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.
Sometimes I tried to pierce the intense darkness that was only dispelled by the
phosphorescence caused by our movements.
A man floundered near me, in a splutter of
phosphorescence. I tried to help him, and in an instant he had me wildly round the neck.
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.
The doctor's voice could scarcely be heard by his companions; but they could see his countenance calm as ever even amid the flashing of the lightnings; he was watching the phenomena of
phosphorescence produced by the fires of St.
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.
As the sun went down, the gale freshened into an absolute hurricane, and the ocean beneath was clearly visible on account of its
phosphorescence. The wind was from the East all night, and gave us the brightest omen of success.
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.
I leaned over and watched the play of his feet, growing dim and dimmer, as they stirred the wan
phosphorescence into ghostly fires.
True, he had beheld shooting stars (this in reply to Bassett's contention); but likewise had he beheld the
phosphorescence of fungoid growths and rotten meat and fireflies on dark nights, and the flames of wood- fires and of blazing candle-nuts; yet what were flame and blaze and glow when they had flamed and blazed and glowed?
Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento -- Value of an Estancia -- Cattle, how counted -- Singular Breed of Oxen -- Perforated Pebbles -- Shepherd Dogs -- Horses broken-in, Gauchos riding -- Character of Inhabitants -- Rio Plata -- Flocks of Butterflies -- Aeronaut Spiders --
Phosphorescence of the Sea -- Port Desire -- Guanaco -- Port St.
The walls of the houses were wet, the mud of the roadway glistened with an effect of
phosphorescence, and when he emerged into the Strand out of a narrow street by the side of Charing Cross Station the genius of the locality assimilated him.