"Corona" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Corona, Flatbush, Morrisania, Fort Lee, Bay Ridge as the farthest points at which the phenomena were manifested. It occurred to nobody to connect these points with a pencil line. If that line is made curved, instead of straight, it will be found to constitute a complete ...
— The Sign at Six • Stewart Edward White
... please him, generally hinting that they were justified in doing this. Some cast their votes in consideration of the law enacted about punishing the culprits, and others in consideration of the arms of Caesar. And one, Silicius Corona, a senator, voted outright to acquit Marcus Brutus. He made a great boast of this at the time and secretly received approval from the rest: that he was not immediately put to death gained for Caesar a great reputation ...
— Dio's Rome, Vol. III • Cassius Dio
... was that of the Administration Building with its corona of light, its dome, arches, and angles outlined with those brilliant lights, as were those of the Peristyle also, and of the grand structures between—Manufactures, Electricity, and Arts on the north side, Machinery and Agriculture on ...
— Elsie at the World's Fair • Martha Finley
... duration of totality. The object was to determine the exact point to which the shadow extended. At this same eclipse Professor Harkness shared with Professor Young of Princeton the honor of discovering the brightest line in the spectrum of the sun's corona. The year following parties were sent to the Mediterranean to observe an eclipse which occurred in December, 1870. I went to Gibraltar, although the observation of the eclipse was to me only a minor object. Some incidents connected with ...
— The Reminiscences of an Astronomer • Simon Newcomb
... surface, called the soffit, is adorned with mutules, square, flat projections having each eighteen gutt depending from its under side. Two or three small mouldings run along the upper edge of the corona, which has in addition, over each slope of the gable, agutter-moulding or cymatium. The cornices along the horizontal edges of the roof have instead of the cymatium a row of antefix, ornaments ...
— A Text-Book of the History of Architecture - Seventh Edition, revised • Alfred D. F. Hamlin
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