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either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the equator

Their deadly ritual for the autumn solstice would have been completed by him.
Leslie Marmon Silko -- Ceremony

Barclay went up to the attic to Shift some weapons out of curtain rods and old Solstice decorations.
Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl -- Beautiful Creatures
'... at the solstice will come a new ...' said the figure of an old, bearded man.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
We spoke last class about the difference between equinox and solstice and you remember this, I trust, Miss Innocenti.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
At that period of the solstice, the light of full noonday is, so to speak, poignant.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Rather than the solstice?
Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch
Solstice greetings to you, Maya.
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
You realize it's the solstice," the girl said.
Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
"Prusias expects an answer by solstice," said Max.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
Unless someone intervenes, unless the master bolt is found and returned to Zeus before the solstice, there will be war.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
"Artemis must be present at the solstice," Zoe said.
Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse
It would reach its fullness on the night of the solstice, the gray time between the seasons when the air tingled with magic.
R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
The solstice[263] he does not observe; the equinox he knows as little; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
It must be by the solstice.
Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero
They'll give you a tour of the rest of the campus, and I'll pick you up for the solstice party afterward, okay?
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
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.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
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.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
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.
John Milton -- Paradise Lost
It would not have surprised me if-on the spring or autumn solstice-Hyperion's sun would, from this vantage point, appear to set directly into the Cleft, its red sides just touching the pink-toned rock walls.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
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.
H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine

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