Algae, it was noted, could also glow phosphorescently. From Wordnik.com. [The Taste of Coins from Treasure Troves] Reference
His fingernails glow phosphorescently white in the evening. From Wordnik.com. [So Much Staying Alive] Reference
His skin shone phosphorescently, and his hair was plastered across his forehead. From Wordnik.com. [In This Way I Was Saved] Reference
Zouave corps, brilliant in crimson and gold, sprang up, phosphorescently, in his wake, making bright the track of his journey. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
They traversed a long, dark, vaulted corridor in which, Conan noticed uneasily, the skull on the staff glowed phosphorescently. From Wordnik.com. [The Hour of the Dragon]
Down on the floor there was a dragging, scuffling sound, and from almost beneath me a pair of small red eyes peered up phosphorescently. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Her Callistan vexto-silk gown, of the newest and most violent shade of "radioactive" green, was phosphorescently luminous; fluorescent; gleaming and glowing. From Wordnik.com. [First Lensman]
Dombey, exulting in the long – looked – for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch – chain that depended from below his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phosphorescently in the feeble rays of the distant fire. From Wordnik.com. [Dombey and Son] Reference
That bright T was even farther round on our starboard side now, but directly in line with us and the patch of dark water to the west of the almost phosphorescently foaming whiteness that marked the point where the flood tide ripped past the outer end of the eastern breakwater. From Wordnik.com. [When Eight Bells Toll]
The roof presented an inscrutable blackness, save where small rifts in the shingles glowed phosphorescently. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Regiment] Reference
Dombey, exulting in the long-looked-for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch-chain that depended from below his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phosphorescently in the feeble rays of the distant fire. From Wordnik.com. [Dombey and Son] Reference
It shone also with its own light, so that this shadow was not hard or black, but it shone phosphorescently and with a diminishing intensity where the stimulus of the sun’s rays was withdrawn. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days of the Comet] Reference
Whose orbs glint phosphorescently at me. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Brown] Reference
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