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
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 Alexander Pope
At that instant Umbriel, one of Mr. Lassell's satellites, was in the position 191°, and distant 21″ from Uranus, in the most favorable position for seeing it.
From Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works by Edward Singleton Holden
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 Alexander Pope
From their relative aspects in these respective positions I judge Umbriel to be about half as bright as Titania.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 by Various
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