St. Elmo

It begins in a ghost town called St. Elmo, which is really nothing more than two dozen dilapidated wooden buildings nestled in Colorado's Sawatch Mountains.

Literary Mama: Literary Mama Home Erin White 2010

Then to pitch it as a comedy/drama series and focus it around a Bar and Grill called St. Elmo's?

Filmstalker: St. Elmo's Fire the series 2009

But on rare occasions, when strong electrical current is present, the tips of the poles glow with a hot ionized gas known as St. Elmo's fire.

Lightning Takes a Holiday 2004

For several nights the so-called St. Elmo's fire had been seen darting tongues of flame from the tops of the towers to the gleaming stars of heaven.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Various

St. Elmo, which is equivalent to stating that in them also was discovered the last limit of heroism.

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

Popularly known as St. Elmo, b. in 1190 at Astorga, Spain; d.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Unlike the common sinners and punishers of the rest of the play, these Heroes find their "glory" in saving men from peril and suffering, especially at sea, where they appear as the globes of light, called St. Elmo's fire, upon masts and yards.

The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse 480? BC-406 BC Euripides 1911

What the sailors call St. Elmo's fire -- a brush of electric light from the mast tops and other projections of the ship -- indicates the passage of electrical energy between the vessel and the atmosphere.

Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873

Some days afterwards, in another gale, between two snow-showers, I saw that rare electric phenomenon called St. Elmo's fire -- jets of electric fire appearing at the points of all the ship's masts and yards.

Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville Prince De Joinville 1859

As I sat here and read this article its really amazing to think of this effect that many have called St. Elmo's Fire for years being named something different based on what you have seen and experienced with the MEN that you are surrounded by each day.

Michael Yon - Online Magazine 2009