Satellites
['sætl,laɪts]
Examples
- For the best part of one winter night himself and satellites were busied about Moore. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was able to make out the mountains in the moon, the satellites of Jupiter in rotation, the spots on the revolving sun; but his telescope afforded only an imperfect view of Saturn. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- And the more detestable his actions are to the citizens the more satellites and the greater devotion in them will he require? Plato. The Republic.
- As Fries has well remarked, little groups of species are generally clustered like satellites around other species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He did not agree with Wright that t hey, or the cloudy areas, would prove to be stars or small satellites, but rather that both co nsisted of vapor particles. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Meanwhile the sun, disencumbered from his strange satellites, paced with its accustomed majesty towards its western home. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In the case of Sa turn there was such regularity in the rings that the annular form was maintained; as a rule from the zones abandon ed by the planet-mass satellites resulted. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Galileo had named the satellites of Jupiter after the house of Medici, to which this Duke belonged, and Cosimo was much flattered at the compliment. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Even then I would have followed her; but my foe and his satellites entered; I was surrounded, and taken prisoner. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Discovery of Satellites of Mars by Professor Asaph Hall, and its so-called Canals by Schiaparelli. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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