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Definition of Glowworms
1. glowworm [n] - See also: glowworm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glowworms
Literary usage of Glowworms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"... And where the sleepy cowslip sheltered grows ; Whilst now a paler hue the
foxglove takes, When scattered glowworms, but in twilight fine, Shew trivial ..."
2. Festus: A Poem by Philip James Bailey (1862)
"... Wandering amid the words of love there traced, Like glowworms among beds of
flowers. He seemed To bear with being but because she ..."
3. There and Back Again in Search of Beauty by James Augustus St. John (1853)
"The snow, already above our knees, was still falling thick; and the lanterns, as
the girls scrambled on before me, looked like two huge glowworms traversing ..."
4. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"And shaking the glowworms from the leaf he ranged them with a trembling hand in a
... It happened to be that season of the year at which glowworms put forth ..."
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