dog-star

Light is the same to the dog-star as to us; morality, too, must be the same.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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

Symposiacs 2004

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

Essays and Miscellanies 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.

Meteorology 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.

The History of Animals 2002

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

Rhetoric 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.

The Holy War 2001

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.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

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

Mary Minds Her Business George Weston