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Pomp asked him of the sea’s lore, and he told us tales of sea-waifs in cradles of kelp, and the glowing corposants that crawl ship’s spars when guilty men keep crimes embosomed.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Presently a bright star suddenly appears under the faintly gleaming corposants.

From The Missing Merchantman by Overend, William Heysham

For miles round fierce flashes of lightning rent the vapor, and at a distance of fully forty miles ghostly corposants gleamed on the rigging of a vessel.

From The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire by Morris, Charles

He tells me of St. Elmo's fires, Marvell's corposants, though with him the original corpos santos has suffered a sea change, and turned to comepleasants, pledges of fine weather.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

And through the mist, all white and whist, Gaunt ships, with sea-weed wound, With rotting masts, upon whose spars The corposants lit spectre stars, Sailed by without a sound.

From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius