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Definition
a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
- Like a comet it bursts into a streamer of smoke and falls headlong.Chapter 3 (52% in)
- He sits down again and Himmelstoss disappears like a comet.Chapter 5 (65% in)
- And often sound does not quite become a word but suffocates or floats away over me half finished; an arch, a pathway, a comet.Chapter 7 (26% in)
There are no more uses of "comet" in All Quiet on the Western Front.
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