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  • The Ecliptic, a great circle of the sphere, (shown on the preceding map by two parallel lines), is supposed to be drawn through the middle of the Zodiac, cutting the Equator at two points, (called the Equinoctial points), at an angle with the equinoctial of 23 degrees 28 minutes, (the sun's greatest declination), and is the path which the earth is supposed to describe amidst the fixed stars in performing its annual circuit around the sun.

    The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788

  • Equinoctial line storms will stir the lakes, where bass, pickerel, and pike will feed more aggressively as waters begin to cool.

    What's Your Fall Fishing Game Plan? 2009

  • (Cape Lopez), and is right under the Equinoctial line, about fifteene miles from St. Thomas, and is a great land, well and easily to be knowne.

    Essays 2007

  • There's a collection from 1981 that is published as either "Picnic on Nearside" or "The Barbie Murders" and contains his award-winning tale, "Equinoctial."

    Elephants on Parade sfmike 2006

  • Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1199–1804.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1199–1804.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • The good ship still gallantly breasted the billows on her watery way, and at last they neared the Equinoctial, where the ceremony of shaving, on crossing the line, was productive of much fun, about fifty of the prisoners undergoing that operation for the merriment of the others, who, with the captain, officers and passengers, were all equally amused thereby.

    Ralph Rashleigh 2004

  • Equinoctial line, where the extreame heat of the ayre spoyled all our victuailes: Our flesh and fishe stunke, our Bisket molded, our

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Equinoctial_ to the _Vernal_, and that whatever he attempted was never to his satisfaction, though he courted his fancy never so much; so that in all the years he was about this Poem, he may be said to have spent but half his time therein.

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • He that hath past under her hath past the Equinoctial; and he that escapes her, has

    The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women Anonymous

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