...Most of them were phosphorescent, and they avoided collisions in a waythat suggested that they had some buried sense of light perception... 
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930」
...These temporary stars, which appear spontaneously to the observers onthe Earth, and quickly vanish again, are doubtless due to collisions,conflagrations, or celestial cataclysms...
Camille Flammarion Frances A. Welby 「Astronomy for Amateurs」
...Such periodic collisions might go on for ages without the meteors being exhausted by incorporation with the stars...
Garrett Serviss 「Curiosities of the Sky」
...Sir Norman Lockyerholds, indeed, that nebulæ are, in reality, vast swarms of meteors, andthe light they emit results from continual collisions between theconstituent particles...
Cecil G. Dolmage 「Astronomy of To-day」
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