Shooting Star

Even if the iPad follows the same shooting-star sales pattern as some of Apple's previous new-to-the-world product offers -- a flash of excitement followed by disintegration -- Apple has likely already sold enough product to pocket a tidy net profit, albeit a much smaller one that its shareholders might have hoped for. ❋ Ron Adner (2010)

Most closely associated these days with minimalist Konstantin Grcic and shooting-star Stefan Dietz, Munich has a contemporary design tradition dating back to 1966, when German lighting master Ingo Maurer set up his studio. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A small star pin adorns the lapel of her jacket, evoking the now-iconic star jewelry that Chanel created in the 1920s and 1930s -- perhaps most famously, the shooting-star neck cuff. ❋ Unknown (2009)

From all appearances, he took the Air Force One design as his base, ripped off the Swoosh logo, and stitched on his own shooting-star–like emblem. ❋ Matt Mason (2008)

Abu Shiháb (Father of the shooting-star = evil spirit); the ❋ Unknown (2006)

“Najm al-Munkazzi,” making the envious spy one of the prying Jinns at whom is launched the Shiháb or shooting-star by the angels who prevent them listening at the gates of Heaven. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I went out one day to obey a call of nature,173 when an Ifrit of the Jinn snatched me up and soared with me between heaven and earth; but as he flew there fell on him a shooting-star in the form of a flame of fire and burned him, and I dropped here, where these three days I have hungered and thirsted; but when I saw thee I longed for life. — ❋ Unknown (2006)

The adventurous prince, as is well known, proved to be one of those personages who distinguish themselves during some single and extraordinarily brilliant period of their lives, like the course of a shooting-star, at which men wonder, as well on account of the briefness, as the brilliancy of its splendour. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I thought Koufax's shooting-star career eclipsed everything I had read about athletic courage. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But while the anxious people who had no belief in foreigners were watching by the dark waves, or at the twilight window trembling (if ever a shooting-star drew train, like a distant rocket-signal), or in their sleepy beds scared, and jumping up if a bladder burst upon a jam-pot, no one attempted to ridicule them, and no public journal pronounced that the true British flag was the white feather. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Starfoot was a mare so named, not because she was lovely (for in actual fact she was as ugly as a mud-pie and scrawny as a sapling), but because she was fleet as any shooting-star. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)

Valkyr come down from Valhalla on a shooting-star. ❋ Marie Manning (N/A)

This child was called Tecumseh, which means shooting-star. ❋ Edson Leone Whitney (N/A)

The family-party met for Thanksgiving can hit on no better way to be jolly than in a discussion of the Origin of Evil, -- and the Yankee husband (a shooting-star in the quiet heaven of village morals) about to run away from his wife can be content with no less comet-like vehicle than ❋ Various (N/A)

With a shooting-star for a motor, or a flight on a comet's tail; ❋ Sanborn, Kate, 1839-1917 (1915)

Our feet, burned by the desert sands, torn by yucca and cactus, trod now upon a cool and delicious moss, above which nodded the delicate blossoms of the shooting-star, swung at the ends of strong and delicate stems. ❋ Gouverneur Morris (1914)

A shooting-star swept in a wide parabola to the horizon. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1914)

[Elliott Smith] probably had his [heart broken] by [a shooting star] at one point. ❋ Tiny Time Machine (2011)

Person one: Man, I can't believe that [Sara's] going out with Jack already; she just broke up with Nick three weeks ago. Person two: Yeah, soon Jack'll be [moping] over there [in the corner] as well; Sara's such a shooting star she'll be after some other poor bloke before too long. ❋ Nontrepreneur (2009)

[Peter North] is [a shooting star] ❋ Wolfbait51 (2011)

“I was watching [Degrassi] last night, and when I seen [drake] I let out [a shooting star].” ❋ Witch_Devil (2023)

Siskel: "I just got booty called, bro." [Ebert]: "Damn, that chick must [think you] have [a shooting star]." ❋ Rorolele (2016)

"[Ron Jeremy] gave that [hussie] [a shooting star]!" ❋ Reefer_420_Madness (2012)

[Johnathan] gave me [a shooting star] yesterday, effectively burning a hole in my new [trench coat]. He's fucking going down. ❋ Janis (2005)

I had [a posh wank] on [the airplane] and sent [a shooting star] down the aisle ❋ Eddy The Hero (2008)

[Damn], that shooting star [hit] my [wall]. ❋ Wowser77 (2009)

While fingering [Sally's] butthole the other night [I slipped] her [a Shooting Star]. That bitch ain't going to shit right for a week! ❋ Larry The Fister (2009)