What is "meteors"

Usage examples of "meteors".

He did not underread his torsiometer, and he weighed the meteors upon certified balances.

He then ransacked the ship, transferring from it to his own, as well as four heavy meteors, every other item of value which he could move and which his vessel could hold.

Right out there were the meteors, uncountable thousands of millions of them, and a certain proportion of them carried values.

Wherefore he labored long, hard, and rapidly, and his store of high-test meteors grew apace.

Orb above orb, with starry shapes between, And horned moons, and meteors strange and fair, On night-black columns poised--one hollow hemisphere!

Rio that night: those who were terrified of the meteors, those who were profiteering from it, and those who were anxious to see what they could of the big show.

Nor did the sleeping man pay any attention to the roars in the sky as the meteors returned the next night and then the next.

But right now, with the meteors still falling, it is far too dangerous to take a ship down there.

The meteors usually hit the equatorial belt, which is a big desert where nobody lives.

Ronan could tell she was scared of what she might find, and he also caught thought pictures of crushed and burned bodies as his sister imagined what the meteors that had ruined the landscape might have done to living beings.

Somehow, the receding wails were remindful of the dying whistle of the blue meteors themselves.

We have too great and natural a respect for meteors to create artificial ones.

After all, meteors usually strike the Earth at night, they come down in solitary places where there are no people or policemen to see them -- in fact, they almost always hit a little before daybreak, which shows how tricky they are, since night watchmen usually fall asleep just before dawn.

Here they were, like sitting meteors, waiting to be blown out of the galaxy, and he smirked at her.

Finally, there were the meteors that fell near Brisbane, Kansas City, and Le Havre.