orb of night

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Third, that the charge should contain 400,000 pounds of gun-cotton, which, giving out six billions of litres of gas in rear of the projectile, would easily carry it toward the orb of night.

From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Verne, Jules

"Or the velocity will be sufficient," resumed Barbicane, "and it will continue its elliptical orbit, and gravitate eternally round the orb of night."

From The Moon-Voyage by Verne, Jules

Already the clouds were fast clearing, being slowly driven before the yellow glory of the orb of night.

From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Cullum, Ridgwell

The fifty minutes' halt in the desolate bush terminated when the deep orange-hued orb of night rose above the distant sea.

From Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force by Prater, Ernest

Within this breast a fire is newly lit Whose glow shall sun the dew away, whose radiance Shall make the orb of night hang in the heavens Unnoticed, like a glow-worm at high noon.

From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Shaw, Bernard