The suffix "tropic" is from a Greek word meaning "to turn" and makes, no sense in this connection. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
Stuff like this should take place in tropic ancient lands like the first and second film. From Wordnik.com. [The Librarian 3: The Curse of the Judas Chalice bullet-point review] Reference
QUOTATION: Under the tropic is our language spoke. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations] Reference
If the Senate be to elect, for example, the list called the tropic of magistrates, which is this. From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
That on the north fide of the equator is called the tropic of Cancer, and that on the fouth, the tropic of Capricorn. From Wordnik.com. [A new moral system of geography] Reference
O that those lips had, 423. of the nation, don't confound the, 462. quaint and olden, 613. under the tropic is our, spoke, 220. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference
For one went down in tropic seas. From Wordnik.com. [Spun-Yarn and Spindrift] Reference
"tropic" movements are caused by contact, by electricity, by moisture and by invisible radiations. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
Under the tropic is our language spoke. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference
At first the forest on each side was a tropic swamp. From Wordnik.com. [Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos] Reference
Sub-tropic plants cannot wholly compensate for such a lack. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
I am overwhelmed by the tropic heat, the dirt, the pollution. From Wordnik.com. [The Forgetting Room 9] Reference
Brisbane; and in the Rockhampton district, right on the tropic of. From Wordnik.com. [Fruits of Queensland] Reference
To the whole scene the dwarf palmetto gives a semi-tropic aspect. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Golden Gate, heading for the enchanted regions of the tropic seas. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
Breadths of tropic shade, and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise. '. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Baggott Hotel and down the Calle Rivera under a seething tropic sun. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
And now, the rapid tropic vegetation has reclaimed its old domains, and. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
I was away in tropic islands leading an idle life with my bride amid the cocoanut and palm trees. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
Then, something happened at least inMiami tropic bow to the heat tie to the reality no suit, no tie no prob. From Wordnik.com. [Brooklyn Dressing] Reference
As we neared the tropic those who had crossed it were anticipating the fun; others were kept in ignorance until. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
In California, for example, there may be found every degree of temperature between tropic heat and arctic cold. From Wordnik.com. [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference
Most of these tropic movements are brought about by changes induced in growth by the action of different forces. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
All his resolutions melted before her approach, as the iceberg thaws and dissolves beneath the rays of a tropic sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
So the two rode through the tropic night alone, that night and during the glorious evenings that followed for a week. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
You don't know it, children, but the bottom of the tropic sea has colors in it as beautiful as the lights in that sky. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
During the morning a number of tropic birds flew by us, the first that we had seen since our separation from the ship. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
This, he says, occurs along the equator, where the horary motion is at its maximum; and thus the tropic current is formed. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
On landing we struck at once into the jungle, under tall palms, with their great ripening fruit, and other tropic vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
Our institutions will not deteriorate by extension, and our sense of justice will not abate under tropic suns in distant seas. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Darkness was just closing in as we left the town, but a resplendent tropic moon soon made the night almost as brilliant as the day. From Wordnik.com. [An Epoch in History] Reference
Wandering outside his tropic comfort zone, Hiaasen hasn't come up with any insights more lancing than this: Show business is phony. From Wordnik.com. [Carl Hiaasen's Hollywood comedy, "Star Island"] Reference
Almost midway between the United States and China a mountain chain more than three thousand miles long crosses the tropic of Cancer. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
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