This, quickly spreading out across the sky, rendered the night so dark that, beyond the ghostly reflections from the binnacle lamps, nothing was visible save the phosphorescent crests of the rapidly rising seas.
The surf broke uproariously along the shore in bursts of phosphorescent flame, and in its pauses the barbaric cadences of himines and hulas floated out to us across the star-paved surface of the bay.
Perhaps there is no more impressive ocean-scene ever beheld by the sailor," said Captain Ben Roberts, "than the phosphorescent seas witnessed at times in the tropics.
The sea was alive with phosphorescent animalculae; the wake of the boat was a broad belt of light behind us, every ripple sparkled and shone, and the water that dripped from the oars looked like molten silver.
I saw him raise his arm and deliver a harpoon with amazing dexterity; at the same instant I had seen also the white tusk and phosphorescent eyes of a walrus appear for a moment in the black water and then sink.
I saw its long, white, spiral, ivory tusk and two phosphorescent eyes.
Unfortunately the method of observation was always founded on the variations in visibility of the spark or of a phosphorescent substance, and it soon became manifest that these variations were not perceptible to all eyes.
But, as he scanned the surface of the lagoon, there was a phosphorescent flash several fathoms out.
There was no moon, and a velvety blackness stretched about the ship on every side, broken here and there by a faint phosphorescent gleam as a wave reared and broke.
Just then the lambent flashing of the phosphorescent water and the soft splashing ceased.
This was what was wanted, for with a phosphorescent sea, every dip of the oar, every wavelet which broke against the boat, would have served as signal to warn the watch on board the gunboat that enemies were near.
Perhaps due to the reaction after the excitement, the lads ceased to chat together, and leaned over the bows, alternately watching the phosphorescentsea and the horizon above which the stars appeared dim and few.
The positive electrode, B, is on the bottom of the tube under the phosphorescent material; the negative, A, is on the upper part of the tube.
M), with two negative electrodes, AA', so placed as to protect two luminous spots on the phosphorescent glass of the tube.
The lucifer was barely equal to its duties, and half-a-dozen times it gave its feeble spark of phosphorescent light in vain; but at last it struck, and the blue and yellow sulphur bubbled and crackled into flame.
Then he struck the match, which emitted a faint phosphorescent glow, and went dark again.
The wheel and the heaps of coiled rope beyond rose and fell with the motion of the vessel, now against the stars, now black against the phosphorescent foam that trailed along the sea like shining lace.
For a minute or two they leaned over the bulwarks and watched the phosphorescent foam in silence.
And so, at last, the darkness came, a starry darkness of soft blue shadows and phosphorescent sea out of which the hills of the Cyclades rose faint as pictures of floating smoke a wind might waft away like flowers to the sky.
Its intensification tubes were glowing in a dim phosphorescent row on a nearby bracket.
With a prayer for Glora trembling on his lips, Alan plunged into the dimphosphorescent gloom of the tunnel.
Footprints formed in the soft ground all around him, and the air was filled with spots of phosphorescent light that coincided with the relative positions of the brains, hearts, and eyes of human beings.
It flew off with a humming insect sound, and as it did so it showed the brilliant phosphorescent glow they had observed.
Dropping their loads, Bearwarden and Ayrault threw themselves upon the monster with their hunting-knives with such vim that in a few seconds it beat a hasty retreat, leaving, as it did so, a wake of phosphorescent light.
Exactly at midnight a faint phosphorescent light, like that of a glow-worm, appeared in the region of Greenland on the planet they had left.
Then there are great phosphorescent areas, and the colour of the surface changes with every hour of the day, from the most brilliant crimson to the softest shade of blue, radiant with many colours that your eyes cannot now see.
In this deeper part of the ocean some of the fishes had a phosphorescent light of their own, and these could be seen far ahead, as if they were lanterns.
Their way was now lighted by small phosphorescent creatures scattered about the sea gardens and which Merla informed them were hyalaea, or sea glowworms.
The great gray lake was a flock of sheep and thephosphorescent specks were their eyes.
It or one of its compounds is mixed with a phosphorescent substance such as zinc sulphide and the latter glows continuously.
It emitted a brilliant phosphorescentglow and when it splashed on the feet of the earth-men it felt cold, but it glowed for a long time.
If the ceiling of a coal-mine was lined with glowing fireflies or with phosphorescent material excited in some manner, it would be possible to see fairly well with the dark-adapted eyes.
For example, assume that phosphorescent zinc sulphide is excited by the light from a mercury-arc.
If ultra-violet radiation is allowed to impinge upon a phosphorescent material, it will glow with a considerable brightness but will be cool to the touch.
Assuming that a known amount of radiant energy of a certain wave-length has been permitted to fall upon the phosphorescent material, then in the dark the latter may be seen to glow for a long time.
The beast in question was squatting at that moment on its haunches, like a great dog, with its face full towards him, and its phosphorescent eyes shining like lamps.
All night long the forest resounded with the roaring, trumpeting, and other strange cries of wild beasts, while round their fires they could see at times an outer circle of flaming phosphorescent eyes.
Its body swelled and shrank alternately, with every swelling giving out a phosphorescent glow, with every contraction darkening to a faint red color.
Often in the jungle, when slightly preparing the ground for erecting the tent, phosphorescent lights from decayed vegetable matter shone in innumerable spots, as if a powerful lamp were throwing its light through a grating.
Bertha, who till then had sat in the bows absorbed in thought, watching the waves as they parted at the prow of the little vessel and floated away in two phosphorescent furrows,--Bertha now climbed on a coil of rope to examine the horizon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phosphorescent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: light; luminous; photogenic; radiant
