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 sat to view the fight; Propp'd on their bodkin spears, the sprites survey The growing combat, or assist the fray.
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Gilfillan, George
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
Sixty years afterwards, Mr. Lassell, of England, discovered the remaining two satellites of Uranus, called Ariel and Umbriel.
From Famous Men of Science by Bolton, Sarah K.
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
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