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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.
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By the rising of the Pleiades, denoting the beginning of Summer, and by that of the Dog-star, the declination thereof.
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Her 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.
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The star Sirius—the Dog Star, it's called—it moved a good sixty degrees, then stopped dead!
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An irregularity of motion resembling that of Sirius has been detected with regard to Procyon, the lesser dog-star.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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