. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Detroit] Reference
The phosphorescent billows where the hand of the Almighty. From Wordnik.com. [Pan and Æolus: Poems] Reference
Others persist for a long time, with a faint phosphorescent glow. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms] Reference
Smaller ones zoom back and forth, silver and orange, phosphorescent. From Wordnik.com. [Bundle] Reference
Stare out to the abyss of the ocean, the phosphorescent tumble of waves. From Wordnik.com. ["You Go"] Reference
It burst like a phosphorescent flower into petals of glass that drifted and drifted. From Wordnik.com. [Swimming with Tongues] Reference
Then he struck the match, which emitted a faint phosphorescent glow, and went dark again. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
Under the best conditions, the radiation will assume an almost phosphorescent appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms] Reference
As long as they were within the valley boundaries the phosphorescent bushes marked a path. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Back in the deeper blackness at the cliff-base a phosphorescent something wavered and glowed. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
The Japanese matted floor, even in darkness, gives out a sort of ghostly, phosphorescent glow. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
Blessed be his black face! how unlike the pale, phosphorescent forms I fancied just a little while ago!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
It churned the still waters into a phosphorescent foam which rendered the darkness only more oppressive. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
On the sea black, low objects were rushing along with foaming phosphorescent wakes trailing behind them. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
All round me were little ripples, combing over with a sharp, bristling sound, and slightly phosphorescent. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
According to the writer, it was not spiders 'web, but something like asbestos; also that it was phosphorescent. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
The Trade Center installed battery-powered lighting and stairs with phosphorescent paint that glows in the dark. From Wordnik.com. [Life In The Bull's-Eye] Reference
The waiters were all Martian slaves, he noticed, their phosphorescent owl-eyes smoldering in the dim blue light. From Wordnik.com. [Security] Reference
Had any upright figure been standing there, the light would have made an unholy phosphorescent specter out of it. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
Makassar in a mantle of gloom, the surrounding sea becomes a vision of phosphorescent flame to the furthest horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
Ever nearer and nearer he circles, and in his wake, as it appears to Faust, trails a flickering phosphorescent gleam. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
Against the storm sky's ink blue, in hyper real focus phosphorescent radiance defines the hedge, pool house, wild rose. From Wordnik.com. [The Slender Scent] Reference
Darkness fell like a curtain; but the waters now gleamed like nether heavens with their own stars of phosphorescent light. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
The walls on all sides, made of half-digested cellulose, had rotted just enough through long years to be faintly phosphorescent. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
The phosphorescent gleam seemed to glide along flat on the surface of the sea, no light being visible in the air above the water. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
The stars also were reversed in their order, making, in the depths of the imaginary abyss, a sprinkling of tiny phosphorescent lights. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Not only was the red on white aesthetically striking (resembling dots of raspberry liqueur on a blanket of snow), it was phosphorescent. From Wordnik.com. [Tooth Decay] Reference
There were patches of light in the inner valley marking the phosphorescent plants, some creeping at ground level, others tall as saplings. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
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