Citations:seafire

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English citations of seafire and sea-fire

compare milky sea, mareel
1872 1907 1919 2010 2014
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  • 1872, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Bombay Branch, Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, page 130:
    In the meantime the disc of the sun glowed on the top of the western mountain, so that one might have asked: "Is this a large spark from the seafire? is this the new splendid jewel which the Lady of the Regent of the West has put on her forehead? "
  • 1907, William Clark Russell, What Cheer!, page 194:
    It was a very quiet night, moonless, rather dark, but all the lamps of heaven were glowing, and they trembled a sheen The phantom sailor, who kindles the yard-arm lamp; the strange and beautiful woman, who glows in sea-fire alongside;  
  • 1919 06, “Boys' Life”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 54:
    Then it shallowed to two and the oars churned up seafire all about us.
  • 2010 December 1, Kathryne Kennedy, Beneath the Thirteen Moons, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 131:
    wore covered him like a second skin, and the glow of the seafire shells revealed physical proof of his desire for her, and... “Caria?” she called weakly. A feminine giggle responded, but not her sister's. A narrow-fingered hand, 
  • 2014 December 16, Gina Welborn, Masterpiece Marriage, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
    "Prince Ercole likes telling stories of Italian seafarers, both enraptured and frightened by the sea turning milk white in a ship's wake and glowing as if from within. They call it sea-fire."