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a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
- Then there was a wild yelp of agony and the poodle went sailing up the aisle; the yelps continued, and so did the dog; he crossed the house in front of the altar; he flew down the other aisle; he crossed before the doors; he clamored up the home-stretch; his anguish grew with his progress, till presently he was but a woolly comet moving in its orbit with the gleam and the speed of light.Chapter 5 (89% in)
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