diurnal course
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No motion has she now, or force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
"No motion has she now; no force, She neither hears nor sees, Roiled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks and stones and trees."
From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by Mair, G. H. (George Herbert)
No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Roll'd round in earth's diurnal course With rocks, and stones, and trees.
From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various
The sun may roll his swift diurnal course, And from the ocean raise again his head, But when our glimm’ring lamp of life’s expir’d, One long perpetual night we then must sleep.”
From Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness by Samber, Robert
The sun was now terminating his diurnal course, and the lights were glittering on the festal board.
From Headlong Hall by Peacock, Thomas Love
