glowworm

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With the nightmares of Hitler, Mussolini and the Iron Curtain still years in the future, Churchill mined his youth to position himself as one of history’s glowworms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

We set sail under a cotton-candy sky to watch a spectacle with a Grimm’s fairy tale twist — the mating of the glowworms in Turks and Caicos.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2016

“Good. Most glowworms are alive. I will buy again” said one reviewer.

From Time • Sep. 22, 2016

More than the staggeringly self-absorbed British pop star, the wistful giant, the Greeks bickering inside the Trojan horse or the baby floating in utero, the glowworms got me.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2016

The first lights were coming on in the houses on the bank, looking like glowworms or fallen stars.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke