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solstice
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    So popular and effective did this practice become that it was regularized in the middle period, when it took place four times a year, on solstices and equinoxes.†  (source)
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    The solstice is close enough, and that's a kind of balance as well.†  (source)
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    Their deadly ritual for the autumn solstice would have been completed by him.†  (source)
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    "Prusias expects an answer by solstice," said Max.†  (source)
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    He is a warrior and a scholar, though fickle in his moods, so we burn offerings to assure his affection at the solstices, before sowing, and at deaths and births.†  (source)
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    The sun Had first his precept so to move, so shine, As might affect the earth with cold and heat Scarce tolerable; and from the north to call Decrepit winter; from the south to bring Solstitial summer's heat.†  (source)
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    '...at the solstice will come a new ...' said the figure of an old, bearded man.†  (source)
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    It was beautiful to hear the lad lay out the science of war, and wallow in details of battle and siege, of supply, transportation, mining and countermining, grand tactics, big strategy and little strategy, signal service, infantry, cavalry, artillery, and all about siege guns, field guns, gatling guns, rifled guns, smooth bores, musket practice, revolver practice—and not a solitary word of it all could these catfish make head or tail of, you understand—and it was handsome to see him chalk off mathematical nightmares on the blackboard that would stump the angels themselves, and do it like nothing, too—all about eclipses, and comets, and solstices, and constellations, and mean time, and sidere†  (source)
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    Barclay went up to the attic to Shift some weapons out of curtain rods and old Solstice decorations.†  (source)
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    We spoke last class about the difference between equinox and solstice and you remember this, I trust, Miss Innocenti.†  (source)
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    The sun's rays, shining through the oculus on the south wall, moved farther down the line every day, indicating the passage of time, from solstice to solstice.†  (source)
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    It would reach its fullness on the night of the solstice, the gray time between the seasons when the air tingled with magic.†  (source)
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    Presently I noted that the sun belt swayed up and down, from solstice to solstice, in a minute or less, and that consequently my pace was over a year a minute; and minute by minute the white snow flashed across the world, and vanished, and was followed by the bright, brief green of spring.†  (source)
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