"Blazing star" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... first place, a blazing star or comet appeared for several months before the plague, as there did the year after another, a little before the fire. The old women and the phlegmatic hypochondriac part of the other sex, whom I could almost ...
— A Journal of the Plague Year • Daniel Defoe
... not at the thunder's crack; I tremble not at noise of war; I swound not at the news of wrack; I shrink not at a blazing star; I fear not loss, I hope not gain, I envy ...
— Eighth Reader • James Baldwin
... led the way to the Blazing Star Mine, and pointed out its capabilities and promise. He waited with some anxiety ...
— Do and Dare - A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... of surging fire. The appearance in the heavens of this strange sight, to a watcher at some rancho, or in the not distant city of San Francisco, if such there were, must have afforded a more vivid illustration of the fall of a blazing star or meteoric wonder than astronomer has ever put ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various
... portends the downfall of the French king, and observe, that the farthingale appeared in England a little before the ruin of the Spanish monarchy. Others are of opinion that it foretells battle and bloodshed, and believe it of the same prognostication as the toil of a blazing star. For my part, I am apt to think that it is a sign that multitudes are coming into the world rather than going out of it," &c. ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
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