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

However this may be, the whole circuit of the globe has been discovered and sailed over, from east to west, even almost as it is encompassed and visited by the sun in its diurnal course.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

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

With a jarring shock, as of closed gates, the grave closes over sound and colour; /moved round in Earth's diurnal course with rocks, and stones, and trees./

From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Mackail, J. W. (John William)

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