Popular, he could own that he was, but not meteorically; rather by reason of his willingness to receive light than his desire to shed it.
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Her bearing was that of a barbaric princess, and a princess of meteorically vivid beauty.
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He was progressing, though not so meteorically as Bauer and Schabelitz had predicted.
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