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  • A lurid earth-star, which dropped many a spark 4330

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • Being appealed to, several astronomers turned their eyes in the direction of the sun, where the black firmament was ablaze with stars, and in a moment recognized the earth-star shining there, with the moon attending close at hand.

    Edison's Conquest of Mars Garrett Putnam Serviss

  • "When the earth-star rests in the roof-niche of the temple it is climbing," she answered back.

    Gulliver of Mars 1905

  • "When the earth-star rests in the roof-niche of the temple it is climbing," she answered back.

    Gulliver of Mars Edwin Lester Linden Arnold 1896

  • Being appealed to, several astronomers turned their eyes in the direction of the sun, where the black firmament was ablaze with stars, and in a moment recognized the earth-star shining there, with the moon attending close at hand.

    Edison's Conquest of Mars 1890

  • If mine be an earth-star to gladden the wayside, I must cultivate humbly and rejoicingly its green earth-glow, and not seek to blanch it to the whiteness of the stars that lie in the fields of blue.

    A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare George MacDonald 1864

  • If mine be an earth-star to gladden the wayside, I must cultivate humbly and rejoicingly its green earth-glow, and not seek to blanch it to the whiteness of the stars that lie in the fields of blue.

    Adela Cathcart, Volume 1 George MacDonald 1864

  • A lurid earth-star, which dropped many a spark _4330

    The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

  • A lurid earth-star, which dropped many a spark _4330

    The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

  • _it might be a tradition among his people, who we knew worshipped the earth-star, that it was a brighter world than theirs_.

    A Columbus of Space 1890

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