All 3 Uses
comet
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
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- Like a comet it bursts into a streamer of smoke and falls headlong.†
p. 43.3 *comet = a small icy body that orbits the sun
- He sits down again and Himmelstoss disappears like a comet.†
p. 90.1
- And often sound does not quite become a word but suffocates or floats away over me half finished; an arch, a pathway, a comet.†
p. 149.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(comet) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)