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Definition of Fireballs
1. fireball [n] - See also: fireball
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fireballs
Literary usage of Fireballs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1887)
"Daniel Kirkwood (Bloomington, Indiana) presented, through the Secretaries, a
communication, entitled, " Note on the possible existence of fireballs and ..."
2. The Observatory (1907)
"fireballs in January. the last few years, and particularly in and since 1900,
the month of January has furnished a marked abundance of fireballs *. ..."
3. China and the Allies by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1901)
"CHAPTER XX Sunday a " day of rest"—A heavy fusillade—" fireballs "—A big
conflagration in the Fu—The French hard pressed—An old gun found—Its ..."
4. A Manual of Scientific Enquiry: Prepared for the Use of Officers in Her by Great Britain Admiralty, John Frederick William Herschel (1859)
"Thunderstorms, Lightning, fireballs, fyc.—Note the quarter of the horizon where
distant lightning unaccompanied with thunder appears, and the extent which ..."
5. Elements of Astronomy by John Davis (1868)
"Notwithstanding the fireballs frequently appear here and there over the earth,
they generally accompany the periodic exhibitions of shooting stars which we ..."
6. Thunder and Lightning by Camille Flammarion (1905)
"CHAPTER IV fireballs HERE we penetrate into what is, perhaps, the most mysterious,
and certainly the least understood domain of thunder and lightning. ..."
7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1861)
"A Catalogue of Meteorites and fireballs, from AD 2 to AD 1860. By RP GREG,
Esq., FGS 1. THIS Catalogue is intended partly as a sequel to the Reports on ..."
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