Tis joy to see our Harrison, Plunge like a meteor bright Into the thickest of the fray, And deal his deathly might.
The pennon drops that led the sacred band Along the crimson field; The meteor blade sinks from the nerveless hand Over the spotless shield.
Know what any bird may mean, Meteor in my heart shall rest, Spelled on my brain blaze th' unguessed Words of the rainbow's dazzling sheen.
We watched the meteor flight of shell, And saw the lightning flash-- Saw where each fiery missile fell, And heard the sullen crash.
But ever while we sing of war, of courage tried and true, Of heroes wed to gallant deeds, or be it Gray or Blue, Then Albert Sidney Johnston's name shall flash before our sight Like some resplendent meteoracross the sombre night.
Anon shot by, Like a lone meteor of the sky, A single horseman; and he shone His bright face on me, and was gone.
A meteor or exhalation formerly supposed to be thrown from the clouds with such violence that by collision it is set on fire.
Defn: A meteoror atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor of water; -- in the pl.
Yesterday morning, about an hour before sunrise, a bright meteorwas seen in the south-west.
For six months he was the rage at Paris: perhaps he might have continued to be the rage there for six years, but all at once the meteor vanished as suddenly as it had flashed.
They measured the yard and put small wooden sticks in various places, which, after the exit of Petunikoff and at the order of the Captain, Meteor took out and threw away.
The naive eyes of young Meteorlight up, and his cheeks flush crimson.
I will stare him out of his wits; I will awe him with my cudgel; it shall hang like a meteor o'er the cuckold's horns.
I miss'd the meteor once, and hit that woman, who cried out 'Clubs!
It is somemeteor that the sun exhales To be to thee this night a torchbearer And light thee on the way to Mantua.
There are few persons, if any, who have not witnessed the sight of a splendid meteor speeding across the sky, and such a sight always calls forth exclamations of wonder and delight.
Occasionally a meteor is so large and compact as to escape total destruction, and falls to the earth.
I have seen fit to divide the principal meteor showers into four groups, according to the seasons in which they appear, and have placed them respectively at the conclusion of each season's work on the constellations.
Like an evening meteor sweeping, Joyful glides she through the night, Like an Alpine roebuck leaping Over precipice and height.
Studded with nails were the walls, and upon them were hanging Helmets and coats-of-mail closely together; also between them Here and there flashed down a sword, like a meteor shooting at evening.
And whence did the meteor come which passed so close to us?
As far as was possible I followed the route I thought the meteor had taken.
Gradually it would have receded in the mind, and even the original witness might ultimately be persuaded that he had not in reality seen a meteor at all!
The meteor shines and burns; it is always a meteor!
The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of Peace return.
In another locality a meteor signifies the death of an individual, and is referred to as "Tee-go-binah.
A meteor flashed across it, and it was hailed as a sign that Caesar was alive and had gone to his own country.
Yet in circumstances to be mentioned they find in a meteor a sign that life has been restored to an individual whom they have done to death.
Herein lies the explanation of many a deliberate and confessed killing, while to the meteor have the perpetrators looked for absolution and remission of their sin.
A meteor in the realms of chiaroscuro which obscures whatever the most daring servants of that power elsewhere produced.
But for the first two hours after their arrival, the ship's meteor reflectors remained active.
As soon as he had looked at it Mr. Weston said it was the very meteor for which he and Professor Anderson had been looking so long.
Well, that was all of the meteor we could find for some time," went on Mr. Weston.
I thought once themeteor might be there, but it was not.
This meteoris a good bit like a sulphur match," said Mr. Weston.
Ted to his sister about a week after the meteor had been dug up.
Now we are under the meteor flag of old England,” said Clyde Blacklock, the fourth lieutenant of the Prince, after the squadron had come to anchor off the Rock.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meteor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: fireball; meteor; radiant
