Equinoctial in example sentence
CHAPTER 26 Moral LoveThere also was of course in AdelineThat calm patrician polish in the address,Which ne'er can pass the equinoctial lineOf anything which nature would express;Just as a mandarin finds nothing fine,At least his manner suffers not to guessThat anything he views can greatly please.
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Don Quixote laughed at the interpretation Sancho put upon "computed," and the name of the cosmographer Ptolemy, and said he, "Thou must know, Sancho, that with the Spaniards and those who embark at Cadiz for the East Indies, one of the signs they have to show them when they have passed the equinoctial line I told thee of, is, that the lice die upon everybody on board the ship, and not a single one is left, or to be found in the whole vessel if they gave its weight in gold for it; so, Sancho, thou mayest as well pass thy hand down thy thigh, and if thou comest upon anything alive we shall be no longer in doubt; if not, then we have crossed." All example sentences