Examples of using "Astre" in a sentence and their english translations:
An axis is an imaginary straight line around which a celestial body rotates.
Meanwhile the sun rolls round the mighty year, / and wintry North-winds vex the waves once more.
Scarce spake the sire when lo, to leftward crashed / a peal of thunder, and amid the night / a sky-dropt star athwart the darkness flashed, / trailing its torchfire with a stream of light.
"Thither we sailed, when, rising with the wave, / Orion dashed us on the shoals, the prey / of wanton winds, and mastering billows drave / our vessels on the pathless rocks astray. / We few have floated to your shore."
"Him, crowned with vows and many an Eastern prize, / thou, freed at length from care, shalt welcome to the skies."
The sun's eclipses and the changing moons, / whence man and beast, whence lightning and the rain, / Arcturus, watery Hyads and the Wain; / what causes make the winter nights so long, / why sinks the sun so quickly in the main.