 | Harry Frank Howard - Bible - 1910 - 262 pages
...has not been precisely ascertained; but it covers no inconsiderable portion of the earth's surface. The first appearance was that of fireworks of the...myriads of fireballs, resembling sky-rockets. Their coruscations were bright, gleaming and incessant, and they fell thick as flakes in the early snows... | |
 | Bible - 1912 - 136 pages
...been precisely ascertained; but it covered no inconsiderable portion of the earth's surface. . . . The first appearance was that of fireworks of the...myriads of fire-balls, resembling sky-rockets. Their coruscations were bright, gleaming, and incessant, and they fell thick as the flakes in the early snows... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1835 - 360 pages
...America, nor in any part of the Pacific ocean yet heard from. Every where within the above named limits, the first appearance was that of fire-works of the...with myriads of fire-balls resembling sky-rockets. On more attentive inspection it was seen, that the metcors exhibited three distinct varieties ; the... | |
 | Medicine - 1834 - 700 pages
...six, more than a thousand per minute might have been counted. Their coruscations were bright, gleamy and incessant, and they fell thick as the flakes in the early snows of December. In one instance we distinctly heard the explosion of a meteor, that shot across the north-west, leaving... | |
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The first appearance was that of fireworks of the most imposing grandeur, covering the entire vault of heaven with myriads of fireballs, resembling skyrockets. 
