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Significados de Charles's Wain em inglês

A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major.

        Uso de Charles's Wain em inglês
        1
        We name the same constellation diversely, as Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper.
        Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
        2
        One witness names the stars 'Great Bear'; one calls them ' Charles's Wain'; one calls them the 'Dipper.'
        Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
        3
        If I wish to ennoble the heavens by the constellations I see there, ' Charles's Wain' would be more true than 'Dipper.'
        Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
        4
        I turn away my head, and look out of the window up at Charles's Wain, and all my other bright old friends.
        Nancy: A Novel
        5
        What did she care for the progress of the hours, since the constellation of Charles's Wain showed her that it was past midnight?
        Arachne — Volume 03
        6
        I am the hero of the crowds, as, on my trusty aeroplane, I cleave a pathway through the clouds, to Milky Way and Charles's Wain.
        Rippling Rhymes
        7
        Charles's Wain, Great Bear, Orion, Leo, Hercules: every god will leave us.
        Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader / B...
        8
        Charles's Wain lay inverted in the northern horizon; Bootes had driven his sparkling herd down the slope of the western sky.
        The Golden Dog
        9
        Charles's Wain, burning low on the gorges of the Edough, seems like a golden waggon rolling through the fields of Heaven.
        Saint Augustin
        10
        We shall find all their teams going the other way,-Charles'sWain, Great Bear, Orion, Leo, Hercules: every god will leave us.
        Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
        11
        "But I know," said he, "that it has something to do with the Great Bear, and the Dipper, and the Plough, and Charles's Wain."
        The Book of Dragons