Perseid

How to use Perseid in a sentence

• The Perseid meteors sometimes fall at the rate of about sixty per hour.

  Astronomy of To-day | Cecil G. Dolmage

• For this reason, Leverrier pronounced, in 1867, the Perseid to be of older formation than the Leonid system.

  A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century | Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

• A dawdling August Perseid scratched a thin mark of light across the blackness.

  Vigorish | Gordon Randall Garrett

• Secondly, that it was a new power which he erected, and that he was not merely the transferee of the power of the Perseid line.

  Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 | W. E. Gladstone