winter solsticein a sentence
- The days darken, the trees turn glum, the sun rolls downhill towards the winter solstice, but still it isn't winter.† (source)
- As such, it was with a touch of disappointment that the Count entered the Piazza on this winter solstice to find the room ungarlanded, the balustrades unstrung, an accordion player on the bandstand, and two-thirds of the tables empty.† (source)
- My nerves haven't been right since the winter solstice.† (source)
- December twenty-fifth, my friends, is the ancient pagan holiday of sol invictus-Unconquered Sun-coinciding with the winter solstice.† (source)
- It is not my habit to hand out secrets like candied nuts on winter solstice.† (source)
- I think I may become a New Age person next year and celebrate the winter solstice by leaving my family and going to Stonehenge to dance with Druids.† (source)
- Rowan has until the winter solstice to swear fealty and fulfill my lord's demands.† (source)
- After the winter solstice its windows filled to overflowing with blue sky as wide as a river in flood.† (source)
- And I shall bring it back to Olympus by winter solstice.† (source)
- For reasons we don't yet understand, it must happen by the winter solstice, only four days from now.† (source)
- As I recall, I voted to let you live at the winter solstice.† (source)
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- The General, had said Annabeth would only be kept alive until the winter solstice.† (source)
- Which meant tomorrow was the winter solstice.† (source)
- During the winter solstice, at the last council of the gods, Zeus and Poseidon had an argument.† (source)
- "The winter solstice," Chiron spoke up, "is also the time of greatest darkness.† (source)
- "You were the thief on the winter solstice," he said.† (source)
- This very Friday, December twenty-first, is the winter solstice.† (source)
- He was there at Olympus at the winter solstice.† (source)
- Assuming she does not die from her injuries, you may keep her alive until winter solstice.† (source)
- I saw it next to his seat during the winter solstice council meeting.† (source)
- But I had no idea how to find them, and tomorrow was the winter solstice.† (source)
- It was already Wednesday, only two days until winter solstice, and we still had a long way to go.† (source)
- Jason explained about their quest—the prophecy at camp, Hera getting imprisoned, the giant taking Piper's dad, and the winter solstice deadline.† (source)
- And according to the waitress, it was 9 A.M. on December 21, the winter solstice, which gave them three hours until Enceladus's deadline.† (source)
- Some of us year-rounders-Luke and Clarisse and I and a few others-we took a field trip during winter solstice.† (source)
- "The winter solstice,"" Thalia said.† (source)
- She was there at the winter solstice.† (source)
- He wasn't welcomed in Olympus except on the winter solstice, so he'd built his own Olympus underground.† (source)
- I will see you by winter solstice.† (source)
- Tomorrow is winter solstice.† (source)
- Nico di Angelo came into Olympus to a hero's welcome, his father right behind him, despite the fact that Hades was only supposed to visit Olympus on winter solstice.† (source)
- Richter cut these short, thanking all for their attendance and reminding them that the winter solstice was still six weeks away.† (source)
- The tree is the World Axis in its wish-fulfilling, fruitful aspect—the same as that displayed in Christian homes at the season of the winter solstice, which is the moment of the rebirth or return of the sun, a joyous custom inherited from the Germanic paganism that has given to the modern German language its feminine Sonne.† (source)
- It was a fine and quiet afternoon, about three o'clock; but the winter solstice having stealthily come on, the lowness of the sun caused the hour to seem later than it actually was, there being little here to remind an inhabitant that he must unlearn his summer experience of the sky as a dial.† (source)
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