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
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
It forms part of the constellation of the Great Dog, and lies to the south of Orion near the extreme limit of our vision into the Southern hemisphere in our latitudes.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.
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