How To Use corposant In A Sentence
- The most stunning demonstration of its unearthly spell occurs late in Pequod's ill-fated voyage, when the ship is illuminated by an eerie outburst of corposants in the midst of a violent squall.
- During a typhoon in the Sea of Japan, the ship is torn of her canvas and the masts come aglow with the corposants, St Elmo's Fire, a source of deep superstition to sailors, who believed them to be a portentious omen, ‘God's burning finger… laid upon the ship’.
- I looked, and saw a corposant, as it is called at sea, -- a St. Elmo's fire, -- burning at the end of the crossjack-yard. Stories by English Authors: the Sea
- The next year, Samir hit the word corposant which refers to an electrical phenomenon and he shocked the crowd by finishing 27th. CNN Transcript May 31, 2007
- We were off the yard in good season, for it is held a fatal sign to have the pale light of the corposant thrown upon ones face. Chapter XXXIV. Narrow Escapes-The Equator-Tropical Squalls-A Thunder Storm
- When we got down we found all hands looking aloft, and there, directly over where we had been standing, upon the main top-gallant-mast-head, was a ball of light, which the sailors name a corposant (corpus sancti), and which the mate had called out to us to look at. Chapter XXXIV. Narrow Escapes-The Equator-Tropical Squalls-A Thunder Storm
- Gaggii kept chanting until he was surrounded by a half circle of bobbing, corposant shapes, each yellow or red-orange, each an individually expressive nimbus. Cyber Way
- When we got down we found all hands looking aloft, and there, directly over where we had been standing, upon the main top-gallant mast-head, was a ball of light, which the sailors call a corposant Two Years Before the Mast
- It was a bronze statue, Greek or Roman, of a torchbearer whose branch flared with sudden cold corposant fire. Operation Luna
- Everybody knows nowadays that a corposant is nothing whatever but an electrical phenomenon, and therefore merely an indication that the atmosphere is surcharged with electricity.
