How To Use Fixed star In A Sentence
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A fixed star burns the edges of frayed identity.
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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.
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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
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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
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I must make it clear that postcolonialism has no fixed starting date.
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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.
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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
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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
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Their fixed stare disconcerted me; I rose, and, leaning on my husband's arm, again mingled in the brilliant circle.
Memoirs of Mary Robinson
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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.
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The fixed stars overgo Saturn, and so in them and the rest all is but one motion, and the nearer the earth the slower; a motion also whereof air and water do participate, though much interrupted.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
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Ptolemy's findings were that the earth was a fixed, inert, immovable mass, located at the centre of the universe, and all celestial bodies, including the sun and the fixed stars, revolved around it.
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1612 – Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
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What they are probably thinking is that the imaginary line mentioned above from the earth to the sun sweeps out a full circle in one year; this is called a sidereal year: the time it takes for the sun to appear in the same place against the backdrop of the fixed stars.
A Great Leap…Forward?
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Thus after seventy-two years the colure of the vernal equinox which passed through a fixed star, corresponds with another fixed star.
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This is because it serves as the fixed starting point for liturgical commentary, a kind of frozen caste of mind that is unshaken by any reality.
The Hidden Politics of Liturgical Commentary
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Plato describes the soul as composed of two circles with contrary motions, which imitate the contrary motions of the fixed stars and the planets, so that the soul becomes a sort of orrery in the head.
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The scientific controversy is beyond me, but I can recognize the fixed stare, the strained voice-throb and the rigid jaw of a madman at a hundred paces.
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It is an established convention to speak of the fixed stars as a standard reference frame.
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In the study of the fixed stars Secchi distinguished himself not only by the invention of new instruments (heliospectroscope, star spectroscope, telespectroscope), but especially by the discovery of what are known as the five Secchi types of stars deduced from about 4000 spectra of stars, on which he had been at work since 1863.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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And it's equally true now, even though satellites have taken over from sextants, the Sun and fixed stars as the navigation aids of choice.
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Thus after seventy-two years the colure of the vernal equinox which passed through a fixed star, corresponds with another fixed star.
Letter XVII-On Infinites in Geometry, and Sir Isaac Newton’s Chronology
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Third, the planet brightness stabilizes very much, the sort can not glimmer like fixed star indeterminate.
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Kawa Kendi, a man in early middle age, powerful and lithe-limbed, sat as motionless as the King, his father, staring, as did all, with the fixed stare of the anagogic.
Witch-Doctors
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The next of the fixed stars and the brightest in all the heavens is that which we call _Sirius_ or the Dog Star.
Marvels of Modern Science
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Fixed stars continued to be used as reference points throughout the Middle Ages, and even Copernicus measured positions in a sidereal zodiac beginning from the fixed star Mesartim.