diurnal course
Example Sentences
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There are no mountains, or high hills intervening, no obliquity in the sun’s diurnal course, to lengthen out the day.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne
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.
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
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
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 Howes, Ethel Dench Puffer
