Umbriel
Americannoun
noun
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Only Umbriel, 740 miles in diameter and covered with overlapping meteorite craters but with few other features, seems to have been largely unaffected by Uranian gravity--for reasons scientists cannot explain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repairs to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
From Letters on England by Voltaire
But Umbriel, hateful Gnome! forbears not so; He breaks the Vial whence the sorrows flow.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander
Triumphant Umbriel on a sconce's height Clapp'd his glad wings, and sate to view the fight: Propp'd on the bodkin spears, the Sprites survey The growing combat, or assist the fray.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander
In fine, they each seemed saturate with the spirit of the Gnome king, Umbriel, in the drama, when he ——‘stalked abroad Urging the wolf to tear the buffalo.’
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord
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