The passing of a comet now, as far as fear is concerned, means no more, in fact not as much, as the passing of an automobile.
The earth in the circle of its orbit passed through the tail of Halley's comet in May, 1910, and we hadn't even a pyrotechnical display of fire rockets to celebrate the occasion.
For eight days a dreadful comet flamed in the sky, which every one said foreboded evil.
Ezekiel is a very comet of fire, flaming his impetuous way across the heavens, and, like the living spirits in his own first vision, going and returning as a flash of lightning.
The comet has reached its extreme limit, it is turning--it is drawing to the light--to hope.
When he had lifted it off a light poured from it and streamed into the heaven like a crimson comet or a spear of the northern aurora.
But when the comet of 1812 appeared the people grew afraid--and with cause, for the war soon began with England.
We could not fail to sympathise with both sufferers; for in the summer of the famous comet we ourselves had nearly shared the same fate.
But what cometis yon in the sky--"with fear of change perplexing mallards?
Do you know that the comet is the forerunner of misfortune and mourning?
A comet is the prophet's material symbol concerning which he can cry, "Look!
And that comet in the sky is like an illuminated pen with which an invisible hand is writing the fate of empires and their rulers amid the stars.
In wine-growing countries it is true that a comet year is said to promise a good wine year.
A comet is the herald of pest, of war, of downfall!
Comet and moon had both sunk beneath the horizon of the thick sea of mist.
And a comet has no influence upon the increase of brandy.
The appearance of the comet only heightened the general feeling of excitement.
It had always been assumed that our comet was of uniform structure, but why let such a matter rest in uncertainty?
Here is our greatest museum, beside which all other collections of natural objects are as nothing, for all that has been found in the comet remains there; nothing has been allowed to be taken away.
But at length the spirit of inquiry proved to be too strong, and within a comparatively recent period the comet has been broken into and explored with wonderful results.
The comet fell, as I have said, in an uninhabited plain, but it is now at the door of the largest city on our planet, which has been built there since the discoveries were made.
The comet had no established period, as so many others have, but seemed to be an entirely new-comer, and from its first appearance showed plainly that it was making straight for our planet.
The belief that the comet did not originate in our solar system has been verified, for we find that the globe of which it was once a part revolved around an immense sun which had a retinue of twenty- seven planets of various sizes.
Macedo consulted all the old almanacs in the place to ascertain whether it was the same comet as that of 1811, which he said he well remembered.
January there was a collision; my comet grazed the earth; and the bits of the earth which you have named were carried clean away.
It was little more than ten weeks to the 15th of January, when the comet would begin to re-approach the sun.
It was scarcely likely that the comet could supply the fuel of which ere long they would be in urgent need.
Indeed, the disappearance of his moon had utterly disconcerted him, and the probability that he should soon lose his comet also, plunged him into an excess of grief which he preferred to bear in solitude.
Plausible enough," answered Count Timascheff; "and it is to this comet that our scientific friend here has given the name of Gallia.
Then the comet let herself down to the doors of that same temple, in which Aderke had so terribly misbehaved on his arrival in the said region.
In an instant the comet began gradually to draw nearer to the opening in the vaulted ceiling.
As a punishment for my most stupid volunteering, he deprived me of the shining form of a comet and transformed me into a woman, whom he commanded to guard the poisonous monsters.
Very good message, if Comet happens to be at the telegraph station when it comes!
We gain no clearer insight into the matter, when we are told that a comet which does not pass beyond the bounds of the system may perhaps be absent on its journey for more than a thousand years.
No comet need foretell his change drew on, Whose corps might seem a constellation.
In 1337 a great comet appeared in the heavens, its far-extending tail sowing deep dread in the minds of the ignorant masses.
I was also shown a comet which had recently become visible through their telescopes, and found from its position that it was undoubtedly Halley's comet, for which our astronomers were so eagerly watching.
No; that is Halley's comet which he has predicted for next spring.
Yes; I suppose he thought that if he removed his custom the comet would fail.
Mighty talk there is of this Comet that is seen a'nights; and the King and Queene did sit up last night to see it, and did, it seems.
It is because of Roon that the worlds are never still, for the moons and the worlds and the comet are stirred by the spirit of Roon, which saith: "Go!
Shortly before he died, according to Florentius, a comet appeared, sent, as it would seem, to announce his coming end.
There was a comet visible at the time of one of these little journeys.
On returning to Spezia in the summer of 1861, the beautiful comet visible that year appeared for the first time the very evening we arrived.
Nothing could be more poetical than the clear starlit heavens with this beautiful comet reflected, nay, almost repeated, in the calm glassy water of the gulf.
You pretend to be the first that discovered the comet altho' it has been looked for by men of science for some time back.
The return of Halley's comet, in 1835, exactly at the computed time, was a great astronomical event, as it was the first comet of long period clearly proved to belong to our system.
A question of immense importance, since the whole theory of light and colours and the resistance of Encke's comet depends upon that hypothesis.
But no mention is made of the Peasent at Inchbonny who first discovered the beautifulcomet 1811.
I am sorry to say with all the improvement and learning that we can boast of in the present day Halley's comet the predictions have not been fulfilled, either with respect to time or place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "comet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: comet; lodestar; orb; sphere; star
