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Definition of Skyrockets
1. skyrocket [v] - See also: skyrocket
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skyrockets
Literary usage of Skyrockets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geography of the Heavens and Class Book of Astronomy: Accompanied by a by Elijah Hinsdale Burritt, Thomas Dick (1843)
"... appearance was that of fireworks of the most imposing grandeur, covering the
entire vault of heaven with myriads of fireballs, resembling skyrockets. ..."
2. The Geography of the Heavens and Class Book of Astronomy: Accompanied by a by Elijah Hinsdale Burritt, Thomas Dick (1838)
"To the splendours of this celestial exhibition, the most brilliant skyrockets
and fireworks of art, bear less relation than the twinkling of the most tiny ..."
3. The Geography of the Heavens: And Class-book of Astronomy; Accompanied by a by Elijah Hinsdale Burritt, Thomas Dick (1842)
"To the splendours of this celestial exhibition, the most brilliant skyrockets
and fireworks of art, bear less relation than the twinkling of the most tiny ..."
4. The Geography of the Heavens, and Class-book of Astronomy: Accompanied by a by Elijah Hinsdale Burritt, Thomas Dick, Hiram Mattison (1850)
"... the most brilliant skyrockets and fireworks of art, bear less relation than
the twinkling of the most tiny star, to the broad glare of the snn. ..."
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