He finds it hard to forget that until recently all manner of climatic conditions were associated with phases of the moon; that not so very long ago showers of falling-stars were considered "prognostic" of certain kinds of weather; and that the "equinoctial storm" had been accepted as a verity by every one, until the unfeeling hand of statistics banished it from the earth. ❋ Unknown (1904)
Some light was thrown on the moot point presently by the observations of Brandes and Benzenberg, which tended to show that falling-stars travel at an actual speed of from fifteen to ninety miles a second. ❋ Unknown (1904)
With respect to the falling-stars themselves, it appears to me, from my own experience, that they are more frequent in the equinoctial regions than in the temperate zone; and more frequent above continents, and near certain coasts, than in the middle of the ocean. ❋ Unknown (1851)
It may be admitted that, in the first revolutions of the globe, gaseous substances, which yet remain unknown to us, have risen towards that region through which the falling-stars pass; but accurate experiments, made upon mixtures of gases which have not the same specific gravity, show that there is no reason for supposing a superior stratum of the atmosphere entirely different from the inferior strata. ❋ Unknown (1851)
Maroa, * on the banks of the Rio Negro; had seen numberless falling-stars and bolides illumine the heavens. ❋ Unknown (1851)
The Indians, who seldom ennoble by their expressions the wanderings of the imagination, name the falling-stars the urine; and the dew the spittle of the stars. ❋ Unknown (1851)
In the city of Quito there was seen in one part of the sky, above the volcano of Cayamba, such great numbers of falling-stars, that the mountain was thought to be in flames. ❋ Unknown (1851)
This extremely remarkable circumstance has led to the conclusion, that falling-stars are not aerolites which, after having hovered a long time in space, unite on accidentally entering into our atmosphere, and fall towards the earth. ❋ Unknown (1851)
These difficulties would in great part be removed, if the direction of the movement of falling-stars allowed us to consider them as bodies with a solid nucleus, as cosmic phenomena (belonging to space beyond the limits of our atmosphere), and not as telluric phenomena (belonging to our planet only). ❋ Unknown (1851)
November, between the hours of six and seven in the morning (half-past two at Cumana), some falling-stars which shed a very white light. ❋ Unknown (1851)
We had some hope of being able to make an astronomical observation, as falling-stars of remarkable magnitude were visible through the vapours that veiled the sky; whence we concluded that the stratum of vapours must be very thin, since meteors of this kind have scarcely ever been seen below a cloud. ❋ Unknown (1851)
Farther, if we admit the existence of particular aerial fluids in the inaccessible regions of luminous meteors, of falling-stars, bolides, and the Aurora Borealis; how can we conceive why the whole stratum of those fluids does not at once ignite, but that the gaseous emanations, like the clouds, occupy only limited spaces? ❋ Unknown (1851)
Portuguese in Brazil and the missionaries in Labrador; but at the same time it cannot be doubted (and this fact appears to me very remarkable) that in the New World, between the meridians of 46 and 82°, between the equator and 64° north, at the same hour, an immense number of bolides and falling-stars were perceived; and that those meteors had everywhere the same brilliancy, throughout a space of 921,000 square leagues. ❋ Unknown (1851)
In Italy for instance, the sirocco and earthquakes are suspected to have some connection; and in London, the frequency of falling-stars, and those southern lights which have since been often observed by Mr. Dalton, were considered as the forerunners of those shocks which were felt from 1748 to 1756. ❋ Unknown (1851)
There are months in which M. Brandes has reckoned in our temperate zone only sixty or eighty falling-stars in one night; and in other months their number has risen to two thousand. ❋ Unknown (1851)
[* According to the observations which I made on the ridge of the Andes, at an elevation of 2700 toises, on the moutons, or little white fleecy clouds, it appeared to me, that their elevation is sometimes not less than 6000 toises above the level of the coast.] [* M. Chladni, who at first considered falling-stars to be aerolites, subsequently abandoned that idea.] ❋ Unknown (1851)
It would seem, that in the higher regions of the atmosphere, near that extreme limit where the centrifugal force is balanced by gravity, there exists at regular periods a particular disposition for the production of bolides, falling-stars, and the Aurora Borealis. ❋ Unknown (1851)
Supposing the meteors of Cumana to have been only at the usual height at which falling-stars in general move, the same meteors were seen above the horizon in places more than 310 leagues distant from each other. ❋ Unknown (1851)
Astronomers who have lately been directing minute attention to falling-stars and their parallaxes, consider them as meteors belonging to the farthest limits of our atmosphere, between the region of the Aurora ❋ Unknown (1851)
The disappearance of one of those lunar halos was followed by the formation of a great black cloud, from which fell some drops of rain; but the sky soon resumed its fixed serenity, and we saw a long series of falling-stars and bolides which moved in one direction and contrary to that of the wind of the lower strata. ❋ Unknown (1851)
I wish we could watch the [Gilmore girls], but Brian messed up the [screen] with his [falling star]. ❋ Meatman (2006)
Person 1: Have you [read in] the newspaper that this guy [conquered] all of his biggest fears and revealed all of his secrets to the public in order for his crush to accept having him as her boyfriend?
Person 2: Wow, so it is true that love makes you [as brave as a falling star]. ❋ Dasland (2021)
I was [prowling] the hospital last night when I [came across] this hot chick and I totally [Alabama] falling stared her. ❋ Dangerous Mcsleet (2010)
[Jay]: dude why were you screaming so loud at that party last night
Tyler: dude, because fucking [Bobby] was Stars Falling me man, i couldn't [handle it]! ❋ Casey Bishop (2008)
You said she didn't like him? Well, big stars falling ['cause] I just seen them out [together] on [a date]. ❋ Chris From Hawaii (2020)
