"Vernal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the vernal breezes! List to the minstrels' strain! 'Tis the poet's song they are singing, And the ...
— ZigZag Journeys in Northern Lands; - The Rhine to the Arctic • Hezekiah Butterworth
... after entering the sign Aries and passing through one eighth of it, determines the vernal equinox. On reaching the tail of Taurus and the constellation of the Pleiades, from which the front half of Taurus projects, he advances into a space greater than half the firmament, moving toward the north. From Taurus he enters Gemini at the time of the ...
— Ten Books on Architecture • Vitruvius
... Adonis, with the hymeneal Fresh vernal buds half sunk between His youthful curls. [Footnote: ...
— The Poet's Poet • Elizabeth Atkins
... Babylonian and Egyptian years appears in the fact that the Babylonian new year dates from about the period of the vernal equinox and not from the solstice. Lockyer associates this with the fact that the periodical inundation of the Tigris and Euphrates occurs about the equinoctial period, whereas, as we have seen, the Nile flood ...
— A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams
... "Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and ...
— 'Lizbeth of the Dale • Marian Keith
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