diurnal course
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Rolled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks, and stones, and trees.
From Mathilda by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
They merely took note of the diurnal course, the alternation of day and night, the number of the seasons, and their regular successions.
From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John
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
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
