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summer solstice
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  • "Isn't that— yes, that's the summer solstice," Iona remembered.†  (source)
  • He would attach the adamantite handle the next night and all would be ready for the enchantment under the full moon on the night of the summer solstice.†  (source)
  • The vernal equinox now lay three months in the past, the summer solstice had arrived.†  (source)
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  • At that time, the summer solstice of these southernmost districts, the sun had started back down, and tomorrow it would cast its last rays.†  (source)
  • In the early epochs of our race, men dwelt in temporary huts, of bowers of branches, as easily constructed as a bird's-nest, and which they built,—if it should be called building, when such sweet homes of a summer solstice rather grew than were made with hands,—which Nature, we will say, assisted them to rear where fruit abounded, where fish and game were plentiful, or, most especially, where the sense of beauty was to be gratified by a lovelier shade than elsewhere, and a more exquisite arrangement of lake, wood, and hill.†  (source)
  • When she saw my eyes open, she asked, "What will happen at the summer solstice?"†  (source)
  • The captain had long since returned to his post and the guards, having swapped their belligerence for boredom, now leaned against the wall and let the ashes from their cigarettes fall on the parquet floor while into the grand salon poured the undiminished light of the Moscow summer solstice.†  (source)
  • The night of the summer solstice, when magic tingled in the air, exciting all but the rational beings who had rejected such base instinctual urges, had begun.†  (source)
  • You asked me something about the summer solstice.†  (source)
  • And if it isn't returned by summer solstice, there's going to be trouble.†  (source)
  • Zeus has demanded that Poseidon return the bolt by the summer solstice.†  (source)
  • And get it back to Olympus before the summer solstice, in ten days.†  (source)
  • At this rate, we'd never make it to L.A. alive, much less before the summer solstice.†  (source)
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