glowworm

• In fact, the whole parish and neighbourhood resemble a combination of groves, interspersed with fields cultivated like gardens, and intersected with those green dry lanes which tempt the walker in all weathers, especially in the evenings, when in the short grass of the dry sandy banks lies every few yards a glowworm, and the nightingales are pouring forth their melody in every direction.” —  Crabbe
• He was not a church man; a man of good deeds rather than a man of faith, and goodness and sympathy beamed from him as naturally as light from the glowworm. —  Memoirs of a Southerner
• Having a grandeur or splendor superior to that to which the spectator is accustomed, as the ears of an ass, to a rabbit, or the glory of a glowworm, to a maggot. —  INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)
• Instantly every nearby glowworm winked out, leaving Conan in virtually complete darkness. —  Conan Of The Isles
• He went silently down the stairs and into the body of the church, dark, empty and vast, lit only by the glowworm lamps on the altars, minute stars in a vaulted night. —  The Potter's Field

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