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 Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
"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; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks and stones and trees."
From Seven Little Australians by Turner, Ethel Sybil
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 moving upward in his diurnal course, and had just acquired sufficient heat to render the shade of the wood desirable.
From Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian by Haight, Canniff
