He threw back his head and stared up at the trillions upon trillions of stars that glittered and gleamed in the jet black sky.
In our Milky Way the stars seem to be crushed together into a whitish jelly, but the awful truth looms up before us with all sublimity that, although these stars seem to lie one upon another, they are millions and trillionsof miles apart.
In this wide flight I traveled a distance so great that I will not weary the mind with mentioning the trillions of miles.
The wealth of unnumbered trillions is easily represented in one orb of Heaven's empire.
Generally, as the electrons receive the flood of trillions of waves, they absorb either the long or the medium or the short, and they give us the wonderful colour-scheme of nature.
If we moved still farther away, trillions of miles away, the planets would fade entirely out of view, and the sun would shrink into a point of fire, a star.
What is happening is the agitated electrons flying round in their orbits at a speed of trillions of times a second.
The pair of stars which we have discovered in it are hundreds of trillions of miles away from the earth, yet we know their masses and their distances from each other.
The piece of cold iron you hold in your hand, the bit of brick you pick up, or the penny you take from your pocket is a colossal reservoir of energy, since it consists of trillions of moving atoms.
On the above scale the nearest star (at a distance of 25 trillions of miles) would be over one half mile away.
If they have, such planets would be too faint and small to be visible tens of trillions of miles away.
This same heat would bring to the boil in an hour, two trillions nine hundred milliards of cubic kilometers of water at freezing-point.
We know that millions and trillions of miles separate the stars from one another.
It was because of billions of billions of memories amassed through trillions of lives, and blended within you into some one vague delicious image, that you came to believe a certain being more beautiful than the sun.
And even as phosphor-lampings in currents of midnight sea, so shall shimmer and pulse and pass, in mine Ocean of Death and Birth, the burning of billions of suns, the whirling of trillions of worlds.
Some terrific force was at work, creating worlds and disturbing the positions of stars within a radius already known to extend billions and trillions of miles from the path of the seven new stars.
Trillions of years ago in your time-calculation, but only a few dozen centuries ago in ours, life arose on the giant world Kygpton in our universe.
With the trillions and trillionsnow at its disposal, Japan was about to take charge of America's future.
I read somewhere that if a billion monkeys had typewriters and kept pecking away at them they'd eventually turn out all the Encyclopedia Brittanica in trillions and trillions of years.
We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillionsahead of them.
One by one the twelve Spokesmen, each the head and representative of the teeming trillions comprising his Gens, acceded.
The Gens of Dalis--the trillions of people who swore allegiance to him--would lead the attack on the Moon.
In the smallest discernible fraction of a second, in the almost instantaneous perception of a sensible quality, there may be trillions of oscillations which repeat themselves.
And the progress must be continuous, in nature, from the beings that vibrate almost in unison with the oscillations of the ether, up to those that embrace trillions of these oscillations in the shortest of their simple perceptions.
Humanity counts its seasons, its days and hours by the Sun--but beyond the Sun there are millions and trillions of other and larger suns, compared with which our guiding orb is but a small star.
We are trillionsupontrillions of miles distant from any great constellation--" "Do I not know it?
Mr. Oxlee proves ten trillions of trillions in the Deity, in order to deduce 'a fortiori' the rationality of three: the Unitarian from the Three pretends to deduce the equal rationality of as many thousands.
Its few trillions of miles of diameter, though it seems so vast to us, is quite insignificant in comparison with a large proportion of the spiral nebulæ in the universe.
This is equal to about six trillions of miles in a year, or about sixty-three thousand times the distance of the sun from the earth, our family measuring-stick.
Far away as he is, the distance between us is short compared with the many trillions of miles farther that we must go to reach the nearest star, and in thinking of him we always have a sense of this.
In every aesthetic sensation is the stirring of trillions of trillions of ghostly memories buried in the magical soil of the brain.
The electromagnetic interaction was much the stronger of the two—trillions and trillions and trillions of times as strong as the gravitational attraction.
The cell is the unit of life; all living bodies are but vast confraternities of cells, some billions or trillions of them in the human body; the cell builds up the tissues, the tissues build up the organs, the organs build up the body.
How many millions or trillions of times does the rose divide its heart in the perfume it sheds so freely upon the air?
Across this gulf the two planes respond to each other, note for note, the note in trillions chording when the note in thousands is struck.
I am prepared to funnel trillions of yen into this project before it is over.
All those chips would be trying trillions of keys when there actually was no key.
There is an agitation in her gems, That quiver incessantly, emitting trillions of fiery rays.
Light that jingles like anklet chains On bevies of little lithe twinkling feet, Or clingles in myriad vibrations Like trillions of porcelain Vases shattering.
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