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  • The rest of our family and friends are asteroids and comets floating around the planets orbiting the Sun.†   (source)
  • I got dust rags and Comet cleanser in case I needed them.†   (source)
  • Rockets shooting, fireballs bursting, comets shrieking, sparks sizzling.†   (source)
  • Basically, we're moving through dust left behind by this comet called Giacobini-Zinner, and it would be super beautiful and romantic if only we did not live in gloomy Indiana.†   (source)
  • Just because you witnessed the Comet of 1812, does not mean that Sofia must wear a petticoat and bustle.†   (source)
  • In a paper bag, Aziza packed these things: her flowered shirt and her lone pair of socks, her mismatched wool gloves, an old, pumpkin-colored blanket dotted with stars and comets, a splintered plastic cup, a banana, her set of dice-†   (source)
  • Newton's tomb was covered with orbs—stars, comets, planets.†   (source)
  • She's a fourth year, and she's pretty good.... I really hoped she wouldn't be fit, she's had some problems with injuries.... Wood scowled his displeasure that Cho Chang had made a full recovery, then said, "On the other hand, she rides a Comet Two Sixty, which is going to look like a joke next to the Firebolt."†   (source)
  • I hear that excitement is the master of the hour, that you fling yourself through these dominions like a comet across the firmament.†   (source)
  • Here's a woman who had survived the centrifuge, the vomit comet, hard-landing drills and 10k runs.†   (source)
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  • A big old comet or a chunk of the moon could come crashing down through the roof just now and fall on top of your head.†   (source)
  • Stars, comets, planets, flashed across the sky, and then the earth came into view again, the darkened earth, closer, closer, till it filled the globe, and they had somehow gone through the darkness until the soft white of clouds and the gentle outline of continents shone clearly.†   (source)
  • First she dragged George to the first class library so she could check out a book on Halley's comet.†   (source)
  • This was nothing like the times before, when his touch had left a track like a comet over her skin; when she found herself aching after she told him she wanted to stop.†   (source)
  • Klaus had been about eight, and he remembered how interested he had been in comets, reading all the astronomy books his parents had in their library.†   (source)
  • The maester was peering through his big Myrish lens tube, measuring shadows and noting the position of the comet that hung low in the morning sky.†   (source)
  • Transports blaze along the lowest tier of the Bridge, their headlamps like red and white comets cutting through the night.†   (source)
  • Comets, violins, parades, loneliness, clouds, beards, bigots, lists, flags, earthquakes, despair were all swept up in a scrambled swirling.†   (source)
  • I sped through the dark like a comet.†   (source)
  • I dove aside as the fiery bronze comet sailed past my shoulder.†   (source)
  • Three of us had giant camping flashlights, the glow illuminating jarring images: It was suburbia, post-comet, post-zombie, post-humanity.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, as if on cue, comets and meteor showers would tumble through the starry ranks, adding variation to the flowing dance.†   (source)
  • An Ouster migration cluster might consist of ships ranging in size from single-person ramscouts to can cities and comet forts holding tens of thousands of the interstellar barbarians.†   (source)
  • Everyone calls it "the Vomit Comet," even though NASA refers to it as "The Weightless Wonder," a public-relations gesture aimed at distracting attention from the obvious.†   (source)
  • For Dora Root life with John had been like living upon a comet.†   (source)
  • I searched the skies for flaming comets, for that was how I pictured a cannonball would look.†   (source)
  • They were horrendous—a thick mass of them on her head, a swarm trailing back like a comet's tail as she flew through the air.†   (source)
  • 'And if they comet' I insisted, studying him.†   (source)
  • All around the words were comets and stars, moons and suns, scattered across a light purple background.†   (source)
  • She goes back into the Hong Kong franchise, a nebula of aromatic freshness trailing behind her like the tail of a comet.†   (source)
  • I didn't have to fight long; though I was running faster than I ever had before, shooting like a comet through the straightest path I could find in the trees; Edward caught up with me after a short minute.†   (source)
  • He did not pay any attention because he was listening to the forming of the troops, the sound of the comets, and the voices of command that were shattering the dawn.†   (source)
  • We could chase it down, maybe find out it come from a giant comet turd landin' in his backyard or somethin'.†   (source)
  • We sat and drank and finally talked, two strangers reliving an event—a whirlwind, a comet, a war—we'd both seen but from different faraway angles.†   (source)
  • Comet means a rare calamity will happen.†   (source)
  • I look under the sink and find a dried-out Brillo pad and a can of Comet.†   (source)
  • Still Charles Halloway did not look down at the grille but only at the small comets of splashed red colour left on the sidewalk, trailed around the corner, dropped from the clenched hands of the vanished Mr Dark.†   (source)
  • In May of 2000, three teenage employees at a Burger King in Scottsville, New York, were arrested for putting spit, urine, and cleaning products such as Easy-Off Oven Cleaner and Comet with Bleach into the food.†   (source)
  • Above the jukebox was a picture of Bill Haley & His Comets.†   (source)
  • At night we heard the pop of handguns from Battleship and saw comet streaks, messages from earth to sky.†   (source)
  • At the rear of the grotesque procession trudged a comet's tail of inhabitants from Dras-Leona: nobles, merchants, tradesmen, several high-ranking military commanders, and a motley collection of those less fortunate, such as laborers, beggars, and common foot soldiers.†   (source)
  • He cuts into an aisle in section 35 and walks down into the heat and smell of the massed fans, he walks into the smoke that hangs from the underside of the second deck, he hears the talk, he enters the deep buzz, he hears the warm-up pitches crack into the catcher's mitt, a series of reports that carry a comet's tail of secondary sound.†   (source)
  • It became gradually clear, as I sat there listening, watching the orange comets of their cigarettes arch across the dark, what the trouble was about.†   (source)
  • She lifts her skirts and runs up the stairs, shooting past the rest of us like a comet.†   (source)
  • Mina nodded, and her crown's stars burst into tiny lights that zoomed about the room before rocketing up the chimney like a comet's tail.†   (source)
  • Her teeth were bared, her eyes shone like fire, and her long hair streamed out behind her like a comet's tail.†   (source)
  • One night in September, going out in the dark to view a comet, Adams tripped over a stake in the ground and ripped his leg open to the bone, so that for months he too was confined to the house, a doctor "daily hovering" to bathe and dress the wound.†   (source)
  • Below us, Angel dropped the metal bar and zipped upward, streaming like a comet, her small face serene and beautiful.†   (source)
  • I've gone from being terrified that there's a comet coming to being horrified that no one believes there's a comet coming.†   (source)
  • —PRIVATE TEX STANTON, 2ND PLATOON, EASY COMPANY IT BEGAN EERILY, IN THE NIGHT: A dark Pacific sky cut by hellish red comets, rising and descending in clusters of three, each descent followed by a distant explosion.†   (source)
  • A woman in skintight, unadorned black burst in like a comet, perfect teeth bared, lethal red nails curled into talons.†   (source)
  • Mortenson gathered a comet's tail as he passed into tawny fields where other women peered at him over growths of buckwheat and barley, which they were at work harvesting with scythes.†   (source)
  • He'd never grown immune to the comet tail of double takes and curious glances he dragged behind him, but tonight it felt unbearable.†   (source)
  • I stumbled down the street, the comet tail in my eyes, seeing a little better now and looking back to see the water spraying like a mad geyser in the moonlight.†   (source)
  • In my final year at Healdtown, an event occurred that for me was like a comet streaking across the night sky.†   (source)
  • When he looked up he discovered that the comets of snow, the dazzling spray, and the singing of the wind in the sun were right above him.†   (source)
  • She needed the time, yet she wished the train would go faster; but it was the Taggart Comet, the fastest train in the country.†   (source)
  • I swear, I thought it was a comet.†   (source)
  • He reached for the elevator call button, but before his finger touched it, the doors slid open of their own accord, and Isabelle seemed to almost explode through them, her silvery-gold whip trailing behind her like the tail of a comet.†   (source)
  • But this is not the smell of Comet or Windex.†   (source)
  • He recognized his old desperation coming around, a personal comet.†   (source)
  • He rode looking straight ahead, a crowd beginning to trail out after him like the tail of a comet.†   (source)
  • The most dangerous were comets which, despite having the essential consistency of a slushee, moved very fast and were generally very big.†   (source)
  • With the cameras rolling, he walks toward the center describing Einstein's general theory of relativity and goes into some facts—black holes are the remnants of former stars; they're so dense that not even light can escape; they lurk inside every galaxy; they're the most destructive force in the cosmos; as a black hole passes through space, it engulfs everything that comes too close to it, stars, comets, planets.†   (source)
  • I am neither internee nor informer; An inner émigré, a grown long-haired And thoughtful; a wood-kerne Escaped from the massacre, Taking protective colouring From bole and bark, feeling Every wind that blows; Who, blowing up these sparks For their meagre heat, have missed The once in a lifetime portent, The comet's pulsing rose.†   (source)
  • For three or four minutes I had a name, and the duties and joys and frustrations a man carries with him like a comet's tail.†   (source)
  • Meteors broke fire above his head, and comets inscribed blazing arcs upon a vault of black glass.†   (source)
  • Though I was always waked for eclipses, and indeed carried to the window as an infant in arms and shown Halley's Comet in my sleep, and though I'd been taught at our diningroom table about the solar system and knew the earth revolved around the sun, andour moon around us, I never found out the moon didn't come up in the west until I was a writer and Herschel Brickell, the literary critic, told me after I misplaced it in a story.†   (source)
  • BOLLINGER (Running on, carrying his comet) Station master says old 94's on time out of Chattanooga.†   (source)
  • The bush boy had never seen such hair, sand-coloured and trailing like the comet that rides the midnight sky.†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [to JEAN] Went past like a comet!†   (source)
  • But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.†   (source)
  • 'And I'm still riding a Comet Two Sixty' said Tonks enviously.†   (source)
  • The musket ball streaked out of the barrel like a comet, trailing flames and smoke.†   (source)
  • Blackjack folded his wings and plummeted toward the boat like a black comet.†   (source)
  • I was a comet hurtling toward the earth.†   (source)
  • Images of stars, comets, and planets twinkled in the falling rain, but Langdon ignored them.†   (source)
  • The glowing iron streaked in front of my face like a comet.†   (source)
  • "I'll give you the Comet of 1812," Anna said.†   (source)
  • Next moment, what seemed to be a great green-and-gold comet came zooming into the stadium.†   (source)
  • The first star was a comet, burning red.†   (source)
  • A fiery golden comet crossed her path ....maybe her brother Apollo.†   (source)
  • But comets are slow, whereas radio waves are fast.†   (source)
  • Originally, it was spread around on comets.†   (source)
  • Blue lights were streaking across the evening sky toward Olympus like tiny comets.†   (source)
  • On the morrow, on the new moon, when the red comet comes again?†   (source)
  • The priest had dreamed the same dream, when first he'd seen the red comet in the sky.†   (source)
  • Never mind about comets, it's maps the Old Bear wants.†   (source)
  • That was before the war or the red comet, before I was a Sea worth or a knight.†   (source)
  • All the onagers fired at once, and six golden comets billowed into the sky.†   (source)
  • No red comet blazed across the heavens to herald their coming.†   (source)
  • The smallfolk have named it King Joffrey's Comet.†   (source)
  • The comet was due to appear any moment now.†   (source)
  • ANGELO VENETTI: That was no comet—that was a bomb inside the plane.†   (source)
  • But Max would not let go, clutching the searing shape as though it were a runaway comet.†   (source)
  • A comet is something that is mostly ice, meaning solid water, ammonia, et cetera.†   (source)
  • There's been a comet coming every year for two thousand years.†   (source)
  • Just before Jason blacked out, the comet intercepted the ball of fire above them.†   (source)
  • It was undiscovered country, as wide as the Grand Canyon, as distant as Halley's Comet.†   (source)
  • By the time tonight's Comet Teaches Kirby, Nebraska, the track will be ready.†   (source)
  • The comet disappeared behind the western hills.†   (source)
  • The Dothraki named the comet shierak qiya, the Bleeding Star.†   (source)
  • The engineer will be Pat Logan, of the Taggart Comet, the fireman-Ray McKim.†   (source)
  • Just a reminder about the comet viewing, as if we could forget!†   (source)
  • Hundreds of feet they fell, trailing fire like a comet.†   (source)
  • So how are we going to stuff the comet in the hole?†   (source)
  • The winter I was six, we made a special trip to visit her for the comet's passing.†   (source)
  • He jabbed his bony finger back at comet and castle.†   (source)
  • The augur's scream faded until he was simply part of the fiery comet soaring skyward.†   (source)
  • It was the comet that always made her seem that much more mystical, different.†   (source)
  • the comet will melt and then, well, boil.†   (source)
  • "This is the Taggart Comet," said Eddie Willers, choking.†   (source)
  • If he'd counted correctly, then the comet was meant to appear tonight.†   (source)
  • They didn't get enough of the mass of the comet into the asteroid.†   (source)
  • "Yes," I said, "she was born in May of 1910, when the comet was coming through.†   (source)
  • "We follow the comet," Dany told her khalasar.†   (source)
  • But his heart sank as the comet kept gaining altitude.†   (source)
  • He looked at the lights of the tunnel, then at the long chain of the Comet's windows.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it is my comet, he thought drowsily at the last, just before sleep took him.†   (source)
  • She asked involuntarily, "Did the Comet reach San Francisco?"†   (source)
  • They keep blowing the comet off for that matter.†   (source)
  • She was born in May of 1910, as Halley's Comet lit up the sky of her small town in Virginia.†   (source)
  • Some of the passengers aboard the Comet were awake.†   (source)
  • Do you know how hard it is to steer a comet?†   (source)
  • She could create anything, even a comet, and make it dance before your eyes.†   (source)
  • The thing in the sky is a comet, sweet child.†   (source)
  • "I thought you were mining this," Steve said, looking at the comet parked next to the asteroid.†   (source)
  • That one has superiority over everything on the line, including the Comet, by order of the Army.†   (source)
  • But I knew when I told her about the comet, years from now, I would know.†   (source)
  • Above, the comet blazed red and malevolent.†   (source)
  • Now we're going to suck the comet into the hole.†   (source)
  • Send the Comet through safely and without unnecessary delay.†   (source)
  • This comet is sent to herald Joffrey's ascent to the throne, I have no doubt.†   (source)
  • The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.†   (source)
  • They say the red comet is a herald of a new age.†   (source)
  • The comet's about a hundred meters, right?†   (source)
  • The conductor stood by the rear end of the Comet.†   (source)
  • He cupped his hands around his mouth and lifted his head to the comet.†   (source)
  • The comet is five hundred thousand cubic meters.†   (source)
  • He had to get the Comet out of here, he thought.†   (source)
  • It was an old steam engine, the best that the railroad had been able to provide for the Comet.†   (source)
  • Comets are mostly what we would call air.†   (source)
  • The comet was splendid and scary all at once.†   (source)
  • The comet mocks my hopes, she thought, lifting her eyes to where it scored the sky.†   (source)
  • The way that asteroids and comets are detected has to do with the way that stars are viewed.†   (source)
  • ....Have them hold the Comet for me...Yes, tonight's Comet.†   (source)
  • "Don't abandon the Comet!" cried Eddie Willers.†   (source)
  • Shouldn't the gods have sent Joff a golden comet?†   (source)
  • At night they camped beneath a starry sky and gazed up at the comet.†   (source)
  • He looked at the Comet as it came slowly toward him.†   (source)
  • Have them meet me in my car aboard the Comet.†   (source)
  • If I flew high enough, I could even see the Seven Kingdoms, and reach up and touch the comet.†   (source)
  • That night she lay upon her thin blanket on the hard ground, staring up at the great red comet.†   (source)
  • I never heard of the Comet being held up!†   (source)
  • She was near blind and could not see the comet, yet she claimed she could smell it.†   (source)
  • A is A. The locomotive of the eastbound Comet broke down in the middle of a desert in Arizona.†   (source)
  • It was dark amongst the trees, but the comet lit his way, and his feet were sure.†   (source)
  • But we can't keep the Comet waiting on a siding all night!†   (source)
  • The Comet, none the less, was so ordered to proceed.†   (source)
  • What is known is that the Freight Special crashed into the rear of the Comet.†   (source)
  • He thought of the passengers-the three hundred passengers aboard the Comet.†   (source)
  • Call the Taggart trainmaster at Laurel, report the Comet's delay and explain to him what happened.†   (source)
  • The Comet is stalled seven miles north of here.†   (source)
  • I'll undertake to remain in charge for you and to deliver the Comet to your man at Laurel.†   (source)
  • After two hours, many complaints, and several tantrums, one involving a crashed Comet Two Sixty and several broken teeth, Harry had found himself three Chasers: Katie Bell, returned to the team after an excellent trial; a new find called Demelza Robins, who was particularly good at dodging Bludgers; and Ginny Weasley, who had outflown all the competition and scored seventeen goals to boot.†   (source)
  • It did one circuit of the stadium, then split into two smaller comets, each hurtling toward the goal posts.†   (source)
  • Another comet hurtled toward us.†   (source)
  • When you think the Comet Two Ninety's only nought to sixty and that's with a decent tailwind according to Which Broomstick?'†   (source)
  • I will not try to describe the beauty of life in a Swarm-their zero-gravity globe cities and comet farms and thrust clusters, their micro-orbital forests and migrating rivers and the ten thousand colors and textures of life at Rendezvous Week.†   (source)
  • Potter's really putting it through its paces now, see it turn —Chang's Comet is just no match for it, the Firebolt's precision— balance is really noticeable in these long —†   (source)
  • Yes, comet.†   (source)
  • Comet?†   (source)
  • Did you really see the Comet of 1812?†   (source)
  • The massive orb protruding from the face of the pyramid was carved in basso-relievo and depicted all kinds of heavenly bodies—constellations, signs of the zodiac, comets, stars, and planets.†   (source)
  • The Ousters had been the single external threat to the Hegemony for the four centuries since the forebears of the barbarian hordes had left Sol System in their crude fleet of leaking O'Neill cities, tumbling asteroids, and experimental comet farm clusters.†   (source)
  • This may be just a basic principle of nature, like Darwinian selection, or it may be an actual piece of information that floats around the universe on comets and radio waves-I'm not sure.†   (source)
  • She was named for the comet.†   (source)
  • She looked around and :realized that every object on this vast plain had grown a vaporous comet's tail—all pointing toward Tartarus.†   (source)
  • Huge flares raced overhead from the citadel, screaming past like crimson comets to burst over the outer walls and signal that those forces should pull back.†   (source)
  • Okay then, let's say you knew that a comet was going to wipe out Earth, but you were sworn to secrecy by the president of the United States because he didn't want to start a panic.†   (source)
  • As they got closer, they sent fiery comets and bolts of lightning toward the pyramid; but each blast dissipated harmlessly against its stone slopes, consumed in the red haze of Set's power.†   (source)
  • I was literally up to my elbows in Comet, scrubbing the floor of the bathtub, when the doorbell rang.†   (source)
  • With three bounding steps, she leaped onto Shruikan's left forefoot, and from there flung herself toward the side of his head, trailing fire like a comet.†   (source)
  • I went with a small white koi, which looked panicked as I held it in its plastic bag, circling again and again as Jamie picked out a total of twenty shubunkins and comets.†   (source)
  • I stumbled about in circles, blindly swinging the brief case, the image of a fiery comet's tail burning my smarting lids; turning and swinging blindly with brief case and leg chain and hearing the gallop begin as I floundered helplessly; and now moving straight into the full, naked force of the water, feeling its power like a blow, wet and thudding and cold, then through it and able partly to see just as another horse dashed up and through, a hunter taking a barrier, the rider slanting backward, the horse rising, then hit and swallowed by the rising spray.†   (source)
  • I never delighted much in contemplating commas and colons, or in spelling or measuring syllables; but now ....if I attempt to look at these little objects, I find my imagination, in spite of all my exertions, roaming in the Milky Way, among the nebulae, those mighty orbs, and stupendous orbits of suns, planets, satellites, and comets, which compose the incomprehensible universe; and if I do not sink into nothing in my own estimation, I feel an irresistible impulse to fall on my knees, in adoration of the power that moves, the wisdom that directs, and the benevolence that sanctifies this wonderful whole.†   (source)
  • Bob stumbled, the wispy comet tail of his life force growing longer as it was sucked toward the face of the god.†   (source)
  • "This is not just a superstition or a myth," he said, and then cited evidence from astronomers that at that time in history there was a comet that followed the path outlined in the Bible.†   (source)
  • He shared my belief when he was young, but later he became persuaded that it was his own son who fulfilled the prophecy, for a comet had been seen above King's Landing on the night Aegon was conceived, and Rhaegar was certain the bleeding star had to be a comet.†   (source)
  • In rows all around us were more tanks, also filled with fish I'd never heard of before: comets, shubunkin, mosquito fish, as well as many other colors of koi, some solid, some speckled with black or red.†   (source)
  • The hellish red comets that had cut the predawn blackness reappeared in the sky, intermixed with streaks of white: tracers; shells from the offshore destroyers (more than ten thousand rounds); phosphorous "star shells" to provide bursts of white light; searchlights to keep Suribachi illuminated; parachute flares that made a Poof!†   (source)
  • With a top cruising speed of 480 miles per hour, the Comet is 50% faster than propeller aircraft such as the DC-6, and its proponents say it provides smoother and quieter travel.†   (source)
  • The red comet blazed across the sky to herald his coming, and he bears Lightbringer, the red sword of heroes.†   (source)
  • MAY 3—While Elizabeth awaits the CAB verdict on the reopening of Newark Airport, a new era of airplane travel began today with the flight of a British De Havilland Comet jet airliner from London to Johannesburg, South Africa.†   (source)
  • The red comet was your herald.†   (source)
  • It sounded like a comet.†   (source)
  • As the comet's trail faded into blackness, Bellamy hurried back down the slope, eager to get back before Octavia woke up and realized he'd gone.†   (source)
  • Then, in the corner of Jason's eye, a blazing comet streaked upward from the ground with a high-pitched, almost human scream.†   (source)
  • She'd been trying on gowns for two hours, and they were no closer to picking one for the comet viewing party than when they'd started.†   (source)
  • Gaea had been separated from her source of power, charmed to sleep, and then atomized in the combined explosion of Leo's fire and Octavian's manmade comet.†   (source)
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