fire-flies

Every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination… The fire-flies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him…

The Haunted Jessica Verday 2010

The little jewels stitched to her gauzy dress twinkled like fire-flies as she moved.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

And yet, because they were in his head, and you couldn't see into his head, even when it was dark, they didn't know his head was full of fire-flies.

Peace-keeping (Valentine's Day Massacre Theme) 2010

The coast-road whence Camoglia is descried so far below, is famous, in the warm season, especially in some parts near Genoa, for fire-flies.

Pictures from Italy 2007

Also, it was kind of beautiful and romantic because the night was full of fire-flies, like lightning bugs.

Buzzine » Josh Hartnett 2007

Under Capricorn, two negro lovers, daring the wild beasts and evil spirits, for love of one another, crouched together in a cane brake where the fire-flies hovered.

The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006

Between the walls, like rhythmic flashing of fire-flies, pulsed soft and fugitive glimmerings that carried a sense of the infinitely minute — of electrons, it came to me, rather than atoms.

The Metal Monster 2004

Their hair streamed behind them, mingled, silken web of brown and shining veil of red-gold; little clouds of sparkling corpuscles threaded them, like flitting swarms of fire-flies; their bodies were nimbused with tiny, flickering tongues of lavender flame.

The Metal Monster 2004

The top arc of its prostrate base reached a thousand feet or more up the precipitous wall; above it all was hidden in sparkling nebulosities that were like still clouds of greenly glimmering fire-flies.

The Metal Monster 2004

The green twilight deepened; great fire-flies began to flash lanterns of pale topaz through the flowering trees; a little breeze stole over the fern brakes, laden with the fragrances of the far forest.

Dwellers in the Mirage 2004