Definitions
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. a composition which burns with a brilliant blue flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at sea, and in military operations.
Examples
“Flip: A spear of blue light pierces the fallen angel.”
“Considering that Dante had literally punched his way into another world, transforming a tomb into a flame-embered doorway, and destroying a cemetery with a shock wave of blue light in the process—a fact she still struggled to wrap her mind around—Heather felt that created a gate was one hell of an inadequate description.”
“The ultraviolet blue light from the mercury lamp attracts but also dazzles the moths, so they seek out the shelter of the shadowy papier-mch egg-tray hollows and come to rest.”
“Pink and blue light strobed in alternating bands across his face.”
“In the glass door of the shop I saw my left hand vanish, replaced with an irregular globe of angry blue light that trailed bits of heatless fire to the floor.”
“Coils of blue light whipped around him, some lashing out into the night, others striking the yacht.”
“Behind them, the blue light from the flame-pits shone up from the crater and danced on the stone walls.”
Simon & Schuster: Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware
“Far below his feet, which kicked helplessly in midair, Jasper saw the weird blue light from the flame-pits of Vbngoom.”
Simon & Schuster: Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware
“Under the blue light shining from her wings, Angie opened the vial she had lost in the boat on Mercy Bay.”
“And before her plea had ended, a shaft of warm protective blue light fell across her, and she looked up from the mud to see Kai Opaka, as she had been when she was but a simple prylar, young and slender, come to New Sydney to raise funds to aid the resistance on Occupied Bajor.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blue light’.
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blue phrases/words
how blue is used
blue and white, blue apron, blue-aproned, blue-arsed fly, blue asbestos, blue ash, blue-assed fly, blue baby, blue-backed, blue bag, blue balls, blue band and 370 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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