 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1857 - 586 pages
...about three o'clock in the morning to see the shooting stars, as they are called. The phenomenon was grand and awful. The whole heavens appeared as if...sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun toward daybreak. The meteors, which at any one instant of time appeared as numerous as the stars, flew... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...about three o'clock in the morning, to see the shooting stars, ns they are called. The phenomenon was grand and awful. The whole heavens appeared as if...numerous as the stars, flew in all possible directions, exceptfrom theearth, towards which theyall inclined more or less ; and some of them descended perpendicularly... | |
 | 1864 - 484 pages
...shooting of the stars, (as it is commonly called). The phenomenon was grand and awful ; the whole heaven appeared as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which...light of the sun after daybreak. The meteors, which nt any one instant of time appeared as numerous as the stars, flew in all possible directions, except... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1873 - 336 pages
...about three o'clock in the morning to see the shooting stars, as they are called. The phenomenon was grand and awful. The whole heavens appeared as if...illuminated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only with the light of the sun towards daybreak. The meteors, which at any one instant of time appeared... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - 1877 - 968 pages
...up about 3 o'clock in the morning, to see the shooting stars, as they are called. The phenomenon was grand and awful. The whole heavens appeared as if...instant of time appeared as numerous as the stars, flaw in all possible directions, except from the Earth, towards which they were all inclined more or... | |
 | William Guy Peck - 1883 - 406 pages
...Ellicott, who witnessed the display from a vessel in the Gulf of Mexico, says: "The phenomenon was grand and awful. The whole heavens appeared as if...illuminated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only with the light of the sun, after daybreak. The meteors, which at any one instant of time appeared as... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - 1889 - 758 pages
...the shooting stars, as it is commonly called. The phenomenon was grand and awful; the whole heaven appeared as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which...at any one instant of time appeared as numerous as t lie stars, flew in all possible directions, except from the Earth, toward which they all inclined... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - 1889 - 736 pages
...the shooting stars, as it IB commonly called. The phenomenon was grand and awful; the whole heaven appeared as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which...disappeared only by the light of the Sun after daybreak. The meteon, which at any one instant of time appeared an numerous as the stars, flew in all possible directions,... | |
 | 1897 - 516 pages
...at about 3 o'clock in the morning to see the shootingstars, as they are called. The phenomenon was grand and awful. The whole heavens appeared as if...after daybreak. The meteors, which at any one instant appeared as numerous as the stars, flew in all possible directions except from the Earth, towards which... | |
 | 1897 - 524 pages
...at about 3 o'clock in the morning to see the shootingstars, as they are called. The phenomenon was grand and awful. The whole heavens appeared as if...after daybreak. The meteors, which at any one instant appeared as numerous as the stars, flew in all possible directions except from the Earth, towards which... | |
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I was called up," says Mr. Ellicou, " about 3 o'clock in the morning, to see the shooting stars, as they are called. The phenomenon was grand and awful. The whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with skyrockets, which disappeared only by the light... 
