ecliptics

Most planets in most systems rotated in the planes of their ecliptics, so that their equators were warmest and their poles coldest.

Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990

Most planets in most systems rotated in the planes of their ecliptics, so that their equators were warmest and their poles coldest.

Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990

Here palms, alpacas, and volcanoes; sun's disks and stars; ecliptics, horns-of-plenty, and rich banners waving, are in luxuriant profusion stamped; so that the precious gold seems almost to derive an added preciousness and enhancing glories, by passing through those fancy mints, so Spanishly poetic.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

Here palms, alpacas, and volcanoes; sun's disks and stars, ecliptics, horns-of-plenty, and rich banners waving, are in luxuriant profusion stamped; so that the precious gold seems almost to derive an added preciousness and enhancing glories, by passing through those fancy mints, so Spanishly poetic.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

Here palms, alpacas, and volcanoes; sun's disks and stars; ecliptics, horns-of-plenty, and rich banners waving, are in luxuriant profusion stamped; so that the precious gold seems almost to derive an added preciousness and enhancing glories, by passing through those fancy mints, so Spanishly poetic.

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

Now, up to this moment, Saunders knew no more, than those who had just been questioning him of the particular situation of the ship, in which he floated as indifferent to the whereabouts and the winds, as men sail in the earth along its orbit, without bethinking them of parallaxes, nodes, ecliptics, and solstices.

Homeward Bound or, the Chase James Fenimore Cooper 1820

Here palms, alpacas, and volcanoes; sun’s disks and stars, ecliptics, horns-of-plenty, and rich banners waving, are in luxuriant profusion stamped; so that the precious gold seems almost to derive an added preciousness and enhancing glories, by passing through those fancy mints, so

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002