If he really did take such a precaution, it was totally superfluous; at least so says the authentic old legend, which closes his story in the following manner: One hot summer afternoon in the dog-days, just as a terrible black thunder-gust was coming up, Tom sat in his counting-house, in his white linen cap and India silk morning-gown.

Each one of those foul-mouthed, mangy dogs Governs a day (no dog but hath his day): And all the days by them so governed The dog-days hight; infectious fosterers Of meteors from carrion that arise, And putrified bodies of dead men, Are they engender'd to that ugly shape, Being nought else but [ill-]preserv'd corruption.

While dog-days last, the harvest safely thrives; The sun burns hot to finish up fruits' growth; There is no blood-letting to make men weak.

This is the antarctic dog-days, Gar'ner," answered Daggett, laughing, "and we must make the most of them.

Suddenly, the wind ceased, the snow lessened in quantity, soon clearing away altogether; and the rays of the sunand this in the dog-days of that region, be it rememberedfell bright and genial on the glittering scene.

I suppose it must come of their turning the months round, and having their winter in the midst of the dog-days.

At his challenge he shows his metal, for, contrary to all rules of physic, he dares bleed, though it be in the dog-days.

To shake in dog-days, in December sweat.

As I live she has got her a goodly protection, and a gracious; and may use her body discreetly, for her healths sake, once a week, excepting Lent and Dog-days: Oh if they were to be got for mony, what a great sum would come out of the City for these Licences? King.

* I would no more bring a new work out in summer than I would sell pork in the dog-days.

The dog-days are always busy times for the Dogs of War, and the last month of the third year opened with the new Russian Offensive under Brusiloff, and closed with the beginning of the Third Battle of Ypres.

But there are dog-days coming.

A political dinner of thirty colleagues, male and female, in the dog-days is only a shade less intolerable than the greasy rations and mephitic vapours of the House of Commons' dining-room.

A pan of drinking water left in the larder will always prevent its running out and biting someone during the dog-days.

Thirst, intolerable and choking, was a greater pain in those hot dog-days and in those tedious interminable journeys.

[Footnote 4: Or the dog-days.

I generally lay aside the Dog-days and the hot Time of the Summer for the teaching this Part of the Exercise; for as soon as ever I pronounce Flutter your Fans, the Place is fill'd with so many Zephyrs and gentle Breezes as are very refreshing in that Season of the Year, tho' they might be dangerous to Ladies of a tender Constitution in any other.

In March and April he was as various as the Weather; In May and part of June I found him the sprightliest best-humoured Fellow in the World; In the Dog-Days he was much upon the Indolent; In September very agreeable but very busy; and since the Glass fell last to changeable, he has made three Appointments with me, and broke them every one.

If any one had told him in the dog-days of July that it was still April, he would only have answered gently that it was bright, warm weather for the time of year.

I guess a habit of mind has grown up which I shall never break off; the moment I begin sowing turnips I think of my mother bringing forth her only child in the heat of dog-days, and of the sweat of suffering on her forehead as she listened to my first cry.

See DOG-DAYS.

I generally lay aside the Dog-days and the hot Time of the Summer for the teaching this Part of the Exercise; for as soon as ever I pronounce Flutter your Fans, the Place is fill'd with so many Zephyrs and gentle Breezes as are very refreshing in that Season of the Year, tho' they might be dangerous to Ladies of a tender Constitution in any other.

At the hottest moment of the twenty-four hours, and in the dog-days, when the rays of a scalding sun pour down upon roof and wall and tower like molten lead, searching out each crack and cranny with cruel persistence, the marchesa was wont stealthily to descend into the very bowels, as it were, of that great body corporate, the Guinigi Palaceto see with her own eyes if her orders were obeyed.

Each valley has its tributary stream, down which, even in the dog-days, cool breezes rustle.

I believe the people will continue to come into this crowded town, until it gets to be as pestilent as Rotterdam in the dog-days.