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  • And it has three independent systems to make sure nothing short of a meteor strike can stop communication.†   (source)
  • I am headstrong and I wanted my girls to be able to see the Perseid meteor shower in the darkness of a campsite, so I chose to take them.†   (source)
  • It had come like a meteor falling from the sky.†   (source)
  • The time Jason and I watched a meteor shower on the dorm roof and I finally got the stupid guy to kiss me….†   (source)
  • Something had gone through his mind, flashing like a meteor, too quick, too bright to catch and hold.†   (source)
  • They are actually fragments of meteors penetrating the earth's atmosphere, burning up in their descent.†   (source)
  • Tonight the heavens are especially fertile and when we move onto wide sections of the river we can see a tracery of brilliant meteor trails weaving the stars together.†   (source)
  • The ball shot like a meteor above the field, flying deep into the surrounding forest.†   (source)
  • "I mean, you're like a meteor here.†   (source)
  • Sherman gasped so loud it made me look up in time to see the streak of a big blue meteor, yellow sparks flying from its head, coming out of the north, It flew silently across the sky and then fell behind a mountain.†   (source)
  • The logo signs shoot past her on A either side like meteors.†   (source)
  • More than once, I saved the planet from destruction by waving my wand at a crashing meteor.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, as if on cue, comets and meteor showers would tumble through the starry ranks, adding variation to the flowing dance.†   (source)
  • I read about meteors and a green bay and fierce tears and even though I don't understand all of it—the language is too old—I understand enough.†   (source)
  • =========================== There is a legend that the instant the Duke Leto Atreides died a meteor streaked across the skies above his ancestral palace on Caladan.†   (source)
  • A meteor hits your heart and changes everything forever.†   (source)
  • Eragon leaned his head against a tree and watched a meteor streak across the sky.†   (source)
  • There was everything I liked--chicharrones, fried chicken, tostones, sancocho, rice, fried cheese, yuca, avocado, potato salad, a meteor-sized hunk of pernil, even a tossed salad which I could do without--but when I joined the other kids around the serving table, Papi said, Oh no you don't, and took the paper plate out of my hand.†   (source)
  • Then, in the spring of 1934, horsemen started gathering by a fence at Riddle's breeding farm, gazing into a paddock and making the kind of awed noises that people make when a flaming meteor plunges out of the heavens and plows into someone's backyard.†   (source)
  • Slowly, by inches, he scooted his butt along the carpet until he was flat on his back, seeing the solar system behind a shower of white-hot meteors that cascaded across his field of vision.†   (source)
  • For many years it was as if the fifteen or so original houses had landed in the midst of an ancient site of a meteor crash.†   (source)
  • I fidgeted while we watched the shots of downtown and the expressways, eerily empty and looking post-meteor-hit-or-nuclear-war-like.†   (source)
  • It's like, what are the odds of a meteor hittin' this town?†   (source)
  • When the glass stopped falling, there was a hole in the ceiling, several feet wide, as if a meteor had crashed through it.†   (source)
  • He'd heard there was going to be a meteor shower, and after spreading out a blanket on the planks of the dock, they watched in silence as the lights streaked across the sky.†   (source)
  • A random event, most likely a meteor.†   (source)
  • Fame without honor, in her view, would be "like a faint meteor gliding through the sky, shedding only transient light."†   (source)
  • It has dinosaur skeletons, and a huge stuffed whale hanging from the ceiling, and meteors and diamonds.†   (source)
  • The apple was just ahead, plunging like a tiny meteor.†   (source)
  • Every time I stepped out of the house, I looked up, expecting to see a bomb or a meteor hurtling toward us.†   (source)
  • The initial meteor showers, quakes, and tsunamis only caused part of the damage.†   (source)
  • Do you take it seriously if somebody tells you that a meteor is going to destroy the earth?†   (source)
  • "I'll send postcards," Irene sang, looking smart in her new travel suit, and blowing them kisses as she and Ben left for Newark's Penn Station, where they'd board the Silver Meteor to Miami.†   (source)
  • The beginning of August saw a great meteor shower.†   (source)
  • He jumped to test his invention—he expected to fly—but instead he fell straight down, hitting the ground like a meteor and leaving a 5.†   (source)
  • Earthside news reported giant meteor in sub-Antarctic picked up by Capetown Spacetrack with projected impact that matched Mike's attempt perfectly—Mike called me to boast while taking down evening's Reuters transmission.†   (source)
  • In the forecourt was a deep crater, far deeper than the one that had been left outside the Weinberg Center in Paris, a meteor strike.†   (source)
  • Meteors do it all the time and there hasn't been anyone seriously injured since Tunguska.†   (source)
  • I'd seen one, a meteor.†   (source)
  • It could be a meteor.†   (source)
  • High above, a meteor thrust its shining spear through the dome of the sky.†   (source)
  • One night when she was checking the items on a grocery bill a thought shot into her mind, shining and winking like a meteor.†   (source)
  • Meteors broke fire above his head, and comets inscribed blazing arcs upon a vault of black glass.†   (source)
  • MacLain pleased her-the uncrowded water tank, catching the first and last light; the old iron bell in the churchyard looking as heavy as a fallen meteor.†   (source)
  • Derelict or meteor stray.†   (source)
  • The stars poured over his sight like flaming meteors.   (source)
    meteors = a rock from space burning in the earth's atmosphere
  • Him: Looks like it's going to be overcast tonight so no meteor shower.   (source)
    meteor = streaks of light in the night sky that result from a space rocks burning in the earth's atmosphere
  • There is a meteor shower Thursday night.   (source)
  • My primary interest is not the meteor shower.   (source)
  • There's not much moon tonight, so you could probably see five or ten meteors an hour.   (source)
  • Like, there is still a meteor shower.   (source)
  • THE MORNING OF THE METEOR SHOWER, I arrived at school with Harold and discovered a bright orange Volkswagen Beetle parked in my usual spot.   (source)
  • "So, over here in the northern sky is the constellation Draco," he said, "which to me looks more like a kite than a dragon, but anyway, there would be meteors visible around here."   (source)
  • The stars were so bright, Piper had been afraid they wouldn't be able to see the meteor shower.†   (source)
  • The sky was a great, star-splashed bowl above them, scarred by meteor trails.†   (source)
  • A shower of meteors crossed her patch of night.†   (source)
  • The million chipped facets of its glass head refract the light and make it look like a meteor.†   (source)
  • The stars and meteor trails paled to insignificance beside the sudden display.†   (source)
  • It looked like a meteor had hit the bridge.†   (source)
  • I was thinking about the night we were on the dock watching the meteor shower.†   (source)
  • The Perseids, a meteor shower that comes in August.†   (source)
  • Great waves of steam rose off her, as though the ki-rin were a meteor that had fallen to earth.†   (source)
  • But that does not rule out a meteor collision.†   (source)
  • They're speculating the damage was caused by meteor strikes."†   (source)
  • The surface, despite a meteor field, was pitted and worn.†   (source)
  • When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black.†   (source)
  • The next, all shattered to meteor precipitation.†   (source)
  • The next morning Angel kept saying, 'Man, can you believe that meteor shower?†   (source)
  • "We think this is our 'meteor,' " he said.†   (source)
  • Maybe there never was any meteor shower.†   (source)
  • I went looking for information on meteors when I was setting all this stuff up.†   (source)
  • We've brought the meteor in here to have a look at it under the light microscope.†   (source)
  • "Same place as your meteor shower," I said.†   (source)
  • The Rakasha dropped like a meteor back into the well.†   (source)
  • Jerked outa rockets like so many minnows hit by a meteor, by God!†   (source)
  • Only a meteor sliding down through Eridanus.†   (source)
  • They floated to rest between another Meteor and something that neither of them could identify.†   (source)
  • It's a very ug1y house," said Jean Morrel as the Meteor spiralled down.†   (source)
  • Paul thought this was akin to proving that meteors never struck the earth by showing five days when not a single one had hit Farmer John's north field, but he could understand the weight he argument would have carried with the jury just the same.†   (source)
  • But if you ever bring her back damaged again — and I don't care whose fault it is; I don't care if she merely trips, or if a meteor falls out of the sky and hits her in the head — if you return her to me in less than the perfect condition that I left her in, you will be running with three legs.†   (source)
  • He saw the aurora borealis, meteor showers over tumbling black waves, night skies so clear the stars seemed within reach, hung from a ceiling by fishing wire.†   (source)
  • She and a few of her undead sailors uncovered one of the two emergency rowboats while Scylla's heads rained from the sky like a meteor shower with teeth, picking off Confederate sailors one after another.†   (source)
  • In the picture of me and Annabeth fighting the Hydra, it looked like a meteor had made a crater in my head.†   (source)
  • No, not like a meteor, like a bomb.†   (source)
  • Ruth had envisioned the four of them holding hands and walking down to the Truckee River to watch the nightly meteor showers in quiet awe.†   (source)
  • "That is certainly true:" "What if the Titanic was hit by a meteor?" said Phoebe, whose latest obsession was outer space.†   (source)
  • Not a meteor falling from space.†   (source)
  • She did not actually believe that her laryngitis was star-crossed, or that the meteor shower had anything to do with her inability to speak.†   (source)
  • Jason took her hand—finally—and pointed as two meteors skipped across the atmosphere and formed a cross.†   (source)
  • The meteors seemed to her like a warning, like tiger stripes, like luminous grave slats clabbering her blood.†   (source)
  • The bronze Laocon wrestled with bronze snakes in the flickering illumination of the predawn meteor showers.†   (source)
  • But the meteors did not disappoint.†   (source)
  • I sit here under the darkening crag and I listen to the suddenly ominous moaning rising with the night wind from the Cleft and I pray as the sky lights with the blood-red streaks of meteor trails.†   (source)
  • Hyperion's small moon is not visible tonight but this world moves through more debris than is common for a planet so close to its sun and the night skies are illuminated by frequent meteor showers.†   (source)
  • I saw Billy blink and splutter, I saw the slickness on the Shrike's chiseled muzzle reflect the meteor-brightened sky, and then the dying embers of burned pages in Billy's still clenched fists ignited the kerosene.†   (source)
  • By the time the constellations emerged and the meteor trails began scarring the night sky, a brilliant display this far from all man-made light, the lanterns had been lit and dinner set out on the aft deck.†   (source)
  • I did pause long enough to glance up at the . lip of the Cleft three hundred meters above and to see that the clouds were gone, the stars were out, and the nightly ballet of meteor trails was bright against a sable sky.†   (source)
  • I walked back to our tent and its circle of biolumi-nescent lantern light as the first fusillade of meteor showers burned the skies overhead and distant explosions from the flame forests rippled along the southern and western horizons like cannon fire from some ancient war on pre-Hegira Old Earth.†   (source)
  • It was at the height of the autumn meteor season and Hyperion's night skies were already ablaze with gold streaks and red crisscrosses of flame when the seedship's engines fired, a small sun flared, and for an hour we watched as friends and fellow artists receded as a streak of fusion flame.†   (source)
  • Sitting on the balcony at Cicero's, it was all too easy to fall back into the rhythms of a former life; he would drink until the early morning hours, watch the predawn meteor showers as the clouds cleared, and then stagger to his empty apartment near the market, going into the consulate four hours later showered, shaved, and seemingly human except for the blood in his eyes and the insane ache in his skull.†   (source)
  • The wind music had ended and meteors were beginning their nightly show through cracks in low clouds when I heard a sound behind me and turned to find all seventy of the Three Score and Ten behind me.†   (source)
  • The one time she'd convinced him to be a rebel was back at the Wilderness School, when they had sneaked onto the roof at night to watch a meteor shower.†   (source)
  • I screamed as I dropped through the open air like a meteor, but it was a scream of exhilaration and not fear.†   (source)
  • Even at this remote view, one imagined men with buffalo-haunched arms shovelling black meteor falls of coal into the open boilers of the engine.†   (source)
  • To offer another analogy, this is like dispatching a crew of meteor watchers to Crater National Park because a huge asteroid struck there two million years ago.†   (source)
  • There was this one illustration of a meteor streaking across the sky over the heads of the triceratops.†   (source)
  • "It's a meteor shower.†   (source)
  • She felt nothing as she stared up at her father, whose face hovered against the dark sky like the moon: white, austere, pitted with black eyes like meteor craters.†   (source)
  • In all, twelve blazing bolts shot from theDragon Wing and pierced the ships and buildings along the bay like roaring, red-hot meteors from the heavens above.†   (source)
  • A meteor shower shot through the clear, like tracer bullets, and enhanced the depth of the sky by shining so close to earth.†   (source)
  • He jumped and stabbed in a fevered frenzy, Fighting the shadows massed before him…… The siege on Eragon's mind abated as Saphira and the red dragon crashed together, two incandescent meteors colliding head-on.†   (source)
  • Very dark, but there were stars—points of light and reason… And then you shot across my sky like a meteor.†   (source)
  • There stood Monsieur Guillotine, black tights, black long stockings, black hood over head, arms crossed over his chest, stiff straight by his chopping machine the blade high in the tent sky, a hungry knife all flashes and meteor shine, much desiring to cleave space.†   (source)
  • The shots rose like meteors, tracing fiery arcs high into the night sky until they disappeared from sight.†   (source)
  • Tears flew like meteors.†   (source)
  • How about a meteor?†   (source)
  • I kept on thinking that if I could miss a whole meteor shower, well, I'd probably done something else ridiculous.†   (source)
  • "I can't believe it," she said, "first Manny and Ramona, you remember, the friends I told you about that saw the meteor shower?†   (source)
  • Lou Ann was the one who read her horoscope every day, and mine, and Dwayne Ray's, and fretted that we would never know Turtle's true sign (which seemed to me the least of her worries), and was sworn to a strange kind of logic that said a man could leave his wife for missing a meteor shower or buying the wrong brand of cookies.†   (source)
  • Remember about the meteors?†   (source)
  • Tonight we should be glad we got across all that space without getting a meteor in our bulkhead or having one man of us die.†   (source)
  • Space fulla meteors.†   (source)
  • And then it fell, like a meteor, bursting into flame, all of its colors blazing and burning bright, as it grew and grew, beyond all belief that anything could live at that size, that pace, that magnificence…… Half spirit, half bird, legend darkening the sky.†   (source)
  • The ship of the Overlords came sliding in along its glowing meteor-trail through the heart of Carina.†   (source)
  • The great luminous fish suddenly flashed on all its lights in a frantic signal of alarm, and departed like a meteor Into the darkness of the abyss.†   (source)
  • It came from the storm-scarred flanks of the Andes, from the bodies of a billion living creatures, from the dust of meteors that had wandered through space for ages and had come at last to rest.†   (source)
  • The sky became a noisy and shocking black, streaked outward with a blaze of meteors.†   (source)
  • It was as if Scarret had heard a news flash announcing the impeachment of a President, the destruction of New York City by a meteor and the sinking of California into the Pacific Ocean.†   (source)
  • After the terrible hash — which, Father Kleinsorge later realized, reminded him of something he had read as a boy about a large meteor colliding with the earth — he had time (since he was 1,400 yards from the center) for one thought: A bomb has fallen directly on us.†   (source)
  • Then the fourth cylinder fell—a brilliant green meteor—as I learned afterwards, in Bushey Park.†   (source)
  • The sight of it flashed into the gulf of Hare's mind like a meteor into black night.†   (source)
  • I have felt it in the ocean; in the falling of a meteor.†   (source)
  • In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than a cloud, there is something of the meteor.†   (source)
  • At the moment when one expects it the least, God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament.†   (source)
  • Curious metal from meteors that failed in the sky; Earth-born the tireless is stretched by the water, quite weary, Close to this ununderstandable changeling that's I….†   (source)
  • …expected of Englishmen; that was the time when at the mast-heads of the three-deckers and seventy-fours moored in her own roadstead—a fleet, the right arm of a Power then all but the sole free conservative one of the Old World—the blue-jackets, to be numbered by thousands, ran up with huzzas the British colors with the union and cross wiped out; by that cancellation transmuting the flag of founded law and freedom defined, into the enemy's red meteor of unbridled and unbounded revolt.†   (source)
  • For a moment Archer stood watching, his gaze delighted by the flash of the red meteor against the snow; then he started after her, and they met, panting and laughing, at a wicket that led into the park.†   (source)
  • The stroll soon resolved itself into a tranquil session on a bench overhung with laurel and Banksian roses, from which they caught a dazzle of blue sea between marble balusters, and the fiery shafts of cactus-blossoms shooting meteor-like from the rock.†   (source)
  • In short, she was enclosed in a firmament of light, and of sharp hisses, resembling a sky-full of meteors close at hand.†   (source)
  • Mohegan threw the fastening of the youth's boat from the canoe, and with one stroke of his paddle sent the light bark over the water like a meteor.†   (source)
  • …of the Place, the vision which was moving in it, the disorder of that nocturnal assault, that hideous crowd, leaping like a cloud of frogs, half seen in the gloom, the croaking of that hoarse multitude, those few red torches running and crossing each other in the darkness like the meteors which streak the misty surfaces of marshes, this whole scene produced upon her the effect of a mysterious battle between the phantoms of the witches' sabbath and the stone monsters of the church.†   (source)
  • "Have as little to do with him at school as you can, my lad," he said to Tom; and the command was obeyed the more easily because Mr. Sterling by this time had two additional pupils; for though this gentleman's rise in the world was not of that meteor-like rapidity which the admirers of his extemporaneous eloquence had expected for a preacher whose voice demanded so wide a sphere, he had yet enough of growing prosperity to enable him to increase his expenditure in continued…†   (source)
  • He thought it a torch in some one's hand; next moment he thought it a meteor; the brilliance grew, however, until it became a star.†   (source)
  • Thought itself is not quicker than was the motion with which the latter profited by the advantage; he turned, gleamed like a meteor again before the eyes of Duncan, and, at the next moment, when the latter recovered his recollection, and gazed around in quest of the captive, he saw him quietly leaning against a small painted post, which stood before the door of the principal lodge.†   (source)
  • As often thro' the purple night, Below the starry clusters bright, Some bearded meteor, trailing light, Moves over still Shalott.†   (source)
  • The carriage rolled with a thundering noise over the pavement, and every one turned to notice the dazzling meteor.†   (source)
  • It was doubtless caused by one of those meteors, which the night-watcher may so often observe burning out to waste, in the vacant regions of the atmosphere.†   (source)
  • To borrow yesterday's paper from the Sol's Arms of an evening and read about the brilliant and distinguished meteors that are shooting across the fashionable sky in every direction is unspeakable consolation to him.†   (source)
  • Had the track of her next thought been marked by a streak in the air, like the path of a meteor, it would have shown a direction contrary to the heron's, and have descended to the eastward upon the roof of Clym's house.†   (source)
  • Accordingly, his reign was like the course of a brilliant and rapid meteor, which shoots along the face of Heaven, shedding around an unnecessary and portentous light, which is instantly swallowed up by universal darkness; his feats of chivalry furnishing themes for bards and minstrels, but affording none of those solid benefits to his country on which history loves to pause, and hold up as an example to posterity.†   (source)
  • The golden secretary darted through the room like a meteor with a dashing frenchwoman who carpeted the floor with her pink satin train.†   (source)
  • Some flew like radiant meteors round, lighted up the mighty circumference and displayed, as by a magician's wand, a sparkling glittering roof.†   (source)
  • The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols.†   (source)
  • Shine in meteor-sheen, Sylph!†   (source)
  • But for the precaution of our guide, our mangled bodies, torn and pounded into fragments, would have been carried afar like the ruins hurled along by some unknown meteor.†   (source)
  • She was in tears, and, strange as it was, in spite of the emotions he felt at the sight of these tears, he looked also at Madame de Villefort, and it appeared to him as if a slight gloomy smile had passed over her thin lips, like a meteor seen passing inauspiciously between two clouds in a stormy sky.†   (source)
  • Neither discharge, however, seemed to have taken effect, The whole scene had passed with a rapidity that confused the female, who was unconsciously rejoicing in the escape of the buck, as he rather darted like a meteor than ran across the road, when a sharp, quick sound struck her ear, quite different from the full, round reports of her father's gun, but still sufficiently distinct to be known as the concussion produced by firearms.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Railroads shall soon traverse all this country, and with a rattle and a glare the engine and train shall shoot like a meteor over the wide night-landscape, turning the moon paler; but as yet such things are non-existent in these parts, though not wholly unexpected.†   (source)
  • Yet, hast thou food which never satiates, now,— The restless, ruddy gold hast thou, That runs, quicksilver-like, one's fingers through,— A game whose winnings no man ever knew,— A maid that, even from my breast, Beckons my neighbor with her wanton glances, And Honor's godlike zest, The meteor that a moment dances,— Show me the fruits that, ere they're gathered, rot, And trees that daily with new leafage clothe them!†   (source)
  • Certainly, if the meteor kindled up the sky, and disclosed the earth, with an awfulness that admonished Hester Prynne and the clergyman of the day of judgment, then might Roger Chillingworth have passed with them for the arch-fiend, standing there with a smile and scowl, to claim his own.†   (source)
  • Not but the meteor may have shown itself at that point, burning duskily through a veil of cloud, but with no such shape as his guilty imagination gave it, or, at least, with so little definiteness, that another's guilt might have seen another symbol in it.†   (source)
  • …new to most of the inhabitants, and a clergyman of another denomination had previously occupied the field, by engaging the academy, the first Sunday after his arrival was allowed to pass in silence; but now that his rival had passed on, like a meteor filling the air with the light of his wisdom, Richard was empowered to give notice that "Public worship, after the forms of the Protestant Episcopal Church, would be held on the night before Christmas, in the long room of the academy in…†   (source)
  • Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with the peck of a swallow cracking its egg, and it places on one level the birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates.†   (source)
  • An hour had passed since the sun had set, when Franz fancied he saw, at a quarter of a mile to the left, a dark mass, but he could not precisely make out what it was, and fearing to excite the mirth of the sailors by mistaking a floating cloud for land, he remained silent; suddenly a great light appeared on the strand; land might resemble a cloud, but the fire was not a meteor.†   (source)
  • So vivid was the expression, or so intense the minister's perception of it, that it seemed still to remain painted on the darkness after the meteor had vanished, with an effect as if the street and all things else were at once annihilated.†   (source)
  • I was full of joy, the young heroes were round me and I walked through the night under the stars of the firmament, and one, a meteor of the stuff of Anu, fell down from heaven.†   (source)
  • Then Ninsun, who is well-beloved and wise, said to Gilgamesh, 'This star of heaven which descended like a meteor from the sky; which you tried to lift, but found too heavy, when you tried to move it it would not budge, and so you brought it to my feet; I made it for you, a goad and spur, and you were drawn as though to a woman.†   (source)
  • Year of comets and meteors transient and strange—lo! even here one equally transient and strange!†   (source)
  • Year of Meteors [1859-60 Year of meteors! brooding year!†   (source)
  • …and stately the Great Eastern swam up my bay, she was 600 feet long, Her moving swiftly surrounded by myriads of small craft I forget not to sing; Nor the comet that came unannounced out of the north flaring in heaven, Nor the strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting over our heads, (A moment, a moment long it sail'd its balls of unearthly light over our heads, Then departed, dropt in the night, and was gone;) Of such, and fitful as they, I sing—with gleams from them…†   (source)
  • As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be gone, what is this chant, What am I myself but one of your meteors?†   (source)
  • …old hills of Judaea with the beautiful gentle God by my side, Speeding through space, speeding through heaven and the stars, Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring, and the diameter of eighty thousand miles, Speeding with tail'd meteors, throwing fire-balls like the rest, Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly, Storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such…†   (source)
  • My lord, do you see these meteors? do you behold these exhalations?†   (source)
  • What observation mad'st thou in this case Of his heart's meteors tilting in his face?†   (source)
  • I miss'd the meteor once, and hit that woman; who cried out "Clubs!" when I might see from far some forty truncheoners draw to her succour, which were the hope o' the Strand, where she was quartered.†   (source)
  • I will stare him out of his wits; I will awe him with my cudgel; it shall hang like a meteor o'er the cuckold's horns.†   (source)
  • …or chattering of Birds: Sometimes in the Lineaments of the face; which was called Metoposcopy; or by Palmistry in the lines of the hand; in casuall words, called Omina: Sometimes in Monsters, or unusuall accidents; as Ecclipses, Comets, rare Meteors, Earthquakes, Inundations, uncouth Births, and the like, which they called Portenta and Ostenta, because they thought them to portend, or foreshew some great Calamity to come; Sometimes, in meer Lottery, as Crosse and Pile; counting holes…†   (source)
  • Saw you those meteors?†   (source)
  • By excluding men under thirty-five from the first office, and those under thirty from the second, it confines the electors to men of whom the people have had time to form a judgment, and with respect to whom they will not be liable to be deceived by those brilliant appearances of genius and patriotism, which, like transient meteors, sometimes mislead as well as dazzle.†   (source)
  • Man, but for that, no action could attend, And but for this, were active to no end: Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroyed.†   (source)
  • Yond light is not daylight, I know it, I: It is some meteor that the sun exhales To be to thee this night a torch-bearer And light thee on the way to Mantua: Therefore stay yet, thou need'st not to be gone.†   (source)
  • Portents and prodigies their souls amaz'd; But most, when this stupendous pile was rais'd: Then flaming meteors, hung in air, were seen, And thunders rattled thro' a sky serene.†   (source)
  • What say you to't? will you again unknit This churlish knot of all-abhorred war, And move in that obedient orb again Where you did give a fair and natural light; And be no more an exhaled meteor, A prodigy of fear, and a portent Of broached mischief to the unborn times?†   (source)
  • Chaf'd by the speed, it fir'd; and, as it flew, A trail of following flames ascending drew: Kindling they mount, and mark the shiny way; Across the skies as falling meteors play, And vanish into wind, or in a blaze decay.†   (source)
  • No more the thirsty entrance of this soil Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood; No more shall trenching war channel her fields, Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes, Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven, All of one nature, of one substance bred, Did lately meet in the intestine shock And furious close of civil butchery, Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks, March all one way, and be no more opposed Against…†   (source)
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