Threatened by its own weight, at the mercy of the first tropic storm, it hung a death trap for the one who first added to its burden.
The heat of the tropic night and the strenuous gallop had covered El Capitan with a lather of sweat.
Sailors with a tropic liver always have a brutal tone.
During the ceremony at the tropic we doubled Cape Barbas, situated in lat.
And so they proceeded on their voyage; and a few days later they crossed the tropic of Cancer, which appears to have been made the occasion, in this instance, of some fun with those who had not come so far south before.
It's an island that ordinarily belongs somewhere in the tropic zone--real sultry weather, sunstrokes and all that.
To lie on the top, in the doldrums' noonday calm, and warm your tummy in the tropic sun!
The silence, the immobility of it all, and the pour of the tropic sun, were just beginning to be a little subduing.
When the sea was still, at the slack of the tides, this tropic anchorage was not like water.
In his time nothing was known of the extreme northern parts of Europe and Asia, nor of interior Ethiopia and the southern part of Africa, extending beyond the tropic of Capricorn to the Cape of Good Hope.
There had been heavy rain during the day, and the whole lifeless forest was dripping with a continuous, ceaseless clatter of heavy drops on tropic foliage; with a united sound like a widespread whisper.
He had to be alert to keep up with Jack Meredith--to understand his speech; and he rather liked the necessity, which was a change after the tropic indolence in which he had moved.
For some time they smoked in silence, subject to the influence of the dreamy tropic night.
In all there was that subtle sense of unreality--that utter lack of permanency which touches the heart of the white exile in tropic lands, and lets life slip away without allowing the reality of it to be felt.
He listened, and after a moment heard the regular glug-glug of the paddles stealing over the waters of the still tropic river, covering a wonderful distance.
On his right, spread out the broad savannahs of the South, waiting to be blessed; and far off that Mexique bay bends round her tropic shores.
There out of the sweetest plant which God has made to grow under a tropic sun, men distil a poison the most baneful to mankind which the world has ever known.
The 3d May was held as a day of thanksgiving and prayer; and on the 21st they passed the tropic of Cancer, catching every where such abundance of fish, that, besides supplying their immediate wants, they salted and dried a considerable store.
Leaving this isle, they came to the road of Mazatlan on the 24th, lying under the tropic of Cancer.
The 15th they passed thetropic of Cancer; and the 20th in the morning fell in with the north side of Cape de Verd.
The 11th March they passed the tropic of Capricorn to the north, the wind in general being E.
And if here there were the gigantic growths of a carboniferous era, the tropic regions of this planet must be literal infernos.
Shortly after this realization dawned, he was ordered below, and as the tropic sun was sinking over that eery floating tombstone, which according to Professor Stevens marked a nation's grave, the Nereid submerged.
Give me ripe fruit with the green-- Fresh leaves mingling with the sear; As in tropic climes are seen Blending through the deathless year.
The tropic moon filled the sky with splendor and the island with light.
When he awakened, the sun had set and, looking above and beyond the rocks that circled above him, he could see the stars shining in tropic brilliance in the quiet night sky.
He was near enough for the details, and he observed that her eyes were as blue as the tropic sea, and filled with light.
Nor does one live in a tropic island with no law at all, except the taboos of vague superstition, without intensifying that personal element.
All about him, the farther side being several miles straight away, in a rough, circular shape rose huge walls of stone enclosing the loveliest tropiclandscape his eyes had ever looked upon.
And the next platter was heaped with such vegetables of Europe as would grow in tropic lands.
It was slightly cold in the building, although the night was warm, with all the languorous, drowsy heat of tropic midsummer.
As he intended to swim back to the whaleboat, he laid his clothes out upon some rocks which faced the rift-like opening and through which the morning sun streamed with tropic intensity.
With the first break of day as the splendor of the tropic morning streamed through the rift, he saw again the same radiant, beautiful, golden figure.
They could hear faintly in the silence of the tropicnight the crash of the tumultuous silver seas rushing through the jagged needles of the barrier.
Even the tropic sun had only slightly mellowed the clear translucence of her complexion.
Behind the clump of palm trees ran a path through thick growths of tropic fern and cane and blooming leafage.
He had cruised in tropic waters, and the knowledge he had gained was of service.
They were by this time wet to the skin; for the tropic rain, falling in a deluge of thick heavy drops, soon saturated their garments through and through.
It could not be the tail-feathers of the tropic bird so prized by the chiefs of Polynesia; nor yet the scarlet pouch of the sea-hawk.
Moonlight, a seashore, a monastic building half-hidden by trees of tropic growth, with a vessel in the distance, formed the scene.
Under a tropic sun, a thousand miles from land--no water!
All in and about this rustic abode evidenced both wealth and taste, and presented every elegance and luxury that was adapted to a tropic climate.
In tropic climes, night is but a name, and morning broke immediately.
The complexion of the buyer was ruddier than the cherry, for the tropic sun had beamed ardently on his peachy Scotch skin, proclaiming him a new-chum, a bright and shining new-chum.
A relative of the family here seemed to be wooing the tropic sun of its beams, if not to vitalise, at least to burnish its treasure.
His bald pate, hung about with scant reddish ringlets, had been roasted by the tropic sun until it glowed, and eyes and nose strove for supremacy of inflammation.
Through groves of rarest semi-tropic fruit trees you ride for miles, in the midst of beautiful, modern homes, for the American renaissance is not more manifest in the suburbs of Boston or Chicago than in Southern California.
Without head and spine covering of some sort he could not travel a mile under the tropic sun; without foot covering or a light he would be helpless at night.
The fever was in his brain, the magic of the tropic moon was flooding his soul.
He was no fool about women when his mind was sufficiently disengaged from other things; and now he remembered the inhibited promise of the tropic moon.
One was the magic of the tropic moon; the other was the shy, half-ashamed reaction of the strong man whose emotions have controlled him.
The beautiful long tail-feathers of the tropic or man-of-war bird were used for the same purpose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tropic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: climate; clime; equator; hot; latitude; longitude; meridian; parallel; tropical; tropics
