Portuguese
fogo-de-santelmo An electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere.
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I'm definitely corona free haha, she wrote on Instagram on September 1.
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But it would not take in the extreme limits of the corona.
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The only risk factor for corona is my age -I'm 71.
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Mercury continued to move out through the corona for another 30 minutes.
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I've been reading more dystopian fiction than ever during the corona crisis.
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His body was aglow with corposant.
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But couldn't that crackling hair have been nothing more than the electrical discharge that Keith called corposant, St Elmo's Fire?
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I looked, and saw a corposant, as it is called at sea,- aSt.Elmo's fire,-burningat the end of the crossjack-yard.
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I had seen a ship, and there she was to leeward of us, with the corposant clinging to one of her spars.
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Meanwhile, determined Paul flew hither and thither like the meteoric corposant-ball, which shiftingly dances on the tips and verges of ships' rigging in storms.
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I remembered the St. Elmo's fire that had flamed from the cracking plant.
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Caradoc was still explaining the theory of St. Elmo's fire to the listening men.
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The top of the skeletal cracking plant across the freeway glowed with St. Elmo's fire!
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Just then Caradoc's grave voice hazarded: That must be an extraordinary display of St. Elmo's fire.
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Hurry. The St. Elmo's fire was flickering wildly now, and popped every time he pronounced a hard consonant.
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The electric glow was surrealistic as they slowly drifted toward their rendezvous point.
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Look at the electric glow that comes from the third finger of Laura's left hand.
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At six o'clock day began to break, and with the dawn's early light, the narwhale's electric glow disappeared.
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His touch seemed to kindle in her an electric glow, and with something like alarm she withdrew her hand.
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He sat up in his sleeping bag and saw the cliff below him light up with an electric glow.
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In the electric glow from the overhead lamps, his propped forearm was taut and pale and wrapped with green veins.
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Vikki pressed the accelerator to the floor, the safe electric glow of the truck stop and diner disappearing behind her.
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But in this fluid setting traveled by the Nautilus, our electric glow was being generated in the very heart of the waves.
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From its glare and whiteness, I recognized the electric glow that had played around this underwater boat like some magnificent phosphorescent phenomenon.
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Someone had brought lanterns, their electric glow only making the deeper pools of shadow around us emphasize how large and empty the place was.
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Through a narrow hole aft the commander descends by a straight iron ladder into a misty region whose only light comes from electric glow-lamps.
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As she swayed, it seemed as if the motion and excitement caused every fiber of her body to flash out a sort of electric glow.
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"Not unlike the electric glow above a city, seen from a distance," said Barnett, as it grew plainer.
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"Hey," he called, coming into the living room, which was lit only by the pale electric glow of the TV.