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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 Madison J. Cawein

But Phosphor purrs like a windmill, like an electric car, like a tea-kettle, like a whole boiled dinner.

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

Pythagoras is said to have been the first to identify Hesperus with Phosphor, as the "Silver planet both of eve and morn," and by Plato the same fact is recognized.

From Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky by Edward Singleton Holden

Thou givest the word, and the westering Star, The Hesper who watched o'er Night's upspringing, Changing his course, shines eastward far, Phosphor now, for the Sun's inbringing.

From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin




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