corposants

Having picked up the pace a little, the two men strained every sense they possessed in search of assailants they could not see while Ahlitah continued to rage and destroy corposants that could not be made visible but that could bleed.

Carnivores of Light and Darkness Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

For there is always corpselight in the fields And corposants above the slaughterhouse, And at deep noon the shadowy vallenwoods Are bright at the topmost boughs.

Test of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1986

For there is always corpselight in the fields And corposants above the slaughterhouse, And at deep noon the shadowy vallenwoods Are bright at the topmost boughs.

Test Of The Twins Weis, Margaret 1986

He tells me of St. Elmo's fires, Marvell's _corposants_, though with him the original _corpos santos_ has suffered a sea change, and turned to _comepleasants_, pledges of fine weather.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) Various 1887

They were _corposants_, and whilst they conveyed to the skipper the only additional warning needed of the impending elemental strife, they also at once explained the mystery of the lights to leeward for which he was steering.

The Missing Merchantman Harry Collingwood 1886

Presently a bright star suddenly appears under the faintly gleaming corposants.

The Missing Merchantman Harry Collingwood 1886

I have heard sailors speak of those lights as witch-lights, death-gleams, and corposants, and their appearance is said always to foretell disaster.

Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess Harry Collingwood 1886

When at last we reluctantly desisted from our efforts, and were in the act of securing the lifebuoys once more, Bob cast his eyes aloft, and called my attention to the fact that the corposants had disappeared.

For Treasure Bound Harry Collingwood 1886

Blyth believed she certainly could not be more than a mile distant, his conviction being that the feeble, sickly lights of the ghostly corposants could not penetrate further than that distance in so thick an atmosphere, and it now became of the utmost importance -- nay, it might even be a matter of life or death for him -- to reach the stranger before the hurricane should burst upon them.

The Missing Merchantman Harry Collingwood 1886

They also were undoubtedly corposants glimmering from the spars of the strange sail of which he was in pursuit, and which, from her present proximity, must have been steering to the eastward, and consequently toward him, instead of to the westward and away from him, as he had feared.

The Missing Merchantman Harry Collingwood 1886