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phosphorescence
in
The Secret Sharer
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Before I could form a guess a faint flash of phosphorescent light, which seemed to issue suddenly from the naked body of a man, flickered in the sleeping water with the elusive, silent play of summer lightning in a night sky.†
The phosphorescence flashed in the swirl of the water all about his limbs, his other hand seized the ladder.
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phosphorescence = dim glowing light
I stepped to the side swiftly, and on the shadowy water I could see nothing except a faint phosphorescent flash revealing the glassy smoothness of the sleeping surface.†
A phosphorescent flash passed under it.†

Definitions:

(1) (phosphorescence)
a soft, dim glow that comes either from a chemical reaction in a living thing or from something that keeps glowing after the light shining on it is gone
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)