Eclipses of the sun are as common with the Lunarians as those of the moon are with usthe same relative position of the three bodies producing this phenomenon; but an eclipse of the earth never takes place, as the shadow of the moon passes over the broad disc of our planet, merely as a dark spot.

Dick, too, had flown to his adored Jack, and Acredale, confounded by the swift alternations in the young soldier's fortunes, settled down to wait the outcome with a tender sorrow for the bright young life eclipsed in disgrace so awful, death so ignominious.

The Red Sox were in the race from the start, but they were eclipsed for a time by the White Sox.

"How shall our subjects then insult on us, When our examples, that are light to them, Shall be eclipsed with our proper deeds?"

Sebastian Scheffer says, that he had seen an egg with the representation of an eclipse on it.

In February, 1831, I counted seconds for father, who observed the annular eclipse at Nantucket.

O surely madness hideth not from Him; Nor doth a soul cease to be beautiful In His sight, when its beauty is withdrawn, And hid by pale eclipse from human eyes.

The boy knew nought of love, and, touched with shame, He strove, and blushed, but still the blush became: In rising blushes still fresh beauties rose; The sunny side of fruit such blushes shows, And such the moon, when all her silver white Turns in eclipses to a ruddy light.

They talked together until the wintry sun suddenly suffered an eclipse behind the mountains of gray clouds which had been threatening to fall upon it all the afternoon, and only the light from the crackling logs remained to show the bright enthusiasm of Mr. Jefferson's noble face and the sombre shadow upon Mr. Morris's disturbed one.

In spite of the unheavenly nature of invective, of something of a lurking conceit in the making an eclipse out of a blush, and in the positive bathos, and I fear almost indecent irrelevancy of the introduction of Beatrice at all on such an occasion, much more under the feeble aspect of one young lady blushing for another,this scene altogether is a very grand one; and the violence itself of the holy invective awful.

I endeavored to fix the location of the little sidewalk cafe where we sat on the second or the third day of the German occupationAugust twenty-first, I think, was the dateand watched the sun go out in eclipse like a copper disk.

"It would have shown me an eclipse before now, only there hasn't been one since I set it going.

Widely as these two poets differed in subjects and methods, they achieved kindred results and played an equally important part in the revival of the human and emotional virtues of poetry after their long eclipse under the shadow of Pope and his school.

But this state of seclusion is discontinued during eclipses; at such times she goes forth and pays her devotions to the monster who is supposed to cause eclipses by catching the heavenly bodies between his teeth.

Astronomical science I assured them did not recognise any such eclipses as those produced by swallowing the planets, and however satisfactory such a course might be to them, it was very demoralising to my orrery.

The matter could only be tested during an eclipse among a number of bright stars.

The good faith, the frankness, the union of heart, that console for so many troubles, would have been eclipsed between them.