All 3 Uses of
comet
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- Like a comet it bursts into a streamer of smoke and falls headlong.†
p. 43.3 *
- He sits down again and Himmelstoss disappears like a comet.†
p. 90.0
- 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
Definition:
a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit