Fire-fly

All were glad when they came in sight of Fire-fly Lake.

Guns and Snowshoes Or, the Winter Outing of the Young Hunters Ralph Bonehill

In warmer climates the Fire-fly, Lanthorn-fly, and many other insects, shine with much greater brilliance, and in these cases the glow seems to be a real love-light, like the lamp of Hero.

The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873

After the ceremony of the bridal gifts came the Fire-fly dance, in which light-torches gleamed out in vanishing spirals here and there, and over all the plain.

The Log School-House on the Columbia Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

"Ay, sir; and, if it was day, you might see him too -- at least, the best part of him -- his head, yonder -- making for the Fire-fly."

The Buccaneer A Tale S. C. Hall 1840

Now look, lads; here's a man-a-war, a heavy, sluggish thing, whose guns could take no effect on the Fire-fly, because their shot would go right over her, and only anger the waters.

The Buccaneer A Tale S. C. Hall 1840

"With all humility, your Highness, no: -- I would speak of Hugh Dalton and the Fire-fly."

The Buccaneer A Tale S. C. Hall 1840

With the common blindness of those who argue only on their own side of the question, he could not see why the Protector should object to the preservation of the Fire-fly; and he had hoped for

The Buccaneer A Tale S. C. Hall 1840

With my own good steed, and aided by only three on whom I could depend, I traced two of those leagued with Miles Syndercomb to their earth, at the very time when Hugh Dalton was lying in his Fire-fly off the coast.

The Buccaneer A Tale S. C. Hall 1840

He was ignorant of his mother's illness; but the information that Jack Roupall unwittingly communicated was not lost upon him; and he had earnestly scanned the waters, to see if the Fire-fly were off the coast.

The Buccaneer A Tale S. C. Hall 1840

Fire-fly disturbed his solitude in the purple chamber at Cecil Place, he directed immediate inquiry to be instituted as to its origin, and quickly ascertained that it was caused by the destruction of some ship at sea; his suspicions were at once directed to the vessel of the

The Buccaneer A Tale S. C. Hall 1840