You put too much muscle into that stroke, and, as a consequence, the ball flew all the way round the planet and clipped you from behind.
It is extraordinary that until my visit to the planetas the guest of Jupiter, this perfectly simple solution of the various Martian problems was not even guessed.
Planet after planet was passed as we sped on and on upward, and as my delight grew I gave utterance to it.
Hercules drove a ball three times around the planet at one stroke with it yesterday.
I could have kept it up forever, had we not shortly hove in sight of the links, which, as I have already told you, were located on the planet Mars; and such gorgeousness as I there encountered was unparalleled on earth.
He learns to trace the whole to the same unerring hand which guides the planet in its course; and thus rests in the absolute conviction that the economy of Providence is one great and magnificent system of design and order and harmony.
We had got beyond the point where one met others on the road; we had now become our own world, a self-contained planet travelling with the sun through space.
Mangalavaramu and Angarakavaramu being synonymous, it is natural that the barbers should have seized upon this, and given themselves importance by claiming to be the caste of the planet Mars.
The word angaramu means fire, charcoal, a live coal, and angarakudu is theplanet Mars.
As a matter of fact, this planetis considered to be a star of ill omen, and Tuesday is regarded as an inauspicious day.
The planetwhich we inhabit seems to have been prepared for man, and for man only.
Although much smaller, it had the same reddish, arid look as his own home planet, while the third planet was three quarters drowned in water.
Physically the planet still revolved about the sun; politically, Earth revolved around Government City.
As it was, the Nipe had been fortunate in being able to use the gravitational field of the gas giant to swing his ship toward the precise spot where the third planet would be when the ship arrived in the third orbit.
Moreover, the planet would be retreating from the Nipe's line of flight, which would make the velocity difference that much the less.
A city that governs a planet must operate at full capacity twenty-four hours a day, and there was a "rush hour" every three hours as the staggered six-hour shifts changed.
It was partly his difficulty in finding a given spot in a city--almost any city--that had convinced the Nipe that the pseudo-intelligence of the bipeds of this planet could not really be called true intelligence.
Here, over a period of ten revolutions of this planet about its primary, he had built himself a nest that was almost comfortable.
He wondered if it were furnished in the fashion that a Nipe's living quarters would be furnished on whatever planet the multilegged horror had come from.
He would have preferred using the fourth planet for his base.
The actual maneuvering to capture the alien that had terrorized a planet began shortly after noon.
It was highly probable that they were out in space, on the asteroids that his instruments had detected when he was dropping in toward this planet so many years before.
The tilt of this planet on its axis would tend to give the weather a cyclic variation, but it appeared that the areas around the poles remained fairly cold even when the incidence of radiation from the primary was at maximum.
Movement would be much freer and more productive on a planet than it would be in the Belt.
He called the planet Georgium Sidus, in honor of his sovereign, George III.
The world soon awoke to the fact that a new planet had been found, the greatest astronomical discovery since Galileo invented the telescope, and the unknown musician at Bath had become famous!
A shorter interval still, and glorious Saturn, with his noble rings and numerous satellites, is left behind, and a few years more and it shoots across the path of the giant planet Jupiter.
This planet hasn't got excitement enough in it for that girl, and I doubt if the solar system has.
Coburn continued, "You see, they obviously come from a heavy planet and move differently.
He's a creature from some planet other than Earth, passing for a human being.
Maybe a planet of another sun, with a monstrous gravity.
If the figure sitting there with the London Times and a cup of tea before him were actually a monster from another planet .
And this was Coburn's first inkling that he was regarded as a traitor of his planetwho had sold out to the Invaders.
However, it also seemed that a planet had to demonstrate that it would be contributing something to the Federation before it was allowed to join.
It says they won't authorize ships to land on the planet except by invitation.
They'll relay it to the next ship within range, and the ship will relay it to the next planet it nears with the radiogram facilities to send it to Earth.
The situation must be pretty desperate, she rationalized, when the wealthiest girl on the planet has only one dress.
Facies gyvith to a planet that thyng the which rowme gyvith to a maistre.
Domus gevith to a planet v fortitudis; And a planet in his hows is lyke a kynge in his hall, And in the high trone of his glorie.
The spot thus marking the planet's position is, by a very slight movement of the Rete, to be brought upon the horizon, and it will be found that the planet (situated 2d N.
The motion of a planet is called direct, when it moves in the direction of the succession of the zodiacal signs; retrograde, when in the contrary direction.
Every planet had its proper metal; there were therefore seven metals; see the extract from Gower, in the note to l.
The astrolabe can be used to find the degree of the zodiac with which any planet ascends, even when the planet is not situated in the ecliptic (ii.
We can tell, from two observations of a planet properly made, whether the planet's movement is direct or retrograde (ii.
A planet in his triplicite is like a kynge in honour, Amonge his sencible people.
Besides this, each planet had a sign called its 'exaltation,' in which it had the greatest power of all.
The earth is not the only planet which has a moon, or as it is called, a satellite, in attendance.
But, most startling to say, it has shifted its position a little--that is, it takes a few seconds longer to get round the planet than it did at first.
It is a large dark body, very nearly as large as Algol himself, and if, as we may conjecture, it is a mighty planet, we have the extraordinary example of a planet and its sun being nearly the same size.
In this far distant orbit the huge planet takes eighty-four of our years to complete one of his own.
Of course, every planet gives a pull at every other planet too, but these pulls are so small compared with that of the sun that we need not at present notice them.
Why, men have not even yet been able to communicate with the planet Mars, at its nearest only some thirty-five million miles from us, and this is a mere nothing in measuring the space between us and the stars.
This causes wind, but the winds which would be raised on Venus by the rush of air from the icy side of the planet to the hot one would be tornadoes such as we could but faintly dream of.
We can only say the planet seems in every way fitted to support life, even if it is a little different from our earth.
But not so with Gustavus; his inner world stands far apart and abruptly separated from the outer; he cannot pass from either to the other; the outer is only the satellite and companion-planet of the inner.
They learned that being born under a star or planet had nothing to do with their luck; the astrologer was discharged and the astronomer took his place.
And not for an instant did the steady sun stand still or let his planet stand still while barbarian fought barbarian.
The planet of war appeared to be prepared for the attacks of enemies.
Translated into our tongue it ran as follows: "The traditions of my fathers, handed down for generations so many that no one can number them, declare that the planet of Mars was not the place of our origin.
To think that we should have come to the planet Mars to solve one of the standing mysteries of the earth, which had puzzled mankind and defied all their efforts at solution for so many centuries!
The ships of the squadron whose crews had not landed upon the planet were signaled to prepare for action, while those who were upon the asteroid made ready for battle there.
Our planet had staked everything on a single throw.
All mankind was sunk deep in this universal despair, and it became tenfold blacker when the astronomers announced from their observatories that strange lights were visible, moving and flashing upon the red surface of the Planet of War.
More of our men fell before their awful fire, and for the second time since our arrival on this deadful planet of war our annihilation seemed inevitable.
The first thing, then, was to locate the Lake of the Sun on the smoke hidden surface of the planet beneath us.
The more we saw of this golden planet the greater became our astonishment.
Saturn has eight moons and is surrounded with the rings which have made it famous from the time the planet was first seen through the telescope.
Its people are so constituted that their two arms can be used as legs; so it is quite common to see these Scumites travel over their planet like the more graceful of our quadrupeds.
Can any one predict the excitement that would prevail in our world if a human creature from some other planet were suddenly to set foot upon our soil?
At the approach of these celestial regiments the atmosphere far above the planet was darkened by ominous clouds through which the approaching legions shone with unearthly brightness.
Obedient to my impulse, I soon found myself on this odd planet which I have named Airess.
I went from one portion of the planet to another, continually remaining invisible.
One of the most convenient inventions I saw on this planet of Ploid was the carrying of a photograph or image along a wire.
This planet draws that particular element with six times more force than it is held by Alpha Centaurus.
It is enough to say that, to my delight, I reached our neighbor planet called Mars, and at once proceeded to study its physical features and its human life.
My investigations on this planet were long extended.
Thus the rich continued to flourish on all the highlands, for they had extended this same policy until the toilers of the whole planet were practically galley slaves, each consigned to his own narrow canon.
I tarried as long as possible on this instructive planet and have not yet forgotten many of the valuable hints of inventions that can be reproduced in my own world.
Before I had traveled over one-half the surface of this planet I was thoroughly convinced that it was a rough, jagged world without lofty mountain ranges or peaks.
Human beings, charmingly beautiful, moved over the face of the planet or on wings through the air at pleasure and with great ease.
Then recollect, I pray you, that the three oldest peoples known to history on this planet are Egypt, China, Hindostan.
His latest achievement, receiving the visitor from Planet X, had been to construct a robot body for this mysterious brain energy from another world.
Here and there stood scale models of their inventions, a huge relief globe of the earth, and a replica of the planet Mars.
You'll have data from the planet Jupiter that no one on earth has yet been able to get!
We come now to the most charming telescopic object in the heavens--the planet Saturn.
Inferior only to Jupiter in mass and volume, this planet surpasses him in the magnificence of his system.
He forms an estimate of the view he is to obtain of a planet by multiplying the apparent diameter of the planet by the magnifying power of his telescope, and comparing the result with the apparent diameter of the sun or moon.
First we have the planet Mars, nearly the last in the scale of planetary magnitude, but far from being the least interesting of the planets.
The shadow of the rings on the planetis a somewhat more difficult feature.
We merely notice that the planetis most favourably seen as an evening star in spring, and as a morning star in autumn.
The shadow of the planet on the rings is best seen when the rings are well open and the planet is in or near quadrature.
The feeling experienced by those who look through a telescope for the first time,--especially if it is directed upon a planet or nebula--is commonly one of disappointment.
In the first place, as we shall presently see, it shows him what planets are well situated for observation, and secondly it enables him to map down the path of anyplanet from day to day among the fixed stars.
I add four sets of meridians (Plate 6), by filling in which from the charts the observer may obtain any number of views of the planet as it appears at different times.
So the ship which first landed upon it made due note for the Galactic Directory and went away, and no other ship came near the planet for eight hundred years.
The human beings on the planet had forgotten not only the ship but very nearly everything--how they came to this world, the use of metals, the existence of fire, and even the fact that there was such a thing as sunlight.
Two such stories were Murray Leinster's The Mad Planet and Red Dust.
It treated the planet to a sort of Russell's Mixture of living things.
On this planet a courtship did not usually involve displays of valor.
Then the Ecological Preparation Ship Ludred swam to the planet from space.
Not long since, the Planet President of Surmor III was a guest in Burl's dwelling.
And presently, while their way of life was still fluid, the permanent pattern of civilization on the nightmare planet was settled.
The mastodon-sized tarantulas which ravaged so much of the planet would not cross it save in pursuit of prey.
There had been nothing else like it on this planet in many hundreds of years.
The life on the planet was not aboriginal, though.
The planet was stocked, in effect, with everything it could be hoped might live there.
Eurydice, A lavish planet reigned when thou wert born, And made thee of such kindred mould to heaven, Thou seem'st more heaven's than ours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "planet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: asteroid; earth; globe; planet; wanderer
