They are called the lower or nearer, and the higher or more distant apsides respectively.
These apsides are above fifty feet from the ground, which gives them a dignity of appearance, and leaves greater cause to regret the destruction of the nave, which, with its clerestory, must have been still higher.
Inasmuch as no reason appears why the earth should meet a group near its apsides rather than elsewhere, we must regard it as more probable that the group makes in one year either 1 + 1/33.
Such orbits would become more and more eccentric until the matter moving in them would unite near one of the apsides with other portions of the ring.
And, we might also ask, why the tangential resistance to the comet of Encke should not also produce a retrograde motion in the apsides of the orbit, instead of diminishing its period?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apsides" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
