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"Aldebaran" Quotes from Famous Books

... of them, walked solemnly up to a great rock that stood in the hillside, and, breaking a switch from a shrub that grew in a cleft, struck the face of the stone, crying in a loud voice, "I command thee to open, in the name of the red Aldebaran!" ...

— Twilight Land • Howard Pyle

... time, I saw what is called the zodiacal light. It commenced below the horizon with a considerable breadth, and as luminous as a moderate aurora, and extended upward in the direction of the star Aldebaran, thus forming a triangle. Mr Vernon explained to me the supposed cause of this phenomena. It is that the sun is surrounded by a mass of nebulous matter, of which this light is but a manifestation. Some philosophers have an idea that the matter has solid particles in it, which, ...

— My First Voyage to Southern Seas • W.H.G. Kingston

... Once out of sight of the guard, he made not for the Space Symphony, but for the Long Ranger, bound for Aldebaran. ...

— Runaway • William Morrison

... Sirius had dropped a ray across its lips of blue and coaxed it out to dance. There was a murmur and a stir among the fruit-trees too. The apple blossoms painted the darkness with their tiny fluttering dresses, while old Aldebaran trimmed them silently with gold, and partners from the Milky Way swept rustling down to lead the violets out. Oh, there was revelry to-night, and the fairy spell of the blue-eyed ...

— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood

Words linked to "Aldebaran" : binary, binary star, double star, Taurus