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Example sentences for "fixed stars"

  • With the unaided eye there is ordinarily within the range of our vision some five or six thousand of these "fixed stars.

  • But again: We often speak of God in reference to his agents.

  • A chart or catalogue of fixed stars, especially of stars visible to the naked eye.

  • We may approximate towards a very faint idea of their immensity, by calling to mind the immense number of fixed stars.

  • Beneath this revolves the heaven of fixed stars, which, formed from the most subtile elements in the universe, are devoid of weight.

  • Planetary world, next beneath that of fixed stars, 2; consisting of seven heavens, 2.

  • They are called intelligences or angels; and the primum mobile as well as the heaven of fixed stars is held in motion by them.

  • In the beginnings of astronomy it was not known that the ``fixed stars'' had any motion independent of their apparent annual revolution with the whole sky about the earth as a seeming center.

  • Several tails inclined toward the sun; change of form of fixed stars by the nuclei of comets.

  • The third shall contain tables of latitudes and longitudes of fixed stars, declinations of the sun, and the longitudes of certain towns.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after repeated; also possible; early period; ere the; fixed capital; fixed charges; fixed direction; fixed duty; fixed idea; fixed laws; fixed period; fixed point; fixed price; fixed rate; fixed time; fixed upon; give alms; little pleasure; longer existed; many feet; neither should; nothing was; progress report; strange enough; telling them; what became