Constellations

Examples

• By t he Egyptians, also, was carefully observed the season of the year at which certain stars and constellations were visible at dawn. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• For a time hunger and sleep contended, till the constellations reeled before my eyes and then were lost. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Most of us, indeed, know little of the great originators until they have been lifted up among the constellations and already rule our fates. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She waited till the rising of certain constellations warned her of lateness and signed her away. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She did not know I was standing in the twilight, near the staircase window, looking at the frost-bright constellations. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• No moon was yet in the heavens, but the dark blue vault was bright with innumerable stars, large and mellow, like tropical constellations. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The Egyptian priests had mapped out the stars into the constellations, and divided up the zodiac into twelve signs, by 3000 B.C. . H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This classification is not arbitrary like the grouping of the stars in constellations. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The constellations reeled swiftly by, swiftly each tree and stone and landmark fled past my onward career. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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