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Meanings of great comet in inglês

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Usage of great comet in inglês
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Then it burst into flames and came down like a great comet.
The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro a...
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Similar efforts from the pulpit were provoked by the great comet of 1680.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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When the great comet of 1811 appeared, another of almost equal magnitude followed it.
Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel
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But a truly great comet presents quite a different proposition.
Curiosities of the Sky
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To them the great comet of 1811 was the first announcement of coming great events.
Napoleon's Campaign in Russia, Anno 1812; Medico-Historical
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There across the northern sky sped the great comet.
Round Anvil Rock: A Romance
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In the clear sky over Jerusalem blazed a great comet, in appearance like a sword of fire.
Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem
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Yet he was long a great comet of literary glitter and obscured many men of much greater ability.
The Delicious Vice
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LINA,-Thereis a great comet.
The Story of the Herschels, a Family of Astronomers / Sir Willia...
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Even the great comet through whose filmy tail the earth passed in 1861 was itself fourteen millions of miles away.
A History of Science — Volume 3
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In 1819, when Herschel was more than eighty, he writes to his sister a short note-Lina ,thereis a great comet.
Biographies of Working Men
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Italian astronomer Giovanni Barrata puts the birth of Christ at 12BC, when a great comet was noted by Chinese and European astronomers.
The Irish Times
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It is a phenomenon, like the advent of a great comet, to find a man profoundly versed in science attack the Bible.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith / Being an Examination o...
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For a time a great comet blazed in the heavens, a "wonderful sheaf of light" that glorified his lonely watch.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866
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Herschel had the good fortune to be at the Cape on the occasion of the periodical return of Halley's great comet in 1833.
Great Astronomers
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Once a great comet blazed in the sky, a "wonderful sheaf of light," and glorified his long hours at the wheel.
The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
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