As he stepped into the meridian-room, and saw the instruments, he said, 'Collimators?' I said, 'You have been in observatories before.'

It was breakfast, and we opened the dome; we seated forty in the dome and twenty in the meridian-room.

"As I could not tell at what time the comet would pass the meridian, I stationed myself at the telescope in the meridian-room by 10 P.M., and watched for the comet to cross.

"As I could not tell at what time the comet would pass the meridian, I stationed myself at the telescope in the meridian-room by 10 P.M., and watched for the comet to cross.

As it approached the meridian, I saw that it would go behind a scraggy apple-tree.

"On the 28th, 29th, and July 1st, I obtained good meridian passages, and the R.A. must be very good.

O'er Europe's full meridian on thy morn

it was" Peter, who stood a little behind his master, in modest retirement, and who had only thought his elegant form brought thither to embellish the show, when called upon, advanced a step, made a low bow, and answered in his sharp key: "In the year 1798, your honor, and the 38th of his present majesty, and the 64th year of your life, sir, June the 12th, about meridian.

The daily record of religious exercise and feeling which is so useful to many in the hidden season of tender growth and preparation for future service, is less likely to be maintainedand, it may be, less necessaryin the meridian of life, when the time and strength are taken up with active labor.

Soon after meridian they begin to exhibit reddish streaks, and next morning are a clear pink.

In this defect of vision the curvature of the cornea is greater in one meridian than in another.

Diseases, even at this day, with the sun of science blazing in meridian splendor, they seem to regard as the judgments of heaven; and to think of tracing out the causes of the early death of half our race, is, in their estimation, not only idle, but wicked.

When the sun had passed the meridian, the masts and sails were a protection from his rays, and as he continued to drop towards the water right ahead of us, he strewed our path, first with glittering silver spangles, then with roses, then with violets, through all of which we sped ruthlessly.

These the Siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer flaming felt, And their meaning was more white Than July's meridian light.

" The sun passed the meridian, on that summer day in 1821 and Harvey Richter, the young missionary, came to the door of his cabin, intending to set forth upon his walk to the Indian village.

Were the tracks of every vessel that has passed over this part laid down, I think there would remain very little belief of their existence; in my own opinion I am convinced that there is no danger of the sort between the coast of New Holland and the meridian of 102 degrees east longitude.

We were just three hundred and fifty-two miles to the southward and westward of Scilly, when I observed at meridian, and the wind blowing fresh from the south-south-west, there was no time to lose, did I meditate anything serious against the prize crew.

According to this system as gradually perfected, the government surveyors first mark out a north and south line which is called the principal meridian.

On each side of the principal meridian there are marked off subordinate meridians called range Then a true parallel of latitude is drawn, crossing these meridians at right angles.

By the treaty this claim was given up, and the boundary became the Sabine River from the Gulf of Mexico to 32°, then a north line to the Red River; westward along this river to the 100th meridian; then northward to the Arkansas River, and westward to its source in the Rocky Mountains; then a north line to 42°, and then along that parallel to the Pacific Ocean.

When memory to thy day of glory turns; And views thee in life's bright meridian lie, And victim to thy patriot spirit die!

Some had passed the meridian of life, the sun of some had reached their noon, while others were climbing up the eastern summit.

A son who had reached the meridian of life, with fair prospects and an unblemished reputation, was selected.

Her son had sunk down, while his meridian sun was shining in its noonday splendor; but she had lived till the winter of life had scattered its snows upon her head, and was now falling, like a shock of corn, fully ripe.

This afternoon the wheat stands still and upright, without a motion, in the burning sunshine, for the sun, though he has sloped a little from his highest meridian altitude, pours an even fiercer beam than at the exact hour of noon.