"Luminescent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... waving, rubbery tentacles, multiplied a millionfold, that performed the duties of leaves. Water gurgled and chuckled everywhere, spread in vast dim ponds and lakes writhing with tormented roots, up-heaved by unseen, uncatalogued leviathans, rippled by translucent discs of loathsome, luminescent jelly that quivered from place to place in ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 • Various
... himself manages his lighting apparatus, extinguishing and rekindling it at will; but there is one point at which the voluntary agency of the insect is without effect. I detach a strip of the epidermis showing one of the luminescent sheets and place it in a glass tube, which I close with a plug of damp wadding, to avoid an over-rapid evaporation. Well, this scrap of carcass shines away merrily, although not quite as brilliantly as ...
— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre
... a tall, bored-looking man in a silver-gray uniform with gleaming luminescent bands across the sleeves, standing on a raised ...
— Starman's Quest • Robert Silverberg |
