fox-fire

What the humans call fox-fire, and Romulans call devil-dogs.

THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK VONDA N.MCINTYRE 1990

Along during the morning I borrowed a sheet and a white shirt off of the clothes-line; and I found an old sack and put them in it, and we went down and got the fox-fire, and put that in too.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

AS soon as we reckoned everybody was asleep that night we went down the lightning-rod, and shut ourselves up in the lean-to, and got out our pile of fox-fire, and went to work.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

Are there passages which burn with real fire — not punk, fox-fire, make-believe?

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

There's a lot going on behind those fox-fire eyes of his.

The Soulforge Weis, Margaret 1998

They had framed an image of paste-board, in human shape, arrayed it in black, its eyes being formed of large pieces of what is vulgarly called _fox-fire_, [A] made into the likeness of human eyes, some material being placed in its mouth, around which was a piece of the thinnest scarlet tiffany, in order to make it appear of a flame colour.

Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson

Except -- I wonder if ever a firefly has hastened downward toward the strange glow which we sometimes see in the heart of decayed wood, -- mistaking a patch of fox-fire for the love-light of which he was in search!

The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

They said it _bugge_ or even _bwg_, but then they were more afraid of specters in those days than we, who imprison will-o'-the-wisps in Very lights, and rub fox-fire on our watch faces.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

Led by the fox-fire of restlessness, he must have tramped far, for the moon went down and curtains of fog began to draw in, obscuring hills and woods in a wet and blinding thickness.

The Tyranny of Weakness Charles Neville Buck 1904

Once the chestnut shied from a sudden strange shining point springing up in the darkness close at hand, which the country-bred horse discriminated as fox-fire, and kept steadily on, unmindful of the rotting log where it glowed.

The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886