Both Uses of
meteor
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- In short, she was enclosed in a firmament of light, and of sharp hisses, resembling a sky-full of meteors close at hand.†
Chpt 28-30 *
- He had not minded the peculiarities of his birth, the vicissitudes of his life, the meteor-like uncertainty of all that related to him, because these appertained to the hero of his story, without whom there would have been no story at all for him; and it seemed to be only in the nature of things that matters would right themselves at some proper date and wind up well.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(meteor) a streak of light in the night sky that results from a space rock burning in the earth's atmosphere
or:
a meteoroid: a small space rock that hit the earth's atmosphere
or:
a meteorite: a stony or metallic object that is the remains of a meteoroid that reached the earth's surface