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Significados de glow-worm em inglês

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A firefly belonging to the Lampyris noctiluca species.

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Examples for "glowworm"
Examples for "glowworm"
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Cap's cigarette shone like a glowworm in the shadow of the stack.
Stanford Stories: Tales of a Young University
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It formed a queer spectacle, a glowworm creeping up on a bonfire.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock
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But a glowworm that lived in the cave made it all too bright.
The City and the World and Other Stories
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The light at the nape of his neck made a glowworm of him.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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It was no good-like trying to write by the light of a glowworm.
I capture the castle
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These are the Lampyridae, to which the fireflies belong.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua
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The phosphorescent species of Lampyridae, the fireflies, so numerous in tropical America, are equally distasteful, and are also much mimicked by other insects.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua
Uso de glow-worm em inglês
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No, no; I've seen many a glow-worm and firefly-nothingof that sort.
Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners)
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Between those two Scotchmen he appeared like a glow-worm between two thistles.
What I Remember, Volume 2
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The glow-worm spark in my tinder grew dull and went out.
The Hidden Children
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The glow-worm was alight here and there, burning out into the great universe.
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
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I have even tried a glow-worm and it sounded like a bee buzzing.
Guy Garrick
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The glow-worm fight was waning too, but it was still there.
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
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The glow-worm light was waning too, but it was still there.
The Little White Bird; Or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens
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Some one pointed across the moor, to a light, faint as a glow-worm.
John Halifax, Gentleman
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Nothing like that, sir; a softer light, more like a glow-worm; but much brighter.
Brood of the Witch-Queen
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An alien glow-worm.... the 2015 Serpentine pavilion illuminated by night.
The Guardian
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Some animals, as the glow-worm, possess very peculiar phosphorescent qualities.
A Catechism of Familiar Things; / Their History, and the Events ...
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Or the secret of the glow-worm and firefly-lightwithout heat?
The Last Harvest
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It is greenish, still and pure, like a glow-worm's beacon.
Kimono
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Do you remember showing me my first glow-worm at Beauchastel?
Dynevor Terrace; Or, The Clue of Life — Volume 2
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But this enmity of the Count de Lille vanishes like a glow-worm in the darkness.
Marie Antoinette and Her Son
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Lance sang out; and the glow-worm waggled a welcome.
Far to Seek / A Romance of England and India