Great Dog
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Standing by the Hunter’s foot, the Great Dog is an easy-to-find constellation visible from most areas of the world, thanks to being positioned just south of the celestial equator.
From National Geographic • Aug. 23, 2023
Under the headline “Arrival of the Great Dog Judge,” one article reported that he had crossed the Atlantic “and is now quartered at the Fifth-Avenue Hotel.”
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2015
It was a three-quarter-page colored panel titled The Great Dog Show in M'Googan's Avenue, and peopled with alley cats, stray hounds and slum bums in high-society clothes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lepus is about 18° west of Canis Major, and, by reason of the earth's motion, the Great Dog seems to be pursuing the Hare around the heavens.
From A Field Book of the Stars by Olcott, William Tyler
Great Dog and Mastiff,—began his career with ability and courage; he conquered Brescia to the west, halfway to Milan, and Parma, which lies beyond Mantua.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight
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