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Tropic of Cancer   /trˈɑpɪk əv kˈænsər/   Listen
Tropic of Cancer

noun
1.
A line of latitude about 23 degrees to the north of the equator.





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... which were then lightly got and as lightly spent by the English in India. The baron was accompanied by his wife, a native, we have somewhere read, of Archangel. This young woman who, born under the Arctic circle, was destined to play the part of a Queen under the tropic of Cancer, had an agreeable person, a cultivated mind, and manners in the highest degree engaging. She despised her husband heartily, and, as the story which we have to tell sufficiently proves, not without reason. She was interested by the conversation ...
— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... seemed to shun (perhaps because there was not enough water for him! suggested the greater part of the crew). The frigate passed at some distance from the Marquesas and the Sandwich Islands, crossed the tropic of Cancer, and made for the China Seas. We were on the theatre of the last diversions of the monster: and, to say truth, we no longer LIVED on board. The entire ship's crew were undergoing a nervous excitement, of which I can give no idea: they could ...
— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne


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