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
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
In an area in the Milky-way not exceeding one-tenth of the moon's disc, Mr. Herschel computes the number of stars at not less than twenty thousand, with clusters of nebulae lying still beyond.
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
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.
Sidney, thou star of beaming chivalry, That rose and set 'mid valor's peerless day: Rich ornament of knighthood's Milky-way; How much our youth of England owe to thee!
From With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds by Greene, Frances Nimmo
