The position of the sun above the Earth at any time can be found in a nautical almanac. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
I wonder if anybody on Wall Street has a sports almanac from the future hanging out of their back pocket?. From Wordnik.com. [‘Avatar’ Continues A Proud Hollywood Tradition Of Corporate Paranoia » MTV Movies Blog] Reference
The almanac is a Government monopoly, and any infraction of its copyright is a penal offence. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference
The annual copy of the almanac was a treat, and was pored over through the long winter evenings. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
He shrugged his shoulders, tore up the calendar and said, beating the floor with his foot: "Your almanac is a humbug!". From Wordnik.com. [The Man With The Broken Ear] Reference
Geomancy almanac from the 16th century. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Freeman's Oath 'and a small almanac only preceding it. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886] Reference
For the session of 1880-81 the almanac makes no distinction. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
For the session of 1872-3 the almanac does not differentiate. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
For the session of 1882-3 the almanac does not differentiate. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
For the 1881-2 session the almanac has no list of the members. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
I could as soon compose an almanac as and a clue to this puzzle. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
In August, 1863, they were selling copies of the almanac for 1864. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
By the almanac, fourteen months; but by my account, fourteen years. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
For the session of 1879-80 the almanac gives no marks of differentiation. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
Bookmarks in an almanac marked entries for dams, reservoirs and railroads. From Wordnik.com. [Al Qaeda In America: The Enemy Within] Reference
You look at the almanac and find it says that tomorrow there will be an eclipse. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Land of Canaan] Reference
The disc also comes with an almanac of info on the war -- but the game is more fun. From Wordnik.com. [Try, Try Again] Reference
Yes, Betsey had all this to amuse her, besides the torn newspaper and the old almanac. From Wordnik.com. [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference
Now we notice in this almanac that the last day of the year Kan, is number one of the week. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Tennyson, the "Yankee at King Arthur's Court," and a patent medicine almanac made up the list. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference
To be sure she had last year's almanac, and a torn newspaper, but she knew them both by heart. From Wordnik.com. [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference
And this was the thought that prompted him to send a manuscript copy of his first almanac to Thomas. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Their man for this purpose was the famous Booker, an astrologer, fortune-teller, almanac-maker, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
The town fathers evidently lit the street lights only when the almanac said there was to be no moon. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference
When I came back again, the pie was again in the cupboard and the boarder still studying the almanac. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
It is in the nature of a religious almanac, and refers to the feasts celebrated at the end of a year. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
You puzzle over the almanac till your eyes ache, and study the thermometer till you get a crick in your neck. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
'I have consulted the almanac,' he confided to Paul; 'it is two hundred and seventy-one days to my next drink.'. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
While I was arranging everything in my attic, my eyes rested on the little almanac hanging over my chimney-piece. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I discovered in an almanac I found in the hotel last night, that the original light-house was erected on Greenberry. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
The man mistakes his reckoning who judges either the present or the future by any political almanac of bygone years. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Before replying, Saniel went to his desk and consulted an almanac, which appeared perfectly ridiculous to Balzajette. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There's a dictionary, a thesaurus, a book of quotations, a desk encyclopedia, an atlas, a brief history and an almanac. From Wordnik.com. [Home Is Where the Money Is] Reference
He spread out a solar system chart and marked in the positions of the planets as of that moment, using the daily almanac. From Wordnik.com. [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference
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