Dog Star

Word DOG STAR
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The word "dog-star" in example sentences

If a feeling and thinking being in the dog-star is born of a tender father and mother, who have labored for his welfare, he owes them as much love and duty as we here owe to our parents. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Light is the same to the dog-star as to us; morality, too, must be the same. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In this sense, Antimachus calls the city of Cadmeans flourishing with fruit; and Aratus, speaking of the dog-star Sirius, says that he ❋ Unknown (2004)

The Etesiae blow after the summer solstice and the rising of the dog-star: not at the time when the sun is closest nor when it is distant; and they blow by day and cease at night. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The murex is caught in the spring-time when engaged in the construction of the honeycomb; but it is not caught at any time about the rising of the dog-star, for at that period it does not feed, but conceals itself and burrows. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Or one may introduce, into a eulogy of the dog, the dog-star; or Pan, because Pindar said: ❋ Aristotle (2002)

The Blood-men are a people that have their name derived from the malignity of their nature, and from the fury that is in them to execute it upon the town of Mansoul: their land lieth under the dog-star, and by that they are governed as to their intellectuals. ❋ Unknown (2001)

At the distance of Sirius (fifty billions of miles) the Sun would shrink to the dimensions of a third-magnitude star, and the light of seventy such stars would be required to equal in appearance the brilliant radiance of the great dog-star. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)

Were some accident to delay for a few months our advices from Europe, I question not but our fashionable ladies would adopt in mid-winter the same form and materials for their dresses which the Parisian damsels sported on the Boulevards beneath the scorching dog-star. ❋ Various (N/A)

In that deadly season of the year, when the dog-star rages with relentless fury, when a pure air is especially necessary to health, the British locked their prisoner, after long marches, in the dungeons of ships affected with contagion, and reeking with the filth of crowded captives, dead and dying. ❋ Danske Dandridge (N/A)

From his observation of the motion of Sirius in 1844, Bessel was led to believe that the brilliant orb was accompanied by another body, whose gravitational attraction was responsible for the irregularities observed in the path of the great dog-star when pursuing his journey through space. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)

They entered, and for the first time since she had known them, Mary thought she saw a trace of excitement in their manner -- such, for instance, as you might expect to see in two learned astronomers who had seen Sirius the dog-star rushing over the heavens in pursuit of the Big ❋ George Weston (N/A)

Sure enough, Phœbe Lonergan, for that was her name, was looking at us; and her eyes were glinting and sparkling blue and green lights, like the dog-star on a frosty night in January. ❋ P.A. Sheehan (N/A)

In this place the burning heat of the dog-star was never felt, and the stormy north was forbidden to scatter over it the frosts of winter. ❋ William Cleaver Wilkinson (N/A)

The _dies caniculares_, or dog-days, were reckoned to begin twenty days before, and to continue for twenty days after, the heliacal rising of Sirius, the dog-star. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)

That is, under the canicular, or dog-star, and before the dog-star, purgations are painfull and difficill. ❋ Edmund Deane (N/A)

For example, verbena or vervain should be gathered at the rising of the dog-star, when neither the sun nor the moon shone, but an expiatory sacrifice of fruit and honey should previously have been offered to the earth. ❋ George Barton Cutten (N/A)

An irregularity of motion resembling that of Sirius has been detected with regard to Procyon, the lesser dog-star. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)

Achilles 'armour to the dazzling brilliancy of the dog-star, finds a place in' Paradise Lost. ' ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)

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