meteor

• What remained of its walls served the count's staff as a meteor -- rampart during showers, yet they were low enough to be well below the horizon from the center of the crater, giving the count what was effectively a level plain in all directions. —  A Case Of Conscience
• I thought briefly that the meteor might be another thing entirely, a cosmic egg of some star-dwelling bird. —  The Dragons of Chaos
• Sheriff's deputies there say they didn't see the meteor -- or a meteor, for that matter. —  CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2008
• Your meteor is an incontrovertible fact; there is no getting over him; in the —  Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
• We had our faces towards the south, and the course of the meteor was across the south, but not very high, at about the third of the circle of the heavens. —  Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government

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