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Phosphor

[fos-fer, -fawr] / ˈfɒs fər, -fɔr /
NOUN
morning star
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Furthermore, one of the mobile developers in the Partners programme, Phosphor Games, is creating an action fantasy title named Horn, clearly aimed at the dedicated gaming audience.

From The Guardian • Aug. 2, 2012

The sun set late; but hardly had he gone When o'er the moon's gold-litten crescent there, Clean Phosphor, polished as a precious stone, Pulsed in fair deeps of air.

From Blooms of the Berry by Cawein, Madison J.

Phosphor is, however, a mighty hunter: mice, rats by the score, chipmunks,—all is game that comes to his net.

From Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others by Winslow, Helen M.

Phosphorus is known to enter into the composition of the human brain, and a trenchant German writer has exclaimed, 'Ohne Phosphor, kein Gedanke!'

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

The ancients called it Lucifer and Phosphor when it shone as a morning star before sunrise, and Hesperus and Vesper when it became visible after sunset.

From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel




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