The rays of the sun in passing through or near the nucleus are so modified as to become visible in their further progress through the cometic atmosphere, while all the rest remain invisible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884] Reference

The sphere at the perihelion would envelop the sun, and as a noticeable reduction is sometimes found in its so-called tail, the cometic atmosphere may impart to the sun at that time whatever is necessary to its use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884] Reference

What we call the tail is merely a radius of the cometic atmosphere made visible, and as the comet moves through space, only different portions of the atmosphere come in sight, in obedience to the ordinary laws of light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884] Reference

Every effort had been made to so adjust the electric charge upon the ships that they would be repelled from the cometic mass, but, owing apparently to electric changes affecting the clashing mass of meteoric bodies which constituted the head of the comet, we found it impossible to escape from its influence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference

As motion is the normal condition of matter, and is the producer of electricity, therefore electric actions, concentrated in space, necessarily gathers cometic and nebulous matter from space, the materials, through incandescence, for future globes, with orbits contracting in proportion to condensation, its maximum of attraction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The author argues against cometic astrology with great ability.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference

Next up is a pair of cometic head gaskets never used brand new still in the packaging.    From Wordnik.com.  [NASIOC] Reference

The predicted reappearance in the middle of the century of Halley's comet intensified scientific interest in cometic orbits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

The sunbeams pass as readily through the entire thickness of the cometic substance as they do through our own highly permeable atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852] Reference

I was now scrutinizing the cometic spectrum very closely, being particularly attracted by a thin, faint line, which I thought Ben had overlooked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales] Reference

Most probably, much of the matter that is thus thrown off from the cometic nucleus is never collected again, but is dissipated into space, and lost for ever to the comet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852] Reference

The comet's tail seems, in reality, to be a thin oblong case of vapour, formed out of the cometic substance by the increasing intensity of the sunshine, and enclosing the denser portion of that substance at one end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852] Reference

Most comets appear to have bright centres -- nuclei, as they are called; but these nuclei are not solid bodies, for as soon as they are viewed by powerful telescopes, they become as diffused and transparent as the fainter cometic substance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852] Reference

The great peculiarity of cometic paths, as compared with the planetary ones, is, that they consist of ellipses of very much more eccentric proportions; and that, therefore, the bodies moving in them, go alternately to much greater and less distances from the sun than the planets do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852] Reference

A board of bank directors was hesitating about a bill for L.100, some thinking it rather indifferent paper, others viewing it more favourably; when down comes the cometic flood, and while the manager rings his bell to see what is the matter, it enters by doors and windows, and in an instant closes the whole concern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852] Reference

Every effort had been made to so adjust the electric charge upon the ships that they would be repelled from the cometic mass, but, owing apparently to eccentric changes continually going on in the electric charge affecting the clashing mass of meteoric bodies which constituted the head of the comet, we found it impossible to escape from its influence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference

The bio sene was wierd (too much cometic relief) - the camera was all over the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference

A similar inequality in the distribution of that cometic dust, which causes a certain amount of extinction in the light of the stars, and, therefore, seeing that the two extremities of the axis of the solar vortex are so widely separated, it would not be wonderful if different quantities of such matter were brought down into the vortex from these extremities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference

Judging from the evidence we have on the subject, the process of the formation of the solar system was one which involved the utilisation of cometic and meteoric matter; and it fortunately so chanced that the comets likely otherwise to have been most mischievous -- those, namely, which crossed the track of planets, and still more those whose paths intersected the globe of the sun -- were precisely those which would be earliest and most thoroughly used up in this way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Marvels of Astronomy] Reference

A satirical tract against the cometic prophecy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference