A remarkable feature in the appearance which this fireball presented was the long persistent streak of luminous cloud, about fifty miles long and four miles wide, which remained in sight for fully fifty minutes.
"The Story of the Heavens"
Robert Stawell Ball
Her father grew worse, and, as she herself told the servants, complained of a fireball in his stomach, saying, "He never will be well till he has got rid of it."
"Trial-of-Mary-Blandy"
Roughead, William
Then I reopened my eyes just in time to see my fireball fizzle out at the far end of the rick of powder.
"The-Life-of-Me-an-autobiography"
Johnson, Clarence Edgar