He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas. ❋ Lev Raphael (2011)
•Wondering why Neil Diamond would do a network special in the ratings dog-days of summer, which is when CBS is airing Neil Diamond: Hot August Night/NYC (tonight, 8 ET/PT)? ❋ Unknown (2009)
All the waterfront property in Funkytown was taken, & we knew the dog-days of groove were slumped & shaking in the corner, drowning in pools of mohair and leather; it was time. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Yes, the rampant mania we're all witnessing under the cover of August "dog-days" does appear to me to be a misanthropic Hobbesian Leviathan on steroids and the farthest side of sanity. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Midsummer moon still, and the dog-days last all the year long, they are all mad. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Jeff was making the usual dog-days of late summer libertarian argument, pretty unremarkable stuff... ❋ Unknown (2007)
Black-birds fatten best in hard weather; why not I in these dog-days? ❋ Unknown (2007)
About the time of the dog-days, and before it, the administration of purgatives is unsuitable. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The spring again southerly, calm, much rain until the dog-days. ❋ Unknown (2007)
See how Shiverton orders a fire in the dog-days, and ❋ Unknown (2006)
The tartan cloak was outrageously hot and voluminous; it was the dog-days, and all these things I was condemned to wear in the midst of a crowd of a thousand people! ❋ Unknown (2006)
As for the evening-party, if a crowd in the dog-days is pleasant, poor Mrs. Timmins certainly had a successful soiree. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Was the Black Hole considered to be an agreeable REUNION, that Britons in the dog-days here seek to imitate it? ❋ Unknown (2006)
A couple of summer loose ends are introduced here for these dog-days Jeff Freeman's Love Story and "Turn-based Worlds"... ❋ Unknown (2005)
Greek [Greek omitted] CHANCE, is that which happens of itself, when that which is ordinary happens not, but another thing in its place; such as cold in the dog-days seems to be; for it is sometimes then cold. ... ❋ Unknown (2004)
It was not less light than in the brightest of the dog-days, and the weather was hot in proportion; but how degrading was the spectacle, to behold the Caliph bespattered like an ordinary mortal! ❋ Unknown (2004)
I was out in the dog-days last year with this fellow of mine, looking for Osmunda, and stayed some days in a village — never mind the name. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But this is very likely only plebeian envy, and I dare say, if I were a lovely duchess of the realm, I would ride in a coach-and-six, with a coronet on the top of my bonnet and a robe of velvet and ermine even in the dog-days. ❋ Unknown (2004)
These helps were barely sufficient to preserve them from the horrors of despair, when they saw their little darling panting under the rage of a loathsome pestilential malady, during the excessive heat of the dog-days, and struggling for breath in the noxious atmosphere of a confined cabin, where they scarce had room to turn on the most necessary occasions. ❋ Unknown (2004)
