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Definition
either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the equator
- Unless someone intervenes, unless the master bolt is found and returned to Zeus before the solstice, there will be war.Chapter 9 (51% in)
- 15 A GOD BUYS US CHEESEBURGERS The next afternoon, June 14, seven days before the solstice, our train rolled into Denver.Chapter 15 (0% in)
- The solstice wasn't until the twenty-first.Chapter 16 (21% in)
- The solstice deadline would pass and war would begin.Chapter 17 (18% in)
- When we went on that winter-solstice field trip, while the other campers were asleep, I snuck into the throne room and took Zeus's master bolt right from his chair.Chapter 22 (60% in)
There are no more uses of "solstice" in The Lightning Thief.
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