Upper Egypt were oriented so as to show Canopus at sunrise at the autumnal equinox, and other temples erected many centuries later were oriented in a similar manner.
The cross in the diagram indicates the present position of the autumnal equinox, the point where the sun crosses the equator going south, and the position the sun now occupies at the beginning of fall.
The two points in which the celestial equator and the ecliptic intersect are called respectively the vernal equinox and the autumnal equinox.
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness.
The odorous wild grape clambers Over the tumbling wall, And through the autumnal quiet The chestnuts open and fall.
But a man need be neither a prude nor a Puritan to turn with sadness and with loathing from these last autumnal blossoms on the tree of Greek beauty.
There is peculiar pathos in this autumnal loveliness of literature upon the wane.
What renders this mistake pardonable is the fact that, however autumnal may be the poem's charm, no point of the genuine Greek youthfulness of fancy has been lost.
And many argent minerals splendid, and of the effulgence of the sun, and like unto autumnal clouds, are beautifying this mighty mountain.
And some were of the hue of autumnal clouds and the faces of some were red as vermillion.
And then the firmament crowded with celestials and Gandharvas became as beautiful as the autumnal welkin spangled with stars.
The south of Europe may be considered the summer and autumnal head-quarters of the Ortolan, though it is a summer visitor in the central and northern parts.
And now a howling, winter storm descended upon her spirit--a tempest very diverse from the silver-grey, autumnalrainfall of placid sadness that here she had foreseen and expected.
The unhealthiness of the situation, together with that of the autumnal season, and an intemperate indulgence in fruits and wine, soon brought on an epidemic among the soldiers, which swept them off in great numbers.
While cruising in search of Conflaus, the autumnal equinox drove the intrepid Thurot into the Northern ocean, and compelled him to winter among the frozen friths of Norway and the Orkneys.
It was a drizzling, dark autumnal day, the heavy pall of smoke that makes that prosperous place look so dismal and dingy to all outsiders, lay over everything.
The street drowsed in the early autumnal sunshine, and in front of his bookstore, in a tilted-back chair, old Mr. Wilcox for a spell slumbered audibly.
And he was so worn, so passionless, so autumnal of soul, that he could smile wearily in the midst of his pain.
Like a mere line of blackness, thin of limb and waist, attired with nun-like austerity in garments that hung as if withering upon her, she stood against the background of autumnal splendour.
Agnes drew a long sigh, slackened her pace, and stood looking at the strange, autumnal lights in the sky, the martins flying over the paddocks toward the wood, and the crescent moon which already shone out above them.
But the express emerged at last from the clinging darkness into autumnal fields, some brown after the harvest, others studded with hay-ricks.
Spica, however, is a star of the first magnitude, and lies a little east of the place of the Autumnal equinox.
Now, this is just the case of the moon at the time of the harvest home, about the time of the Autumnal equinox.
About the time of the Autumnal equinox, the moon, when near her full, rises about sunset a number of nights in succession.
When you look at the firmament on a clear Autumnal or Winter evening, it appears so thickly studded with stars, that you would perhaps imagine that the task of learning even the brightest of them would be almost hopeless.
This poem was conceived and chiefly written in a wood that skirts the Arno, near Florence, and on a day when that tempestuous wind, whose temperature is at once mild and animating, was collecting the vapours which pour down the autumnal rains.
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, 60 Sweet though in sadness.
In chilling voice drear as the breeze Which sweeps along th' autumnal ground, 70 Which wanders through the leafless trees, Or the mandrake's groan which floats around.
Flourishing vine, whose kindling clusters glow Beneath the autumnal sun, none taste of thee; For thou dost shroud a ruin, and below The rotting bones of dead antiquity.
The year, begun with the signal victory of Turnhout, had worthily terminated, so far as military events were concerned, with the autumnal campaign on the Rhine, and great were the rejoicings throughout the little commonwealth.
It was in the calm and softened light of an autumnal afternoon, and he was not alone.
I presume it is a religion to offer up hecatombs to the autumnal gods,--who must surely take a keener delight in blood and slaughter than those bloodthirsty gods of old.
He had learned to regard himself as the arbiter of the fate of men while they were sojourning under the same autumnal roof as himself.
The aroma of the autumnal forest and the balmy air of October stimulated their senses.
Here they found the Iroquois in their fields, industriously gathering in their autumnal harvest of corn and squashes.
The form of Death stumbling past cloven trees in rain and tempest, as he rides his pale horse, appears to him in a waste and chillautumnal region, where stands a ruined castle in lurid illumination.
They shine like glowing ovens, absorbed by the light of the autumnal sunset; they are surrounded as by a rosy halo, when the early sun pierces like a wedge through the dense morning mist.
Here, the sombre autumnal landscapes, with their tall black cypresses, are lashed by the rain and the howling storm.
This is a very common autumnal species, lasting into the winter.
It is an autumnal grower, lasting well into the winter.
Amateurs accustomed to the gayer colors of the autumnal Hypholomas will not suspect this of belonging to the genus, until the color of the spores is obtained.
One of our most plentiful and beautiful autumnal fungi.
Immediately in the rear of Independence Hall, Philadelphia, a fine cluster appears with equal autumnal regularity.
It is a still autumnal day, and, as we turn up the wooded lane on the left of the hill leading from the Putney Railway Station to Wimbledon, a tender gleam in the grey clouds betokens coming rainfall.
They arrived there on one of those soft autumnal mornings which have all the beauty of summer without its excessive heat.
Seated in a corner of the dining-room, with his eyes fixed on the glass doors that led to the garden, through which the soft mist of a superb autumnal night was visible, he thought of his childhood, and of the last years of his life.
At last autumnal rains came, and then the child passed his Sundays at the Rondics, who were all very kind to him, Zénaïde in particular.
Jack, feeling that darkness had settled down on his life as absolutely as it had on this cold autumnal night, uttered an exclamation of despair.
The chill of the early autumnal evenings has a charm that both Cécile and Jack felt as they entered the large room filled with the light from the fire.
Very autumnaldid the forest look with its half-stripped branches and carpet of dry leaves spread on the ground.
Through the scantily clothed boughs came a sort of low-whispered autumnal lament for the beauty and life which had been so blooming and verdant in the old sunshiny days, but was now fast sinking into its grave.
Each year commences at midnight of the day on which falls the true autumnal equinox, for the Observatory of Paris.
As each year started anew on the autumnal equinox, the dates varied a little from those here given.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "autumnal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: arctic; autumn; boreal; canicular; seasonal; spring; summer; summery; vernal; winter; wintry
