Word: cometted
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Night after night, throughout the voyage, a comet increased upon the sky. Without insistence or even comment Demaison invests this comet and, at length, the whole of his narrative, with a strange symbolic radiance. At the end, the comet masked by storm, the ship helmed by a halfwit, he is wrecked. When he comes to, he, the halfwit, a dog, a cat, sit on the sand and gaze into the gashed hull. The beach is one intricate fabric of escaping footprints. The most valuable of the animals were insured; he is glad of their liberty. Into the sack that once...
...Unheralded reappearance of Halley's comet...
...have a fairly good imagination but I still can't figure out how the captain knows about this shot. Does the shell leave a smoke track? Does it look like a comet? Does the captain see the gunner aiming ahead of his path...
Watson claims that if the display taken place during the day time, "We'll just be out of luck." In that case the next sky display will not take place until 1946 when the earth may hit the comet of which these meteors are only the tall...
...Giacobini-Zinner comet travels in an orbit extending as far as Jupiter, requires six and one-half years to get around...