At night, the moon presented, with much greater truth, a comet-like aspect; a pale, and singularly clear, fast traveling shape of fire, trailing streaks of cold flame.

A gentle breeze gave to each spouting jet, a misty tail, comet-like in appearance to the admiring spectators.

It was the last startling effulgence of his comet-like genius; for when the spring-flowers came again, he was gone from our earth.

the Yankee husband (a shooting-star in the quiet heaven of village morals) about to run away from his wife can be content with no less comet-like vehicle than a balloon.