The two first stars named are exactly on what is called the equinoctial line. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen] Reference
This was the beginning of a long and dreary autumnal storm, a deferred "equinoctial," as many considered it. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Venner] Reference
This discouraging condition of affairs sorely afflicted her, and produced a kind of equinoctial agitation in the Hollis kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [Sandy] Reference
This is called the equinoctial current. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
This will be the equinoctial shadow of the gnomon. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
The equinoctial gales had been protracted and severe. From Wordnik.com. [A Child of the Glens or, Elsie's Fortune] Reference
"Is that what we understand by the equinoctial storms?". From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns] Reference
‘Here’s all his equinoctial lines, and his topics of. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
Any day they might be overtaken by an equinoctial storm. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference
The equinoctial gales set in early that year, and severely. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
I was sure that this was the beginning of the equinoctial gale. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
The equinoctial storm seemed to have blown itself out by the next morning. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's] Reference
The equinoctial gales usually begin on March 20 (to-morrow), so the captain says. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
In this way he reached the territory on the equinoctial line, where are now Puerto. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
I don't know if you remember that equinoctial gale that blew about the 18th or 19th. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
It pictures an imaginary kingdom away on an island beneath the equinoctial in the New. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
During the night and this morning it has continued to blow a perfect equinoctial storm. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales] Reference
A regular equinoctial Gail goes whirling and tearing through tin leaves of this smart book. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 03, April 16, 1870] Reference
I wish this Wiseacre may continue to coast about untill an equinoctial Storm shall overtake him. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 August 1777] Reference
This is childhood's equinoctial storm, marking the beginning of the second season of life's year. From Wordnik.com. [Stammering, Its Cause and Cure] Reference
Hence, wherever a sundial is to be constructed, we must take the equinoctial shadow of the place. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Where you are admonished by them also, that these are computed "according to the equinoctial day.". From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
"The equinoctial storms come in March and September, when the days and nights are of equal length.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns] Reference
And perhaps it was, even if Rose had the equinox and the equinoctial storms a little mixed in her mind. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's] Reference
It was not the story equinoctial weather that sounds the wild dirge of autumn, and marches the winter in. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Silas] Reference
I feel as fit as a fiddle, and believe the equinoctial gales at their worst would be none too much for me. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
In fact, none worthy of note had fallen for two months, except what came during the late equinoctial storm. From Wordnik.com. [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference
This will be a line perpendicular to the equinoctial ray, and it is called in mathematical figures the axis. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
On reperusal, it was full of evil presage — 'Al scenery' — but what of equinoctial storms and October fogs?. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
But the equinoctial storm would soon be coming, and he was afraid to venture out in rough weather on short rations. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
(Japan) in the equinoctial region, where he should find all the spices of the world and any amount of precious stones. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
The equinoctial gales were blowing, and Captain Williams thought it wise to make for the Harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
The location of the island is given in general terms in the half-title as "below the equinoctial line," and in the text as in. From Wordnik.com. [The Isle Of Pines (1668) and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey Ford] Reference
I now began to make a more minute survey of the preparations for amusement, for the fête was not yet in its equinoctial splendour. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828] Reference
… Approaching from the North Sea, you come to some small sandy islands, which are almost completely submerged by equinoctial tides. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret in Holland]
Not long after the last summer guests had gone the equinoctial storms set in, and, if it was a bad year, they lasted on into November. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
On the western coast, the tidal range may reach up to 4 meters (m) during the equinoctial periods, compared with 0.75 m on the east coast. From Wordnik.com. [Madagascar mangroves] Reference
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