 | 1854 - 602 pages
...heavens appeared as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun atler day-break. The meteors, which at any one instant of time appeared as numerous as the stare, flew in all possible directions, except from the earth, toward which they all inclined more... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 878 pages
...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...perpendicularly over the vessel we were in, so that we were in constant dread of their falling on us." The same appearances were observed on the same night... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1857 - 624 pages
...appeared as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun toward daybreak. The meteors, which at any one instant of...in all possible directions, except from the earth, toward which they all inclined, more or less ; and some of them descended perpendicularly over the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1857 - 586 pages
...appeared as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun toward daybreak. The meteors, which at any one instant of...in all possible directions, except from the earth, toward which they all inclined, more or less ; and some of them descended perpendicularly over the... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun after daybreak. The meteors, which at any one...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 - 968 pages
...whole heaven appeared as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun after daybreak. The meteors, which at any one...in all possible directions, except from the earth, toward which they all inclined more or less " 1 Personal Narrative of Travels to the Eguinoetial Regiom;... | |
 | Science - 1864 - 484 pages
...with sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun after daybreak. The meteors, which nt any one instant of time appeared as numerous as the...in all possible directions, except from the earth, toward which they all inclined more or less. . . ." 3 Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1864 - 554 pages
...says the meteors "flew about in all possible directions, except from the earth, toward which they were all inclined, more or less ; and some of them descended perpendicularly over the vessel in which we were, so that I was in constant expectation of their falling on us." But the most recent... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - Astronomy - 1867 - 888 pages
...whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the Sun after daybreak. The meteors, which at any one...directions, except from the Earth, towards which they were all inclined more or less j and some of them descended perpendicularly over the vessel we were... | |
 | Edwin Dunkin - 1869 - 380 pages
...whole heaven appeared as if illuminated by sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun after daybreak. The meteors, which at any one...Earth, towards which they all inclined more or less." This shower was visible partially in England and in Greenland. In November, 1833, Mr. Olmsted and another... | |
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I was called up to see the shooting of the stars, as it is commonly called. The phenomenon was grand and awful ; the whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun after day-break. The meteors,... 
