How To Use Pleiades In A Sentence
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The Pleiades are mentioned in Chinese annals in 2357 B.C.
A Field Book of the Stars
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Pleiades, in the penultimate antelucan hour, shod in sandals of bright gold, coifed with a veil of what do you call it gossamer.
Ulysses
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Indeed all the region about the Pleiades, for an area of ten square degrees, is involved in streaky nebulosity.
Photographing the Sky
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There's another reason why you might not spot the Pleiades cluster.
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This digitally fused panorama was captured earlier this month from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, and includes the Pleiades open cluster of stars just to the upper right of the Moon.
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The star cluster of the Pleiades is located at 28 degrees Taurus.
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Alcyone, the brightest star of the Pleiades, is many times bigger than our sun.
Photographing the Sky
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If I find out that someone used to call themself Christian but dropped their faith because they originally believed that God was a purely anthropomorphic individual residing in the Pleiades star system and have since come to believe that the Pleiades is uninhabited, I'm not committing a fallacy by questioning whether they truly had a handle on Christianity.
Blind Faith?
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The cup-boy is a sun rising from the dark underworld symbolised by his collar; his cheek-mole is a crumb of ambergris, his nose is a scymitar grided at the curve; his lower lip is a jujube; his teeth are the Pleiades or hailstones; his browlocks are scorpions; his young hair on the upper lip is an emerald; his side beard is a swarm of ants or a Lám
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Greek mythology a giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis; was then placed in the sky as a constellation.
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It looks almost like a cluster, and I have known unwary observers to confuse it with the Pleiades.
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Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
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the cluster" or "company," -- the group we know as the Pleiades, -- is mentioned in Scripture; and in each case it is associated with _Kĕsīl_,
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture
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There another reason why you might not spot the Pleiades cluster.
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Consequently, in recognition of this benefaction, painters and sculptors represent him as holding up the firmament, and the Atlantides, his daughters, whom we call "Vergiliae" and the Greeks [Greek: Pleiades], are consecrated in the firmament among the constellations.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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This season being marked by the acronical rising of the Pleiades, that group has become associated with such observances.
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture
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Carried along with the grand revolution of the sky, the Pleiades were moving towards the West.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Greek mythology a giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis; was then placed in the sky as a constellation.
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Schall gave him the word "Pleiades" and asked for a poem.
KansasCity.com: Front Page
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It looks almost like a cluster, and I have known unwary observers to confuse it with the Pleiades.
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The Pleiades star cluster is also called the Seven Sisters.
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There are three conspicuous clusters in the northern sky that are visible to the naked eye -- viz. the Pleiades in Taurus, the Great Cluster in the sword-handle of Perseus, and Praesepe in Cancer, commonly called the Beehive.
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
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It is rather striking that when referring to the Pleiades, the Bible uses the verb “to bind,” as if the stars were linked together with threads—something that cannot be observed with the naked eye—and that in the next sentence it maintains precisely the opposite about the Orion.
Modern Science in the Bible
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Here they would sit like bumps on a log until midnight, and then, when the constellation which we call the Pleiades came exactly overhead, the danger was over.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated
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The Pleiades are approximately 440 light-years away and the Hyades are about one-third that distance: 150 light-years.
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The Pleiades is a nebulous cluster of stars, all contained within one degree of longitude, located on the shoulder of the Bull.
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In his videotaped lectures, Biltz focuses on a star called Arcturus, which is mentioned in the Old Testament Book of Job: "Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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Distant bodies like the Pleiades were recorded with great clarity.
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But what is more remarkable, and which shows that this fable cannot be that of a Jew, is, that three constellations are spoken of, which we now call Arcturus, Orion, and the Pleiades.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The Winkler Prins encyclopedia of astronomy writes, “The Pleiades is a star cluster … and consists of over 3,000 stars, which are situated in the middle of reflection nebulae.”
Modern Science in the Bible
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Still Doll was thankful for the safe subject, as he went on to mark out what he promised that she should see in the winter -- the swarm of glow-worms, as he called the Pleiades; and 'Our Lady's Rock, 'namely, distaff, the northern name for Orion; and then he talked of the stars that so perplexed him, namely, the planets, that never stayed in their places.
The Herd Boy and His Hermit
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A reporter named Tor Pleiades is traveling aboard a dirigible headed for a port near a major political conference (involving an otherwise irrelevant alien artifact that may of may not represent first contact).
REVIEW: Jim Baen's Universe #11
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About the equinox, and until the season of the Pleiades, and at the approach of winter, many ardent fevers set in; but great numbers at that season were seized with phrenitis, and many died; a few cases also occurred during the summer.
Of The Epidemics
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How serene does she now arise, a queen among the Pleiades, in the penultimate antelucan hour, shod in sandals of bright gold, coifed with a veil of what do you call it gossamer.
Ulysses
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Yes, there is, and some people may not realise that yes, that there was an ancient constellation of the lyre, which was originally called the Lyre of the Pleiades.
