How To Use Canicular In A Sentence
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And now in the torrid heat of summer, the canicular days being at hand, the furnaces in the glass-house of the said Angelo have been extinguished.
Marietta A Maid of Venice
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Tiltass, but are you solarly salemly sure, beyond the shatter of the canicular year?
Finnegans Wake
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the canicular heat of the Deep South
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canicular days
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That is, under the canicular, or dog-star, and before the dog-star, purgations are painfull and difficill.
Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain
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So that henceforth let no man feare to take either easie purgatives, or other inward Physicke, in the time of the canicular, or dog-dayes.
Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain
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Notice of a case in which the larvæ of a dipterous insect, supposed to be _Anthomyia canicularis_, Meig., were expelled in large quantities from the human intestines.
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The point, however, was that they had changed places; Maggie had from her window, seen her stepmother leave the house -- at so unlikely an hour, three o'clock of a canicular August, for a ramble in garden or grove -- and had thereupon felt her impulse determined with the same sharpness that had made the spring of her companion's three weeks before.
The Golden Bowl — Complete
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Summer in the canicular South of France requires an extra-strength solution!
French Destinations
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The term "dog days" was coined by the ancient Romans, who called these hot and humid days caniculares dies or "days of the dogs" after the star Sirius -- Canis Majoris, the "Greater Dog," which is one of the hunting dogs of Orion.
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Canicularis terras excoquit, et siccat flumina, ipse securus sedet sub arborea fronde, et ad doloris sui solatium, naribus suis gramineas redolet species, pascit oculos herbarum amiena viriditas, aures suavi modulamine demulcet pictarum concentus avium, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Zorzi, called the Ballarin, although he has removed from the furnace of the said Angelo the glass which was to be kept hot, does insolently and defiantly refuse to put out the fire in the said furnace, and forces the boys to make the fire all night, to the great injury of their health, because the canicular days are approaching.
Marietta A Maid of Venice
