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Significados de glowworm em inglês

A firefly belonging to the Lampyris noctiluca species.

Uso de glowworm em inglês
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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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The facets of the crystals crawled with intense glowworm stars, drawing luminous threads behind.
Halo Primordium
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He saw the grass-lined pit, the pulsing glowworm, the hard-packed mica, the captive cricket.
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?
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Herger said: Tonight, the glowworm dragon will attack again.
Eaters of the Dead
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Here and there a spark fell upon the path before him, looking like a glowworm.
Dame Care
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He said to me, "The glowworm dragon, which swoops down through the air."
Eaters of the Dead
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It wavered in patches, it seemed to stir and creep like the light of a glowworm.
Youth, a Narrative
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I threw it over to the burial-ground: and that soft Jenkins took it for a glowworm.
The Channings: A Story
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The glowworm is also frequently seen, even as late as September, on mild, warm, dewy nights.
The Backwoods of Canada / Being Letters from the Wife of an Emig...
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And knew the glowworm by his spark:
The Illustrated London Reading Book
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It was assisted by two glowworm lamps, that, in little marble reservoirs, stood on the opposite chimney-piece.
The Friendships of Women
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I thought I saw a glowworm, and I stopped to look; but I couldn't see it again.
The Channings: A Story
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