单词 | corposant |
例句 | Pomp asked him of the sea’s lore, and he told us tales of sea-waifs in cradles of kelp, and the glowing corposants that crawl ship’s spars when guilty men keep crimes embosomed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z And through the mist, all white and whist, Gaunt ships, with sea-weed wound, With rotting masts, upon whose spars The corposants lit spectre stars, Sailed by without a sound. Weeds by the Wall Verses I have heard sailors speak of those lights as witch-lights, death-gleams, and corposants, and their appearance is said always to foretell disaster. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess They had played around him as the corposant flickers around the mast-head of a ship.... The Wind Bloweth Everybody knows nowadays that a corposant is nothing whatever but an electrical phenomenon, and therefore merely an indication that the atmosphere is surcharged with electricity. The Log of a Privateersman Presently a bright star suddenly appears under the faintly gleaming corposants. The Missing Merchantman For you Are too much lit to mark a corposant. Emblems Of Love There was fever between the decks; there was fever in black hearts; of dark nights a corposant burned now at this masthead, now at that. Sir Mortimer His vivid sense of beauty even hovers sometimes like a corposant over the somewhat stiff lines of his Latin prose. Among My Books Second Series I had seen a ship, and there she was to leeward of us, with the corposant clinging to one of her spars. The Log of a Privateersman For miles round fierce flashes of lightning rent the vapor, and at a distance of fully forty miles ghostly corposants gleamed on the rigging of a vessel. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire |
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