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'...at the solstice will come a new ...' said the figure of an old, bearded man.† (source)
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The solstice wasn't until the twenty-first.† (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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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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They'll give you a tour of the rest of the campus, and I'll pick you up for the solstice party afterward, okay?† (source)
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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.† (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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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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We spoke last class about the difference between equinox and solstice and you remember this, I trust, Miss Innocenti.† (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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And to him, it was: the Jumbo Holiday Greeting Card Pack he bought for my mother (which covered every holiday from Kwanzaa to Solstice, with not a single Christmas card), and the plastic contraption that looked like a small bear trap and promised the perfect French Twist, which we later had to cut out of my hair.† (source)
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"Try the test I told thee of, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and don't mind any other, for thou knowest nothing about colures, lines, parallels, zodiacs, ecliptics, poles, solstices, equinoxes, planets, signs, bearings, the measures of which the celestial and terrestrial spheres are composed; if thou wert acquainted with all these things, or any portion of them, thou wouldst see clearly how many parallels we have cut, what signs we have seen, and what constellations we have left behind and are now leaving behind.† (source)
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Solstice greetings to you, Maya.† (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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