northern lights
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- The moon was bright on high; the blue firmament appeared to glow with an inherent brightness; the greater stars were burning in their spheres; the northern lights threw their mysterious glare far over the horizon; the few small clouds aloft were burdened with radiance; but the sky, with all its variety of light, was scarcely so brilliant as the earth. — Sketches and Studies
- Her eyes sparkled like a sky full of northern lights right outside his windscreen. — Chapter 1
- Right through the land of the midnight sun and the northern lights During the war they called it the "Road To Tokyo". — 161 - Fire And Ice
- Murals on the walls showing the ski races, reindeer, northern lights and such. — The Shipping News
- [139] There was the northern lights that night, so beautiful you couldn ;t believe it, these colored strings shooting out, it was like a web. — The Shipping News
- Death lay below if Doc Savage took a wrong trail and plunged over the edge An hour after midnight the northern lights appeared and lighted the bronze man's way The northern lights--the aurora borealis--appeared as a brilliant tapestry of bright reds and greens and yellows in the northern heavens. — 096 - Bequest of Evil
- She growled at him, and though he didn't look up to see her, he waved his left hand good-bye then turned to page two Chapter Twenty-Five The northern lights were shimmering in the dark gray sky as Superman flew past the Queen Elizabeth Islands and the Alpha Ridge to just north of the Fletcher Abyssal Plains. — Marv wolfman - Superman Returns
- Somewhere beyond the ice stairs he hoped to pick up the trail of some of his missing men Still the northern lights afforded the only illumination. — 040 - Haunted Ocean
- Ellis, in one of his northern voyages, asserts the opinion that the northern lights kindle and disperse the vapors requisite to the formation of lightning. — Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
- "I thought the story came out that the fireballs were natural phenomena, like static electricity popping off your finger after you scuff over a carpet, and the northern lights and things like that That's right," the Army man said, and grinned. — 152 - The Thing That Pursued