star-shower

Most of it, no doubt, is not poetry at all; but it has "once in a hundred years," as Mr O'Shaughnessy sang, the blossoming of the aloe, the star-shower of poetic meteors.

Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889

Their assimilation is further urged -- though not with any demonstrative force -- by two instances, the only two on record, of the tangible descent of an aerolite during the progress of a star-shower.

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

Professor Newton's prediction of a remarkable star-shower in November,

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

a star-shower might have sprung from and would commemorate its dissolution?

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874