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Значения термина glow worm на английском

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
Использование термина glow worm на английском
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They're under threat by spiders and a white fungus that attacks glow worm pupae.
Radio NZ
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The ceiling with its glow worm cages.
The windup girl
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Damn the light; a glow worm would be better. There was a pause; then he slapped his leg.
Keith of the Border: A Tale of the Plains
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We had everything when we opened except the Wairuru glow worm cave, which was opened two years later.
Radio NZ
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It is like a star, but when it appears upon the deck it resembles more a glow worm.
The Irish Times
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We emit them with the careless ease of a glow worm, and like the glow-worm ask for nothing in return.
My Discovery of England
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So night after night, for weeks, the three boys saw the twinkling light of the glow worm on the dewy grass.
The Pearl Box / Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for You...
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His description of the Battle of Waterloo is to "Ben-Hur's" chariot race what Mount Aetna in eruption is to a glow worm.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 01
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It was on the Glow Worm River at the Clip Claw Hills.
The Translation of a Savage, Volume 3
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The glow worms twist and writhe overhead, sending out phosphorescent mating light.
The windup girl
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They looked like two very luminous glow worms coming through the darkness.
The Complete Jack the Ripper
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Her body twitches and jerks in the light of glow worms.
The windup girl
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We used to get glow worms for our meat.
Radio NZ
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They were set in the face like little round glow worms in a mould of clay.
The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 2
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It's strange He never thought of glow worms!
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
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Projects include constructing a working hovercraft, cooking glow worms, molding dinosaur fossils, making electric Play-Doh and more.
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