How To Use fixed star In A Sentence
- A fixed star burns the edges of frayed identity.
- As he spoke the sunglasses never moved from their fixed stare on Martin, even as he struggled to reach for the phone on the desk with his unwounded hand.
- See a lovely passage on the subject of bathing in Sir Philip Sydney's "Arcadia," where "Philoclea, blushing, and withal smiling, makeing shamefastnesse pleasant, and pleasure shamefast, tenderly moved her feet, unwonted to feel the naked ground, until the touch of the cold water made a pretty kind of shrugging come over her body; like the twinkling of the fairest among the fixed stars. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827
- Now if we use a system of co-ordinates which is rigidly attached to the earth, then, relative to this system, every fixed star describes a circle of immense radius in the course of an astronomical day, a result which is opposed to the statement of the law of inertia. Chapter 4. The Galileian System of Co-ordinates
- I must make it clear that postcolonialism has no fixed starting date.
- Thus if the fixed star Regulus culminates on the Midheaven as Mercury rises on the ascendant it is referred to as a paran of Mercury and considered to have an influence upon its meaning.
- Religious uranography placed the residence of the supreme divinity in the most elevated region of the world, fixing its abode in the zone most distant from the earth, above the planets and the fixed stars. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
- The fixed stars which enamel and bespangle the concave expanse, or canopy of heaven, by numbers and lustre, make the night beauteous and delightful, which would otherwise be dark and horrible. A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
- Their fixed stare disconcerted me; I rose, and, leaning on my husband's arm, again mingled in the brilliant circle. Memoirs of Mary Robinson
- Holst's figurant represents humanity exposed to the occult powers of the unfixed stars as they orbit through the twelve astrological houses of the zodiac.