diurnal course
Example Sentences
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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
The sun was now terminating his diurnal course, and the lights were glittering on the festal board.
From Headlong Hall by Peacock, Thomas Love
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.
"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
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.
