starre

Sirius is the brightest star in the sky, ascendant during the "dog days" of July and August, "at which time the Dogge starre, which is called Syrius, or Canicula, reigneth with immoderate heate, causing pestilence, drougth, and many diseases"

The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

The meaning whereof is, that in Iuly the sun is in Leo At which tyme the Dogge starre, which is called Syrius or Canicula reigneth, with immoderate heate causing Pestilence, drought, and many diseases.

Shepheardes Calendar 1579

The idolon exhibisces the seals of his orders: the starre of the Son of Heaven, the girtel of Izodella the Calot-tica, the cross of Michelides Apaleogos, the latchet of Jan of

Finnegans Wake 2006

Nations had those bright lampes of learning (I meane the most ancient and best Philosophers, Historiographers and Geographers) to shewe them light; and the load starre of experience (to wit those great exploits and voyages layed vp in store and recorded) whereby to shape their course: what great attempt might they not presume to vndertake?

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Her selfe (shee said) and all the flowers of _Spayne_, Should vnder his, as heauens Ensigne warre: Thus from her harts foule dunghill flyes amaine Grosse vapours, metamorphosd to a starre; Her words in fumes like prodogies retaine His hart, by her tongues witchcraft bound so farre, And what shee will, that will hee vnder-take, Be it to warre with heauen for her sake.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Moreouer the Captaine hath for his guide eight pilots, the office of whom is alwayes stable and firme from heire to heire, and these goe before guiding the Carouan, and shewing the way, as being well experienced in the place, and in the night they gouerne them as the mariners, by the starre.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

In the moneth of March appeared a blasing starre, first betwéene the east part of the firmament and the

Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed

[Sidenote: One Sunne [.]] starre, and cleare light, haue but one Sunne to gouerne the [m]: who being of a singulare vertue aboue the rest, by his vertue and power, giueth vertue to the reste.

A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

England should be inhabited with strangers, a description of the kings person, of a blasing starre fore-telling his death, the progenie of the Westsaxon kings, how long they continued, the names of their predecessors and successors; whence the first kings of seuen kingdoms of Germanie had their pedegree, &c.

Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed

(Apoc 18) 44 They shal come together against her, and shal compasse her, and shal power out the starre, and al wrath vpon her, and the dust and smoke shal goe vp euen into heauen, and round about shal lament her.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous