Bengal light

British  

noun

1. a firework or flare that burns with a steady bright blue light, formerly used as a signal

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Example Sentences

Denis did not dance, but when ragtime came squirting out of the pianola in gushes of treacle and hot perfume, in jets of Bengal light, then things began to dance inside him.

From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous

The next moment a Bengal light illuminated the pier, and the lifeboat was silhouetted with strange effectiveness against the storm.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

Some one in front of them ignited a Bengal light and threw it into the air; the flame flashed across Nancy's features, and fell upon the hat of a man near her.

From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George

Then, as if making some calculation, moved his lips; every one of these stones became changed into a sparkling number, and dazzling as if in a Bengal light, a noble sum flashed before him.

From Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von

Then the schooner increased her speed, the flare from the Bengal light died out, and soon the Peacock was lost to view in the darkness.

From The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes Or, the secret of the island cave by Stratemeyer, Edward