siderial

• The hurried nature of our journey would not allow me to do more; and it will be remembered that my observations were all siderial, by reason that the sextant would not embrace the sun in his almost vertical position at noon. —  Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete
• [790] The _siderial_ day is about four minutes short of the solar; there are 366 sidereal days in the year. —  A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
• "Nervoso-siderial," added Pécuchet. —  Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life
• As though the thought had occurred to them simultaneously, they turned one to the other, and their lips met, their souls met, mingling in one dream; whilst above in the windless heaven space answered space with flashes of siderial light, and Canopus shone and burned like the pointed sword of Azrael. —  The Blue Lagoon: a romance
• Man has no wings, and yet he can soar above the clouds; he is not swift of foot, and yet he can out-speed the fleetest hound or horse; he has but feeble weapons in his organization, and yet he can slay or master all the great beasts; his eye is not so sharp as that of the eagle or the vulture, and yet he can see into the farthest depths of siderial space; he has only very feeble occult powers of communication with his fellows, and yet he can talk around the world and send his voice across mountains and deserts; his hands are weak things beside a lion's paw or an elephant's trunk, and yet he can move mountains and stay rivers and set bounds to the wildest seas. —  Time and Change

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