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 Burton Egbert Stevenson
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks, and stones, and trees.
From Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The priest of Dionysus must have felt himself only a dancing, shouting thing, one with the world without, "whirled round in earth's diurnal course with rocks and stones and trees."
From The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Dench Puffer Howes
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 J. W. (John William) Mackail
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 John Dryden
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