Seriously, we need to do an edit of each show with your tweets as subtitled cometary to the show. From Wordnik.com. [SPARTACUS: episode 4] Reference
'For a cometary-type orbit, that is,' Pollux added. From Wordnik.com. [The Rolling Stones]
The choice of a cometary orbit was not a frivolous one. From Wordnik.com. [The Rolling Stones]
"Yeah … cometary orbit …" She wasn't really listening. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
A second head was splitting away from the cometary nucleus. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicles of Riddick]
The cometary creature had sliced into him and flung itself open. From Wordnik.com. [Time Streams]
He meant the cometary glacier which he and Ilitu had been exploring. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
In cometary astronomy we shall find much to substantiate these views. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
Most of the Ringworld will break up and fly free, beyond the cometary halo. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Engineers]
She thumbed up a speckled orange display which highlighted five cometary tails. From Wordnik.com. [Tides Of Light]
The station was outward bound for the apastron of its shortened and cometary path. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
"Yes," Jhoira agreed, breathless from fighting and from holding onto the cometary torches. From Wordnik.com. [Time Streams]
This is Newton's analysis of cometary motion, just as he developed it by geometric methods. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Roughly, perihelion is at about five a.u., aphelion forty or fifty thousand - ultra-cometary. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
At first, all she saw was a huge lump of cometary ice, black-crusted over glacial-blue gleaming. From Wordnik.com. [Time's Enemy]
"While the captain only survived long enough to find us a hiding place in that cometary fragment.". From Wordnik.com. [Time's Enemy]
An asteroid impact, a cometary collision, they have happenned repeatedly throughout Earths history. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
More circles of light broke free of the main body and streamed across the road in cometary splendor. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Tower]
The Astronomical portion, by Mr. Barker, is unusually copious, and the cometary plates are well executed. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 532, February 4, 1832] Reference
Where did it get the atmosphere and ice - outgassing, cometary impacts, infall from the supernova cloud, or what?. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
If we are going to do a cometary for Saturn instead of a tangential for Earth, it's back to the salt mines for me. From Wordnik.com. [The Rolling Stones]
Sisko grunted, gazing out at the expanse of dark-crusted cometary ice that formed the natural hull of Starbase One. From Wordnik.com. [Time's Enemy]
For the greatest part of its 780-day year it arcs far out from its primary, in a high-angled sweeping cometary orbit. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
We now know that most meteors have cometary origins (note: the rocks from space that hit the ground are called meteorites). From Wordnik.com. [Chris McGowan: August 11: The Night of Shooting Stars] Reference
A streamer of gas far more massive than the Earth broke free, and rounded the sun, and sprayed back toward the cometary halo. From Wordnik.com. [A World Out of Time]
But there were magnetic monopoles in the cometary halo around Canyon's orange-yellow. sun, and radioactives on the planet itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Engineers]
The cometary nucleus seemed to drift farther upward and then recede as the starship dropped into position for its waylaying sprint. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
Twisted, crumpled, blackened, half melted, the rest of the ship whirled off on a cometary path around the world and back toward outer space. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Worlds]
Thereafter Newton showed that the cometary path was really an ellipse, the visible portion of which might be indistinguishable from a parabola. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
After the world recovered from the devastating cometary impact near Padua, Italy, in 2077, there was an entire half century of moderate growth. From Wordnik.com. [Rama Revisited]
The countervailing use of benign-gases as a subsidiary to the suppression of the depressing cometary toxins of 2080 will also occur to the reader. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
It's almost got to be Edmond Beynac's giant iron asteroid, orbiting out where only dust and gravel and cometary iceballs large and small are supposed to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
It is coming in rapidly, hy cometary standards, and might have been one of the more spectacular comets of the twenty-first century, in 2047, if it were not needed sooner. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Of Storms]
The inclination of the plane of the cometary orbit to the plane of the ecliptic, an angle which is generally considerable, but in this case the planes were proved to coincide. From Wordnik.com. [Off on a Comet] Reference
Little Eyolf, which was written in Christiania during the spring and summer of 1894, was issued, according to Ibsen's cometary custom, as the second week of December rolled round. From Wordnik.com. [Henrik Ibsen] Reference
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