diurnal course
Example Sentences
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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
The achronical rising, on the contrary, is when it appears at the close of day, and in opposition of the sun's diurnal course.
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by Dryden, John
They merely took note of the diurnal course, the alternation of day and night, the number of the seasons, and their regular successions.
From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John
"Roll'd round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees!"
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
We, of all the earth “Beheld by Sol in his diurnal course, “We two alone remain.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
