Alcyone, the brightest star of the Pleiades, is many times bigger than our sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photographing the Sky] Reference

The Pleiades are the subject of many ancient legends.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

The Abipones, of Paraguay, called the Pleiades their "Grandfather" and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

The Pleiades are a group of stars situated on the shoulder of the constellation Taurus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference

In Greece the Pleiades were the ghosts of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione, and in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference

The Pleiades are a beautiful and brilliant cluster of stars in the constellation of Taurus.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

From the time Hesiod called the Pleiades the "seven daughters of Atlas" and Virgil wrote in his.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Tabernacle Sermons] Reference

Look at this group of stars which constitutes that beautiful little configuration known as the Pleiades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky] Reference

A condominium project called The Pleiades sits empty and abandoned at the corner of Enfield Road and Pease.    From Wordnik.com.  [KVUE - Home] Reference

The No. 3 supercomputer, a new SGI Altix ICE system called Pleiades, performed at 487 teraflops per second.    From Wordnik.com.  [InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs] Reference

The Pleiades were the Stars of the ocean to the benighted mariner; the Virgins of Spring, heralding the season of blossoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

It looks like a miniature representation of the Great Bear; in fact, it would be far more appropriate to call the Pleiades the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky] Reference

The Pleiades are the youngest stars in the Milky Way galaxy (that's our neighborhood) and as such -- like Hollywood stars -- they're hot!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chasing Clean Air] Reference

Isn't there some spot in the Pleiades which is the centre of the whole solar system?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story] Reference

Number six on the list this time around is the "Pleiades" Altix ICE cluster at NASA.    From Wordnik.com.  [Channel Register] Reference

The property on 1603 Enfield, dubbed the "Pleiades" by its original developers, is owned by First State Bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [TOP STORIES - News 8] Reference

"Pleiades" who adorned the court of Ptolemy Philadelphus (third century.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4] Reference

"Pleiades"), a name given to the cluster of stars seen in the shoulder of the constellation Taurus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

The Pleiades were the last to fade.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prisoner in Fairyland] Reference

There are two allusions to the Pleiades in 'Paradise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference

Pleiades breaking through the blue canopy of the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Myths] Reference

Hyades and Pleiades, the fourteen daughters of Atlas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts] Reference

The Pleiades are situated at a profound distance in space.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference

Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference

The other allusion to the Pleiades is in Book X., line 673, where.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference

Three centuries have now elapsed since the date of "The Pleiades.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

This spectrum is apparently the same as that of the bright Pleiades stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

Pleiades, he begins to make the days shorter as he advances toward the south.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

Of course, the implied allusion in it is to the constellation of the Pleiades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference

In another group she placed the Pleiades, and threw the others far off into the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest] Reference

Clerke, 'that the solar brilliancy is surpassed by sixty to seventy of the Pleiades.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

Passing through Taurus with the seven Atlantic Sisters (the Pleiades) and the Spartan Twins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference

Pleiades; and by the position of this constellation the Dyaks can judge good and bad fortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference

At a later period the number seven was arbitrarily brought into relationship with the Pleiades.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Moon, and several of the planets, and the mutual distances of the stars which form the Pleiades.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference

For example, look at the constellation you have named the Pleiades and you see six or seven stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference

The beautiful cluster of the Pleiades or Seven Sisters has been regarded with hallowed veneration from time immemorial.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference