My memory cannot do justice to his masterly tribute to that priceless, God-given treasure--Miss Hinkle's voice. He raved over it in terms that, if they had been addressed to the morning stars when they sang together, would have made that stellar choir explode in a meteoric shower of flaming self-satisfaction.英文原著 · 《Options》
"By Jupiter!" he cried. "A meteoric shower of hosiery! Has communication at last been established with Mars?"英文原著 · 《Roads of Destiny》
The meaning of gold shipments was clear. Where money was going trade was--a thriving, developing life. He wished to see clearly for himself what this world had to offer. Two years later, following the meteoric appearance of a young speculator in Duluth, and after Chicago had seen the tentative opening of a grain and commission company labeled Frank A. Cowperwood & Co., which ostensibly dealt in the great wheat crops of the West, a quiet divorce was granted Mrs. Frank A. Cowperwood in Philadelphia, because apparently she wished it. Time had not seemingly dealt badly with her.英文原著 · 《The Financier》
At his feet lay an accumulation of broken rock from the hillside above, and as a spear sped, singing, close above his shoulder, the occurrence suggested a use for the rough and jagged missiles which lay about him in such profusion. Many of the pieces were large, weighing twenty and thirty pounds, and some even as much as fifty. Picking up one of the larger Bulan raised it high above his head, and then hurled it down amongst the upclimbing warriors. In an instant pandemonium reigned, for the heavy boulder had mowed down a score of the pursuers, breaking arms and legs in its meteoric descent.英文原著 · 《The Monster Men》
[8] Or, "if only you were held to be less 'meteoric,' less head-in- airy in your speculations."英文原著 · 《The Symposium》