diurnal course
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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
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
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.
Now, dear old pagan, he is "Rolled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks and stones and trees."
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John
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