"Red planet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... boldly quitted the little satellite with our entire squadron and once more rapidly approached the red planet of war. This time it was to be a death grapple and our chances of victory still ...
— Edison's Conquest of Mars • Garrett Putman Serviss
... no light in earth or heaven But the cold light of stars; And the first watch of night is given To the red planet Mars. The Light of ...
— The World's Best Poetry -- Volume 10 • Various
... castle woods a new world was coming into existence. The short cut to Villeblanche seemed to Desnoyers a leap of millions of leagues, a fall into a red planet where men and things were covered with the film of smoke and the glare of fire. He saw the village under a dark canopy spotted with sparks and glowing embers. The bell tower was burning like an enormous torch; the roof of the church was breaking into flames with a crashing fury. The ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... mind about driving without delay to the famous group which is without rival on the earth, though there may be associated edifices in the red planet Mars that surpass the Cathedral, the Leaning Tower, the Baptistery, and the Campo Santo at Pisa. What genius it was imagined placing them in the pleasant meadow where they sit, just beyond the city streets, I do not know, but it was inspiration beyond any ...
— Roman Holidays and Others • W. D. Howells
... worlds hung in space like our own, our nearest neighbour among them, the "red planet Mars," is thirty-five millions of miles away, while the grand planet Saturn—the "ringed world"—though lighted up by our sun, is so distant, so "high," that the ever-hasting traveller whom we imagined some time ago rushing ...
— Twilight And Dawn • Caroline Pridham |
