"Shooting star" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... empty vapor 'tis, And days, how swift they are; Swift as an Indian arrow Fly on like a shooting star. ...
— Lincoln's Yarns and Stories • Alexander K. McClure
... flight of these birds was observed in time of war. If the bird flew before them, it was a signal to go on; but if it crossed the path, it was a bad omen, and a sign to retreat. Others saw their village god in the rainbow, others saw him in the shooting star; and in time of war the position of a rainbow and the direction of a shooting star ...
— Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before • George Turner
... come to make an end of solitude. And so she stood for many years or ages—she could not tell which—trying to fathom the mystery of that great place, and watching the light that streamed from her forehead strike upon the marble floor and pillars, or thread the darkness like a shooting star, only to reveal new depths of blackness beyond those it pierced. At length there came, softly falling from the sky-roof which never stirred to any passing breeze, a flake of snow larger than a dove's wing; but it was blood-red, and in its centre shone a wonderful light that ...
— Dawn • H. Rider Haggard
... a good many years ago," said Grandpa Martin, "a shooting star, or meteor, fell blazing on the island, and that's how it got ...
— The Curlytops on Star Island - or Camping out with Grandpa • Howard R. Garis
... watched the "shooting star" for some moments without speaking, and then rapidly made his way to ...
— On a Torn-Away World • Roy Rockwood
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