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  • The rest of our family and friends are asteroids and comets floating around the planets orbiting the Sun.†   (source)
  • I got dust rags and Comet cleanser in case I needed them.†   (source)
  • Rockets shooting, fireballs bursting, comets shrieking, sparks sizzling.†   (source)
  • Basically, we're moving through dust left behind by this comet called Giacobini-Zinner, and it would be super beautiful and romantic if only we did not live in gloomy Indiana."†   (source)
  • Did you really see the Comet of 1812?†   (source)
  • Her eyes burned, bright as a comet in the night's sky.†   (source)
  • Newton's tomb was covered with orbs—stars, comets, planets.†   (source)
  • It did one circuit of the stadium, then split into two smaller comets, each hurtling toward the goal posts.†   (source)
  • I hear that excitement is the master of the hour, that you fling yourself through these dominions like a comet across the firmament.†   (source)
  • In a paper bag, Aziza packed these things: her flowered shirt and her lone pair of socks, her mismatched wool gloves, an old, pumpkin-colored blanket dotted with stars and comets, a splintered plastic cup, a banana, her set of dice-†   (source)
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  • First she dragged George to the first class library so she could check out a book on Halley's comet.†   (source)
  • Stars, comets, planets, flashed across the sky, and then the earth came into view again, the darkened earth, closer, closer, till it filled the globe, and they had somehow gone through the darkness until the soft white of clouds and the gentle outline of continents shone clearly.†   (source)
  • Here's a woman who had survived the centrifuge, the vomit comet, hard-landing drills and 10k runs.†   (source)
  • Transports blaze along the lowest tier of the Bridge, their headlamps like red and white comets cutting through the night.†   (source)
  • Klaus had been about eight, and he remembered how interested he had been in comets, reading all the astronomy books his parents had in their library.†   (source)
  • The maester was peering through his big Myrish lens tube, measuring shadows and noting the position of the comet that hung low in the morning sky.†   (source)
  • I searched the skies for flaming comets, for that was how I pictured a cannonball would look.†   (source)
  • I sped through the dark like a comet.†   (source)
  • The buggers had already beaten the main human fleet out in the comet shield, wiping out the earliest starships and making a mockery of human attempts at high strategy—that film was often shown, to arouse again and again the agony and terror of bugger victory.†   (source)
  • Comet means a rare calamity will happen.†   (source)
  • An Ouster migration cluster might consist of ships ranging in size from single-person ramscouts to can cities and comet forts holding tens of thousands of the interstellar barbarians.†   (source)
  • They were horrendous—a thick mass of them on her head, a swarm trailing back like a comet's tail as she flew through the air.†   (source)
  • All around the words were comets and stars, moons and suns, scattered across a light purple background.†   (source)
  • For Dora Root life with John had been like living upon a comet.†   (source)
  • She goes back into the Hong Kong franchise, a nebula of aromatic freshness trailing behind her like the tail of a comet.†   (source)
  • In May of 2000, three teenage employees at a Burger King in Scottsville, New York, were arrested for putting spit, urine, and cleaning products such as Easy-Off Oven Cleaner and Comet with Bleach into the food.†   (source)
  • We could chase it down, maybe find out it come from a giant comet turd landin' in his backyard or somethin'.†   (source)
  • As they got closer, they sent fiery comets and bolts of lightning toward the pyramid; but each blast dissipated harmlessly against its stone slopes, consumed in the red haze of Set's power.†   (source)
  • Comets, violins, parades, loneliness, clouds, beards, bigots, lists, flags, earthquakes, despair were all swept up in a scrambled swirling.†   (source)
  • Everyone calls it "the Vomit Comet," even though NASA refers to it as "The Weightless Wonder," a public-relations gesture aimed at distracting attention from the obvious.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, as if on cue, comets and meteor showers would tumble through the starry ranks, adding variation to the flowing dance.†   (source)
  • Three of us had giant camping flashlights, the glow illuminating jarring images: It was suburbia, post-comet, post-zombie, post-humanity.†   (source)
  • He'd never grown immune to the comet tail of double takes and curious glances he dragged behind him, but tonight it felt unbearable.†   (source)
  • A big old comet or a chunk of the moon could come crashing down through the roof just now and fall on top of your head.†   (source)
  • At the rear of the grotesque procession trudged a comet's tail of inhabitants from Dras-Leona: nobles, merchants, tradesmen, several high-ranking military commanders, and a motley collection of those less fortunate, such as laborers, beggars, and common foot soldiers.†   (source)
  • This was nothing like the times before, when his touch had left a track like a comet over her skin; when she found herself aching after she told him she wanted to stop.†   (source)
  • Still Charles Halloway did not look down at the grille but only at the small comets of splashed red colour left on the sidewalk, trailed around the corner, dropped from the clenched hands of the vanished Mr Dark.†   (source)
  • In my final year at Healdtown, an event occurred that for me was like a comet streaking across the night sky.†   (source)
  • We sat and drank and finally talked, two strangers reliving an event--a whirlwind, a comet, a war--we'd both seen but from different faraway angles.†   (source)
  • I look under the sink and find a dried-out Brillo pad and a can of Comet.†   (source)
  • Above the jukebox was a picture of Bill Haley & His Comets.†   (source)
  • He did not pay any attention because he was listening to the forming of the troops, the sound of the comets, and the voices of command that were shattering the dawn.†   (source)
  • I didn't have to fight long; though I was running faster than I ever had before, shooting like a comet through the straightest path I could find in the trees; Edward caught up with me after a short minute.†   (source)
  • He cuts into an aisle in section 35 and walks down into the heat and smell of the massed fans, he walks into the smoke that hangs from the underside of the second deck, he hears the talk, he enters the deep buzz, he hears the warm-up pitches crack into the catcher's mitt, a series of reports that carry a comet's tail of secondary sound.†   (source)
  • She lifts her skirts and runs up the stairs, shooting past the rest of us like a comet.†   (source)
  • Mortenson gathered a comet's tail as he passed into tawny fields where other women peered at him over growths of buckwheat and barley, which they were at work harvesting with scythes.†   (source)
  • —PRIVATE TEX STANTON, 2ND PLATOON, EASY COMPANY IT BEGAN EERILY, IN THE NIGHT: A dark Pacific sky cut by hellish red comets, rising and descending in clusters of three, each descent followed by a distant explosion.†   (source)
  • Her teeth were bared, her eyes shone like fire, and her long hair streamed out behind her like a comet's tail.†   (source)
  • 'And if they comet' I insisted, studying him.†   (source)
  • At night we heard the pop of handguns from Battleship and saw comet streaks, messages from earth to sky.†   (source)
  • Below us, Angel dropped the metal bar and zipped upward, streaming like a comet, her small face serene and beautiful.†   (source)
  • I've gone from being terrified that there's a comet coming to being horrified that no one believes there's a comet coming.†   (source)
  • I stumbled down the street, the comet tail in my eyes, seeing a little better now and looking back to see the water spraying like a mad geyser in the moonlight.†   (source)
  • It became gradually clear, as I sat there listening, watching the orange comets of their cigarettes arch across the dark, what the trouble was about.†   (source)
  • One night in September, going out in the dark to view a comet, Adams tripped over a stake in the ground and ripped his leg open to the bone, so that for months he too was confined to the house, a doctor "daily hovering" to bathe and dress the wound.†   (source)
  • Huge flares raced overhead from the citadel, screaming past like crimson comets to burst over the outer walls and signal that those forces should pull back.†   (source)
  • But this is not the smell of Comet or Windex.†   (source)
  • She needed the time, yet she wished the train would go faster; but it was the Taggart Comet, the fastest train in the country.†   (source)
  • He reached for the elevator call button, but before his finger touched it, the doors slid open of their own accord, and Isabelle seemed to almost explode through them, her silvery-gold whip trailing behind her like the tail of a comet.†   (source)
  • I swear, I thought it was a comet.†   (source)
  • When he looked up he discovered that the comets of snow, the dazzling spray, and the singing of the wind in the sun were right above him.†   (source)
  • With the cameras rolling, he walks toward the center describing Einstein's general theory of relativity and goes into some facts—black holes are the remnants of former stars; they're so dense that not even light can escape; they lurk inside every galaxy; they're the most destructive force in the cosmos; as a black hole passes through space, it engulfs everything that comes too close to it, stars, comets, planets.†   (source)
  • A woman in skintight, unadorned black burst in like a comet, perfect teeth bared, lethal red nails curled into talons.†   (source)
  • He rode looking straight ahead, a crowd beginning to trail out after him like the tail of a comet.†   (source)
  • The most dangerous were comets which, despite having the essential consistency of a slushee, moved very fast and were generally very big.†   (source)
  • He recognized his old desperation coming around, a personal comet.†   (source)
  • I am neither internee nor informer; An inner émigré, a grown long-haired And thoughtful; a wood-kerne Escaped from the massacre, Taking protective colouring From bole and bark, feeling Every wind that blows; Who, blowing up these sparks For their meagre heat, have missed The once in a lifetime portent, The comet's pulsing rose.†   (source)
  • Though I was always waked for eclipses, and indeed carried to the window as an infant in arms and shown Halley's Comet in my sleep, and though I'd been taught at our diningroom table about the solar system and knew the earth revolved around the sun, andour moon around us, I never found out the moon didn't come up in the west until I was a writer and Herschel Brickell, the literary critic, told me after I misplaced it in a story.†   (source)
  • For three or four minutes I had a name, and the duties and joys and frustrations a man carries with him like a comet's tail.†   (source)
  • The bush boy had never seen such hair, sand-coloured and trailing like the comet that rides the midnight sky.†   (source)
  • BOLLINGER (Running on, carrying his comet) Station master says old 94's on time out of Chattanooga.†   (source)
  • Meteors broke fire above his head, and comets inscribed blazing arcs upon a vault of black glass.†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [to JEAN] Went past like a comet!†   (source)
  • The musket ball streaked out of the barrel like a comet, trailing flames and smoke.†   (source)
  • 'And I'm still riding a Comet Two Sixty' said Tonks enviously.†   (source)
  • I was a comet hurtling toward the earth.†   (source)
  • I dove aside as the fiery bronze comet sailed past my shoulder.†   (source)
  • But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.†   (source)
  • Like a comet indeed, when it veers to earth and turns the fields to ash.†   (source)
  • The first star was a comet, burning red.†   (source)
  • The glowing iron streaked in front of my face like a comet.†   (source)
  • Everybody thinks we have a huge fleet of warships waiting in the comet shield.†   (source)
  • Next moment, what seemed to be a great green-and-gold comet came zooming into the stadium.†   (source)
  • Images of stars, comets, and planets twinkled in the falling rain, but Langdon ignored them.†   (source)
  • The comet was due to appear any moment now.†   (source)
  • "I'll give you the Comet of 1812," Anna said.†   (source)
  • But comets are slow, whereas radio waves are fast.†   (source)
  • The videos of the Second Invasion, when they were destroying our fleets out in the comet shell.†   (source)
  • If he'd counted correctly, then the comet was meant to appear tonight.†   (source)
  • Originally, it was spread around on comets.†   (source)
  • Just a reminder about the comet viewing, as if we could forget!†   (source)
  • On the morrow, on the new moon, when the red comet comes again?†   (source)
  • That was before the war or the red comet, before I was a Sea worth or a knight.†   (source)
  • Blackjack folded his wings and plummeted toward the boat like a black comet.†   (source)
  • The priest had dreamed the same dream, when first he'd seen the red comet in the sky.†   (source)
  • "Never mind about comets, it's maps the Old Bear wants."†   (source)
  • All the onagers fired at once, and six golden comets billowed into the sky.†   (source)
  • ANGELO VENETTI: That was no comet—that was a bomb inside the plane.†   (source)
  • But Max would not let go, clutching the searing shape as though it were a runaway comet.†   (source)
  • They say the red comet is a herald of a new age.†   (source)
  • He thought of the passengers-the three hundred passengers aboard the Comet.†   (source)
  • A fiery golden comet crossed her path …. maybe her brother Apollo.†   (source)
  • But I knew when I told her about the comet, years from now, I would know.†   (source)
  • No red comet blazed across the heavens to herald their coming.†   (source)
  • The augur's scream faded until he was simply part of the fiery comet soaring skyward.†   (source)
  • There's been a comet coming every year for two thousand years.†   (source)
  • Do you know how hard it is to steer a comet?†   (source)
  • Blue lights were streaking across the evening sky toward Olympus like tiny comets.†   (source)
  • They keep blowing the comet off for that matter.†   (source)
  • But his heart sank as the comet kept gaining altitude.†   (source)
  • That night she lay upon her thin blanket on the hard ground, staring up at the great red comet.†   (source)
  • What is known is that the Freight Special crashed into the rear of the Comet.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of feet they fell, trailing fire like a comet.†   (source)
  • It was the comet that always made her seem that much more mystical, different.†   (source)
  • A comet is something that is mostly ice, meaning solid water, ammonia, et cetera.†   (source)
  • The comet disappeared behind the western hills.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it is my comet, he thought drowsily at the last, just before sleep took him.†   (source)
  • "Yes," I said, "she was born in May of 1910, when the comet was coming through.†   (source)
  • Have them meet me in my car aboard the Comet.†   (source)
  • The comet is five hundred thousand cubic meters.†   (source)
  • Just before Jason blacked out, the comet intercepted the ball of fire above them.†   (source)
  • He jabbed his bony finger back at comet and castle.†   (source)
  • The Comet is stalled seven miles north of here.†   (source)
  • She could create anything, even a comet, and make it dance before your eyes.†   (source)
  • "We follow the comet," Dany told her khalasar.†   (source)
  • "I thought you were mining this," Steve said, looking at the comet parked next to the asteroid.†   (source)
  • That one has superiority over everything on the line, including the Comet, by order of the Army.†   (source)
  • She was born in May of 1910, as Halley's Comet lit up the sky of her small town in Virginia.†   (source)
  • The smallfolk have named it King Joffrey's Comet."†   (source)
  • A is A. The locomotive of the eastbound Comet broke down in the middle of a desert in Arizona.†   (source)
  • Once the asteroid becomes molten. the comet will melt and then, well, boil.†   (source)
  • The winter I was six, we made a special trip to visit her for the comet's passing.†   (source)
  • Send the Comet through safely and without unnecessary delay.†   (source)
  • "The comet's about a hundred meters, right?"†   (source)
  • This comet is sent to herald Joffrey's ascent to the throne, I have no doubt.†   (source)
  • It was undiscovered country, as wide as the Grand Canyon, as distant as Halley's Comet.†   (source)
  • The comet was splendid and scary all at once.†   (source)
  • The engineer will be Pat Logan, of the Taggart Comet, the fireman-Ray McKim.†   (source)
  • So how are we going to stuff the comet in the hole?†   (source)
  • The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.†   (source)
  • "They didn't get enough of the mass of the comet into the asteroid.†   (source)
  • She was near blind and could not see the comet, yet she claimed she could smell it.†   (source)
  • It was an old steam engine, the best that the railroad had been able to provide for the Comet.†   (source)
  • Have them hold the Comet for me…… Yes, tonight's Comet.†   (source)
  • Now we're going to suck the comet into the hole."†   (source)
  • The comet mocks my hopes, she thought, lifting her eyes to where it scored the sky.†   (source)
  • Comets are mostly what we would call air.†   (source)
  • I had to see her off-she has just left, on the Comet…… Yes, tonight, just now….†   (source)
  • Above, the comet blazed red and malevolent.†   (source)
  • The wav that asteroids and comets are detected has to do with the way that stars are viewed.†   (source)
  • The Dothraki named the comet shierak qiya, the Bleeding Star.†   (source)
  • Some of the passengers aboard the Comet were awake.†   (source)
  • If I flew high enough, I could even see the Seven Kingdoms, and reach up and touch the comet.†   (source)
  • He looked at the lights of the tunnel, then at the long chain of the Comet's windows.†   (source)
  • At night they camped beneath a starry sky and gazed up at the comet.†   (source)
  • Call the Taggart trainmaster at Laurel, report the Comet's delay and explain to him what happened.†   (source)
  • The thing in the sky is a comet, sweet child.†   (source)
  • I'll undertake to remain in charge for you and to deliver the Comet to your man at Laurel.†   (source)
  • She asked involuntarily, "Did the Comet reach San Francisco?"†   (source)
  • He cupped his hands around his mouth and lifted his head to the comet.†   (source)
  • He had to get the Comet out of here, he thought.†   (source)
  • It was dark amongst the trees, but the comet lit his way, and his feet were sure.†   (source)
  • Shouldn't the gods have sent Joff a golden comet?†   (source)
  • The Comet, none the less, was so ordered to proceed.†   (source)
  • He looked at the Comet as it came slowly toward him.†   (source)
  • I never heard of the Comet being held up!†   (source)
  • The conductor stood by the rear end of the Comet.†   (source)
  • "This is the Taggart Comet," said Eddie Willers, choking.†   (source)
  • "Don't abandon the Comet!" cried Eddie Willers.†   (source)
  • By the time tonight's Comet Teaches Kirby, Nebraska, the track will be ready.†   (source)
  • But we can't keep the Comet waiting on a siding all night!†   (source)
  • Wood scowled his displeasure that Cho Chang had made a full recovery, then said, "On the other hand, she rides a Comet Two Sixty, which is going to look like a joke next to the Firebolt."†   (source)
  • After two hours, many complaints, and several tantrums, one involving a crashed Comet Two Sixty and several broken teeth, Harry had found himself three Chasers: Katie Bell, returned to the team after an excellent trial; a new find called Demelza Robins, who was particularly good at dodging Bludgers; and Ginny Weasley, who had outflown all the competition and scored seventeen goals to boot.†   (source)
  • Potter's really putting it through its paces now, see it turn —Chang's Comet is just no match for it, the Firebolt's precision— balance is really noticeable in these long —"†   (source)
  • Another comet hurtled toward us.†   (source)
  • The Ousters had been the single external threat to the Hegemony for the four centuries since the forebears of the barbarian hordes had left Sol System in their crude fleet of leaking O'Neill cities, tumbling asteroids, and experimental comet farm clusters.†   (source)
  • When you think the Comet Two Ninety's only nought to sixty and that's with a decent tailwind according to Which Broomstick?'†   (source)
  • Comet?†   (source)
  • The massive orb protruding from the face of the pyramid was carved in basso-relievo and depicted all kinds of heavenly bodies—constellations, signs of the zodiac, comets, stars, and planets.†   (source)
  • Just because you witnessed the Comet of 1812, does not mean that Sofia must wear a petticoat and bustle.†   (source)
  • I will not try to describe the beauty of life in a Swarm-their zero-gravity globe cities and comet farms and thrust clusters, their micro-orbital forests and migrating rivers and the ten thousand colors and textures of life at Rendezvous Week.†   (source)
  • Yes, comet.†   (source)
  • This may be just a basic principle of nature, like Darwinian selection, or it may be an actual piece of information that floats around the universe on comets and radio waves-I'm not sure.†   (source)
  • The only name they knew was that of Peter Wiggin, the Hegemon of Earth; the only news that came was news of peace, of prosperity, of great ships leaving the littoral of Earth's solar system, passing the comet shield and filling up the bugger worlds.†   (source)
  • She saw the comet viewing party as the perfect moment for Glass to reenter Phoenix society, armed with the official pardon and dressed to perfection.†   (source)
  • She'd been trying on gowns for two hours, and they were no closer to picking one for the comet viewing party than when they'd started.†   (source)
  • As the comet's trail faded into blackness, Bellamy hurried back down the slope, eager to get back before Octavia woke up and realized he'd gone.†   (source)
  • The comet erupted across the sky, a streak of gold against the glittering silver, brightening everything around it, even the ground.†   (source)
  • "There's a comet on track to pass right by the ship—the closest any has come since the Colony was founded."†   (source)
  • Before the launch, he'd heard of a comet passing, which would've been pretty spectacular to see from the ship.†   (source)
  • The crowd's anxious murmurs bubbled into exclamations of astonishment as the comet swept up and above the ship in a blaze of fire.†   (source)
  • "What were you doing near the bridge?" her mother asked, then blinked, taking in the clothes Glass had changed into after the comet viewing party.†   (source)
  • Most of the people who'd assembled to watch the comet were heading back to their residential units on the lower decks, making it difficult to move toward the skybridge.†   (source)
  • The numbness that had set in during the long walk from her cell to the launch deck melted away like an icy comet passing the sun, leaving a faint trail of hope in its wake.†   (source)
  • There was no designated observation deck on Walden, but there were a number of corridors with small windows on the starboard side, where the comet was expected to make its appearance.†   (source)
  • Are you excited for the comet?†   (source)
  • "Yes," she said simply, because there was nothing else to say, nothing else to do but put on the locket and kiss the boy she loved so much it hurt, as behind them the comet streaked the sky with gold.†   (source)
  • The Council had approved the exception, and for the first time anyone could remember, the Earthmade instruments were taken from their preservation chambers and carried carefully to the observation deck for the comet viewing party.†   (source)
  • For the comet?†   (source)
  • Instead of fading away like most comets, it grew larger, the tail expanding as it blazed through space.†   (source)
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  • What did you say you've got at home, Malfoy, a Comet Two Sixty?   (source)
    comet = product name
  • Comets look flashy, but they're not in the same league as the Nimbus.   (source)
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