When the auroral rain-cloud reached the mountains, on the area where the rain fell the mountains were covered by an exceedingly brilliant white fog blanket, conforming to all the irregular forms of the slopes and passing when the cloud passed.
After the band was completed it was noticed that it was moving south and this motion continued until it came to rest at the star Delta Leonis in the region of the coronal point of the ordinary auroral exhibitions.
It was then noticed that the cloud was surmounted by a fine display of auroral streamers physically connected with it and directed toward the coronal point.
Half of the journey of the band was made before the line separating the base of the cloud-arch and the auroral sky was in the least disturbed.
The perfection of the line of demarcation between the normal and auroral sky was a most extraordinary thing, and it teaches this, that the aurora had a clearly defined and definite border on its advancing side.
Auroral flushes: Like the first faint glimmerings of light in the East that point out the pathway of the rising sun, the uncertain, wavering outlines of the poet's vision precede the perfected theme that is drawing near.
That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way.
To my imagination it retained throughout the day more or less of this auroral character, reminding me of a certain house on a mountain which I had visited a year before.
However, as they were all waiting on the curb in the fresh auroral air, while the starter whistled up their cars, he ventured a chance to murmur to Persis: "I beg you to go home and sleep till noon.
Auroral Notes The auroral light is of a palish green colour, but we now see distinctly a red flush preceding the motion of any bright part.
To-night we had a glorious auroral display--quite the most brilliant I have seen.
When the wind arose the sky overhead was clearer than I ever remember to have seen it, the constellations brilliant, and the Milky Way like a bright auroral streamer.
He must, therefore, have passed through a cloud in which an electrical discharge of an auroral nature was proceeding, accompanied with an audible sound.
The natives of some parts, with subtle hearing-power, speak of the "whizzing" sound which is often heard during auroral displays.
Thou didst draw to thy side Thy young Auroral bride, And lift her veil of night and mystery; Tellus with baby hands Shook off her swaddling-bands, And from the unswathed vapours laughed to thee.
Alas, and I have spoken of her Muse-- Her Muse, that died with her auroral dews!
Why should I yearn for myriad-colored skies, Lit by auroral suns, when I may sing The flame and rapture of her starry eyes?
To left and to right, as far as the eye could see, they stretched--and they vanished in the auroral nebulosity on high!
There it shone in all its unearthly grandeur, on each side of the Cyclopean pillars, as though a mountain should stretch up arms raising between them a fairy banner of auroral glories.
Then, if not too tired to wait for their arrival, how fascinating often were the auroral displays, the mysterious "northern lights.
On this account it is, also, that when the passage of a vortex is attended by an auroral display there will be no thunder-storm.
The bow brightened and faded simultaneously with the aurora, and respected the vertex of the auroral bank, being apparently concentric with it.
We regard, therefore, the nucleus of a comet to represent the mass of the comet and the coma, as auroral rays passing through a very attenuated envelope of detached particles.
At such a time, after dark, the auroral shafts will also be seen over the storm to the northward, but will be invisible to those beneath.
On the 29th of December, Mr. Smallwood records "a lowauroral arch, sky clear.
It is not uncommon also, that meteors are more abundant during an auroral display, as they ought to be by the theory.
The auroral light is not polarized, nor any other electric light, neither is it owing to a state of incandescence, yet it is luminous.
Now, we have examined numerous cases of auroral displays, and never yet found one which could not be legitimately referred to the action of ethereal vortices.
She recalled how he had staggered from the igloo, the agony in his eyes, and how she heard him sobbing his heart-break in the auroral silence without her igloo through the long sleep.
Ootah lay with his eyes closed; he seemed to float in the auroral skies without, in the very happy land of the dead.
Her face was perilously near him; it was very wan and beautiful in the auroral light--Ootah felt his heart beat wildly.
Over the northern skies the auroral lights played, lighting the scene of spontaneous rejoicing with magical glory.
Mr. Saintsbury's notions of what constitutes detonation and auroral light in poetry appear to resemble his notions of what constitutes eloquence in prose.
It was noticed that the denser the fog became, the more apparent was the arch, and vice versa, so that the phenomenon could not have been of an auroral character.
The upper boundary of the clear blue space was an elliptical segment formed by a sheet of white cloud, which was partially illuminated towards the western extremity, and somewhat resembled an auroral arch.
The eastern sky was a great arc of crystal, smitten through with auroral crimsonings.
The Eastern sky was a great arc of crystal, smitten through withauroral crimsonings.
Both nights were marked by fine auroral displays, so extensive and of such apparent height as to give the impression that they must be visible over large areas of the earth.
It may be said roundly that it is a rare thing in winter for a still, clear night, when there is not much moon, to pass without some auroral display in the interior of Alaska.
The sky had a yellow auroral glare-like look, and the Sun, though shining, gave but feeble light.
Hind himself, in Middlesex, observed a peculiar phosphorescence or illumination of the sky which he attributed at the time to an auroral glare.
And chagrined that their auroral dream should have so poor a realization, will they return to their flocks with heavy hearts and sad?
Aurora Borealis, in summer, with abstract of Huxham's auroral register, xxxiii, 297.
But," went on the Captain, "in spite of this auroral light and the moonlight, the winter was dreary enough.
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