 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1873 - 360 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...in all possible directions except from the earth, toward which they all inclined more or less, and some of them descendi-d perpendicularly over the vessel... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - Astronomy - 1877 - 968 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 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 - Astronomy - 1883 - 406 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...in all possible directions, except from the earth, to war ds which they were all inclined, more or less; and some of them descended perpendicularly over... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - Astronomy - 1887 - 886 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...in, so that I was in constant expectation of their filling on us." Mocha, in the ship Restitution, gives the following account of it: " From one o'clock... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - Astronomical instruments - 1889 - 758 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 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 - Astronomical instruments - 1889 - 736 pages
...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, except from the Earth, toward which they all inclined more or less ; and some of them descended perpendicularly over the vessel... | |
 | Astronomy - 1897 - 516 pages
...which disappeared only by the light of the sun 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 they were all inclined more or less, and some of them descended perpendicularly over the vessel I was in,... | |
 | Astronomy - 1897 - 524 pages
...which disappeared only by the light of the sun 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 they were all inclined more or less, and some of them descended perpendicularly over the vessel I was in,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1899 - 628 pages
...by sky rockets which disappeared only by the light of the sun after daybreak. The meteors, which at one instant of time appeared as numerous as the stars,...directions, except from the earth, towards which they inclined more or less, and some of them descended perpendicularly over the vessel I was in, so that... | |
 | Charles Pollard Olivier - Meteors - 1925 - 358 pages
...disappeared only by the light of the sun after daybreak. The meteors which appeared at any one instant as numerous as the stars, flew in all possible directions, except from the earth toward which they all inclined more or less; and some of them descended perpendicularly over the vessel... | |
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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,... 
