单词 | canicular |
例句 | The canicular weather I suffered from in the south followed me even here. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z 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. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville It was midsummer, but no words and no experience of other places can convey an idea of the canicular heat of Jerusalem. Tancred Or, The New Crusade 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 Adj. hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal, thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow. sunny, torrid, tropical, estival†, canicular†, steamy; close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking &c. v.; baking &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Its rectangular avenues—so wide that they afford no protection from the wintry blast nor shelter from the canicular sunshine, and as interminable as a tale in a weekly newspaper—tire me out. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z It is well if your friend, or mistress, be content with these canicular probations. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia |
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