Thesaurus / Dog Star
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The wild beasts are driven out of these places, at the time of the rising of the dog-star, by large gnats.
THE GEOGRAPHY OF STRABO, VOLUME III (OF 3)STRABOBy the rising of the Pleiades, denoting the beginning of Summer, and by that of the Dog-star, the declination thereof.
THE WORKS OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE (VOLUME 2 OF 3)THOMAS BROWNEHer tanned hide braves the heats of the dog-star, and, in the evening, she arrives as fresh as if she had just risen from bed.
THE SONNETS, TRIUMPHS, AND OTHER POEMS OF PETRARCHPETRARCHThe star Sirius—the Dog Star, it's called—it moved a good sixty degrees, then stopped dead!
TO REMEMBER CHARLIE BYROGER DEEAn irregularity of motion resembling that of Sirius has been detected with regard to Procyon, the lesser dog-star.
THE ASTRONOMY OF MILTON'S 'PARADISE LOST'THOMAS ORCHARDHow many of our vaunted educated population could point out the Dog-star in the heavens?
THE SOLUTION OF THE PYRAMID PROBLEMROBERT BALLARDPorphyrius tells us that to the Egyptians the rising of the Dog-star was the beginning of the world.
THE HISTORY OF ANTIQUITY, VOL. I (OF VI)MAX DUNCKERThe Dog-star proclaimed the approach of the inundation and the new fertilization of the soil, and by proclaiming caused it.
THE HISTORY OF ANTIQUITY, VOL. I (OF VI)MAX DUNCKERHence the periods of the world must proceed according to a number of periods fixed by the Dog-star.
THE HISTORY OF ANTIQUITY, VOL. I (OF VI)MAX DUNCKERPerhaps, Padre, Brian wrote you about his wonderful pet, that he thought worthy to name after the dog-star Sirius.
EVERYMAN'S LANDC. N. WILLIAMSON AND A. M. WILLIAMSON