fox-fire
- a variation of foxfire.
Example Sentences
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I smiled at the fox-fire glow of his small, beady, red eyes.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
They looked like fire-flies dancing among the boughs, and indeed they were encaged fire-flies, or bits of fox-fire from decayed stumps.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher
Led by the fox-fire of restlessness, he must have tramped far, for the moon went down and curtains of fog began to draw in, obscuring hills and woods in a wet and blinding thickness.
From The Tyranny of Weakness by Stahr, Paul
The curtain door of the chamber was rent aside, and Sergeant True bearing aloft his fox-fire torch entered.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher
Hawthorne in one of his books records a remarkable personal encounter with this weird fox-fire, and one which cost him dearly.
From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton)
