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The totality of the minute, simple world of the humans, microscopic and negligible as it was in the siderial universe, was as far beyond his guessing as is the siderial universe beyond the starriest guesses and most abysmal imaginings of man.

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No test has been applied for the claimed siderial diurnal period or for the correlation with the value of financial securities.

Who Held the Grand Mosque Hostage? Hottinger, Arnold 1980

The totality of the minute, simple world of the humans, microscopic and negligible as it was in the siderial universe, was as far beyond his guessing as is the siderial universe beyond the starriest guesses and most abysmal imaginings of man.

Chapter 24 1917

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 1907

The totality of the minute, simple world of the humans, microscopic and negligible as it was in the siderial universe, was as far beyond his guessing as is the siderial universe beyond the starriest guesses and most abysmal imaginings of man.

Jerry of the Islands Jack London 1896

The progress of the moon through its complete series of stations is accomplished in a siderial month -- that is, twenty-seven days eight hours, but from the nature of the case it cannot be said that these "stations" are brought out each in his season, in that time, as a month makes but a small change in the aspect of the sky.

The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889

They apparently ended in dust that whirled away in the vast abyss of siderial space, blown by the winds upon which suns and systems drift as autumn leaves.

Time and Change John Burroughs 1879

She looked at the small siderial clock, and finding that a quarter of an hour must elapse before she could make the desired observation, drew a chair to the table and seated herself.

Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864

[665] Thomas Kerigan wrote _The Young Navigator's Guide to the siderial and planetary parts of Nautical Astronomy_ (London, 1821, second edition 1828),

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

[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) Augustus De Morgan 1838