Proxima Centauri--that had been Gabriel's dream, too.
Given half a chance I could have straightened out--gone to Proxima Centauri, maybe, and then out to one of the frontier planets.
And then--I still thinkProxima is a good idea, don't you?
In the present case Fleay suggests that the motto, Ficta, voluptatis causa, sint proxima veris, is an indication that we are to look upon the characters as real persons.
The words quae proxima est Numidiae Cortius would eject as superfluous and spurious.
God knows, no man hunting for a place to live would wait and head for Proxima I.
His eye caught a bit of glitter in the dust of Proxima I and he stooped to pick it up because Nora might like a crystal from a far planet.
Eventually a man impersonating me would head for Proxima I to do something there--God knows what--while the real Paul Grayson was free to complain to everybody that he was really not on Proxima I doing his job?
No one--" Paul stopped as the familiar voice on his recording went through his brain as it had so often since he heard it on Proxima I: '.
Not only that, but just exactly why any man possessed of sane mind would be onProxima I (save Paul, who had business there) was mystery at its best.
Suppose that you had been able to convince the Terran Physical Society that you had received Z-waves from Terra while you were on Proxima I.
We'll have the electronic calculator figure out a course for Proxima I for tomorrow night.
Since there was no air on Proxima I, the billowing dust rose and spread apart until the individual dust mote lost its energy and fell back to Proxima I by gravitational attraction.
There was a guy on Proxima about to impersonate me--or maybe impersonate the impersonation you provided.
But Proxima is a tiny star, one of a trinary, and the other two magnificent stars overwhelmed the feeble light of Proxima.
Then he said: "I have here a recording made over the Z-wave receiver I took with me to Proxima Centauri I.
I'm due on Proxima Centauri I to check the arrival of the Bureau of Astrogation survey beam.
His masquerader might have returned from Proxima I with honest data about the beam, but Paul Grayson might as well have been found in a wrecked landing on Terra with evidence that indicated complete failure in the Z-wave.
Upon my arrival at the Proxima Station, this Z-wave recorder was started with the radio.
Urticæ proxima sæpe rosa est=--The nettle is 30 often next to the rose.
Ficta voluptatis causa sit proxima veris=--Fictions meant to please should have as much resemblance as possible to truth.
The faintest of all known stars is INNES' star “Proxima Centauri” with M = 13.
It is not possible at present to decide with accuracy whether Proxima Centauri--as the star is called by INNES--or α Centauri is our nearest neighbour.
They will know that only Proxima Centauri in all space may the Vulcan hope to reach in their lifetime, or perhaps even in that of their descendants, for a message to that effect they will find presently.
After two hundred hours, or when they are well beyond Jupiter, this device will swing the Vulcan straight toward Proxima Centauri, the nearest star.
The attack on Proxima Centaurus had to come--and the sooner the better.
First contact, a hundred years earlier, had ignited instant conflict between Proxima Centauran outposts and exploring Terran raiders.
In the center of the lab Icarus rose up, the gray squat cylinder that someday would flash through space at a speed of thousands of times that of light, toward the heart of Proxima Centaurus, over four light years away.
All facts considered, the odds favored a successful repulsion byProxima Centaurus of a Terran military attack.
He will align himself with Proxima Centaurus, gaining speed rapidly.
The signal had been sent out to the warfleet that had waited so long near Proxima Centaurus.
Twas she who, when Proserpine had left her cradle, would bear her in her loving bosom and bring the little girl to mighty Jove and set her to play on her father’s Page 358 haec comes, haec custos, haec proxima mater haberi.
All I know is that mutations occurred sometime while Proxima Centauri was an orphan system, which enable many of us to make small changes in our appearance.
Thane was then in his own normal: black hair and eyes, somewhat over two meters in height, with the heavily tanned Proxima skin.
His rebus confectis Caesar, ut reliquum tempus a labore intermitteretur, milites in proxima municipia deducit; ipse ad urbem proficiscitur.
Item sunt in dicto manerio 22 virgate et debent invenire in proxima septimana post festum S^{ti} Michaeli, per unum diem a mane usque ad horam meridianam 44 carecta, ad fima domini cariandum.
We didn't head for Proxima Centaurus," said Jones mildly.
The Yucconae had been contacted on one of the outlying planets of Proxima Centauri.
The world has been fighting for a long time, first with itself, then with the Martians, then with these beings from Proxima Centauri, whom we know nothing about.
The ring around Proxima was a living ring, superior to anything Terra could throw against it.
We reachedProxima Centauri and found life, and yet somehow we failed.
And now the Wanderer was on the first interstellar flight, hurtling through the dark spaces to Proxima Centauri.
She wondered which was Alpha and which Proxima Centauri.
Six planets for Alpha and seven for Proxima with, for a while, the possibility that one or two more might be on the far side of the respective suns.
They had requested rockets to make the first long hard journey to Alpha and Proxima Centauri.
I'll take the Proxima planet," said Jordan as he went back to the scanner.
Theirs will take them to Proxima because it's relatively close but it's no good beyond that.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proxima" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
