Tove Jansson's Comet in Moominland (1946) depicts the world of the Moomins threatened by a fiery comet.

Electrons are dashing about me - like so many fiery comets!

Two away, and he watched the fiery comet find its mark, punching through fragile glass to detonate inside the house, spewing smoke and shrapnel from the shat- tered window.

The launcher hissed, a fiery comet hurtling across the manicured lawn to keep a date with destiny.

In the skating world, careers pass like comets, fiery but brief.

There would be signs, portents, fiery comets and showers of frogs.

To Adelia, Majesty seemed to weave his way through them like a fiery comet, passing one after another until he bore down on the leader.

Tulip shot T.C. dead, and Grandma was killed when the burning house ignited her oxygen tank, sending her rocketing into the sky like a fiery comet.

Not even the continued panorama of fiery comets overhead broke his profound silence.

Trader-Gunner shot it in mid-spring, and it carried across the room like a small fiery comet to crash against the wall.