| 1. | Our Limbs benumm'd, ere this diurnal Star. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | O firste moving cruel Firmament, With thy diurnal sway that crowdest aye. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 4. | Thus he never failed to pay his diurnal court to her and the self-satisfied Gascon was convinced that sooner or later she could not fail to respond. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 5. | Once, in , after a protracted performance of charades in the house of Luke Doyle, Kimmage, he had awaited with patience the apparition of the diurnal phenomenon, seated on a wall, his gaze turned in the direction of Mizrach, the east. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |