Milky Way
Example Sentences
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Looking up, I, with tear-dimmed eyes, saw the mighty Milky-way.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
And this is especially true of that vast and fathomless star-stratum, called the Milky-way, in which most of these peculiar phenomena occur, with the exception of the variable stars only.
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
Its other name, Bifröst, the trembling mile, it may even have inherited from the Milky-way, for that, when we look at it, seems to be always trembling.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
The Low-German name for the Milky-way is kau-pat—i.e., kuh-pfad, cow-path.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
A gentler legend is that which we find preserved in a charming poem of the Swede, Torpelius, called “The Winter Street”—another of the names for the Milky-way.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
