Crossword-Solution: METEORIC 8 letters, 62 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Nothing was more common, in those days, than to interpret all meteoric appearances, and other natural phenomena that occurred with less regularity than the rise and set of sun and moon, as so many revelations from a supernatural source.

The ice cap was melting and those meteoric phenomena, clouds, unknown upon the greater part of Barsoom, were shutting out the light of heaven from this portion of the planet.

The eagle-feather causes an isolated flash of association with the poet of the atmosphere, the winds, and the clouds, “The meteoric poet of air and sea.” How it strikes a Contemporary.

The stone was a meteoric one, as you may have heard, and in its fall upon the earth it broke into two pieces.

And these flakes, be they what they may, and whatever may be said about the dashing of meteoric stones into the sun's atmosphere, &c., are evidently THE IMMEDIATE SOURCES OF THE SOLAR LIGHT AND HEAT, by whatever mechanism or whatever processes they may be enabled to develope and, as it were, elaborate these elements from the bosom of the non-luminous fluid in which they appear to float.