Go measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the sun.
According to this system, the heavenly bodies are set like gems in hollow solid orbs, composed of crystal so transparent, that no anterior orb obstructs in the least the view of any of the orbs that lie behind it.
The physical refutation of the self-existence of the universe is completed by the discovery, that all the orbs of heaven, as well as the earth, are in motion, and that an orderly and regulated motion.
It has long been known, that "one star differeth from another star in glory," and that the orbsof heaven shine with various colors.
He who made the celestial orbs of such a prodigious bulk, and whirls them round with an almost incredible swiftness, causing the regular return of day and night, summer and winter, what can he not do?
All the orbs which revolve round him, and are preserved and cherished in their respective spheres by his ministry, pay him perpetual homage by maintaining invariable harmony and order.
The countless orbs that move through infinite space and a falling sparrow are alike to Him.
The thoughtful grey eyes of the child, and the impenetrable blue orbs of the man.
The wild light in his eyes was quenched when he saw the kindly glow in the blue orbs of the maiden.
Basil took him by the shoulders and stared into his face with an intentness that made the young fellow fancy that the fierce, black orbs confronting him were burning holes in his brain.
Are there no eyes to see those floods of light, no hearts to share with ours that love which holds all these mighty orbs in place?
The wheeling orbs that course their paths of light were vibrant with the strain, and pealed it back into the glad ear of God.
Seven planets or errant stars in the lower orbs of heaven.
Truly “All that is overhead, the mighty orbs With all their motions, thou dost subjugate To man’s intelligence.
A heavenly torch is thine; While feebler races melt away, And paler orbs decline, Still shall the fiery pillar's ray Along thy pathway shine, To light the chosen tribe that sought This Western Palestine.
In Europe all avowed sincere adoration of these orbshas ceased, but traces of sun and moon worship having been once common still remain.
It wandered everywhere, swifter than the moon's sphere; it served the fairy queen to dew her orbs upon the green.
I grieve for others more than for ourselves," and she turned her sightless orbs towards May.
Wide-open yet sightless orbs whereof the cataracts blackened the view of all Life's perils, as they had of the imminent river.
The blue orbs and Cupid lips fluttered and half opened; the dazed little brain tried vainly to sense what had happened.
When will the motion on these orbs impress'd Sink on the bosom of eternal rest?
Who would have deem'd the darkness, which appears, From orbs more brilliant than the sun should rise?
From him, not her those orbs their movement learn.
There, far as the remotest line That bounds imagination's flight, Countless and unending orbs In mazy motion intermingled, Yet still fulfilled immutably 75 Eternal Nature's law.
So close was his head that the two gleaming orbs seemed to be rivetted to us.
She hath brought down the moon's rays from the realms of night to lighten our darkness, she hath marked the courses of the stars with her wand and reduced eccentric orbs to the obedience of a system.
The distances of the orbs compared were then taken to be in the ratio of the reduced to the original apertures of the instruments with which they were examined.
The light of these "Sirian" orbs is white or bluish; and it is found to be rich in ultra-violet rays.
The ordered music of the marching orbs It makes in viewless canopy of sky; In deep abyss of earth it hides up gold, Sards, sapphires, lazuli.
See how be plucks and plucks to seize his grief, And rolls his bloodshot orbs and grinds his teeth, And draws his breath as if 'twere choking smoke.
Bent was his back with load of many days, His eyepits red with rust of ancient tears, His dim orbs blear with rheum, his toothless jaws Wagging with palsy and the fright to see So many and such joy.
There was somthing in those dark deep orbs so liquid, and intense that even in happiness I could never meet their full gaze that mine did not overflow.
For the accomplishment of this rapid journey of the Sun and stars around the Earth, it would be necessary that all the orbs of the sky should be in some way attached to a vault, or to circles, as was formerly supposed.
It is fair to say that the action of a comet might be deleterious if one of these orbs were to arrive directly upon us.
This journey of the orbsaround us is only an illusion of the senses.
These hairy orbs that appear in all directions, and whose trajectories are sometimes actually perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, appear to obey no regular law.
Its mission is not only to make us acquainted with the innumerable orbs by which our nights are illuminated, but it is, moreover, thanks to it that we know where and what we are.
Periodicity in these bearded orbs is thus exceptional, if we think of the innumerable multitude of comets that circle through the Heavens.
These incandescing orbs are so many points of interrogation suspended above our heads in the inaccessible depths of space.
It is the same for all the worlds, with some exceptions of orbs arrested in their development.
These fiery orbs are suns like that which illuminates ourselves.
The orbs that circle round the Sun are opaque bodies, spherical in shape, receiving their light and heat from the central star, on which they absolutely depend.
That would be correct if these orbs were of the same dimensions as the Earth.
These erratic orbs could not be assimilated with the other members of our grand solar family where, generally speaking, everything goes on in regular order.
The Heavens are progressively transformed to the eye of the astronomer, and soon he is able to reckon hundreds of thousands of orbs in the night.
His eyes flashed as he spoke; they seemed to transmit a spark across the room to the dull orbs of the interpreter.
As several gold pieces rolled out on the buffalo rug, the wrinkles so gathered around Willinawaugh's eyes that those crafty orbs seemed totally eclipsed.
I looked up and met the full liquidorbs of the Hon.
The young man turned his dark, liquid orbs fondly upon the ingenuous face of his betrothed.
And not only had he done this, but he had looked into the gray eyes of Beatrice when he should have been gazing with ardour--or simulated ardour--into the rather lustreless orbs of Helen.
So she was accustomed to turn those orbs upon such young men as declared that they adored her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orbs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
