canicular days. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The canicular heat of the Deep South. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Summer in the canicular South of France requires an extra-strength solution!. From Wordnik.com. [French Destinations] Reference
Tiltass, but are you solarly salemly sure, beyond the shatter of the canicular year?. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
That is, under the canicular, or dog-star, and before the dog-star, purgations are painfull and difficill. From Wordnik.com. [Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain] Reference
It was midsummer, but no words and no experience of other places can convey an idea of the canicular heat of Jerusalem. From Wordnik.com. [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference
During the canicular heat of August, many of the town's residents venture to the local swimming hole in search of a way to stay cool. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Marietta A Maid of Venice] Reference
By comparing two successive years they could of course have got at a sidereal year; but this is what they did not do; hence the irregularity which produced the canicular cycle. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Marietta A Maid of Venice] Reference
By this practice it failed not soon to be found that, although the reäppearance of the star for three successive years was at the end of three hundred and sixty-five days, it would, on the fourth year, be delayed one day longer; and, after repeated observation of this phenomenon, they added six hours to the computed duration of the year, and established the canicular period of four years, consisting of one thousand four hundred and sixty-one days. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.] Reference
The dry earth pants against the canicular heat. From Wordnik.com. [Poems 1918-21] Reference
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