"Charles's wain" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "the lack of vigour attendant on the loss of sleep, which is as enfeebling and as distressing as the languor that attends the want of food," they are, to use a homely Scotch expression, "neither to haud nor bind;" the eyes of the young lads being all as brisk, bold, and bright as the stars in Charles's Wain, while those of the young lasses shine with a soft, faint, obscure, but beautiful lustre, like the dewy Pleiades, over which nature has insensibly been breathing a mist almost waving and wavering into a veil ...
— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson
... lights of Charles's Wain, As the hills of the deep 'ud mount and flee. Then swoop down vanishing cliffs again To the ...
— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes
... speak distinctly. No little Gradgrind had ever learnt the silly jingle, Twinkle, twinkle, little star; how I wonder what you are! No little Gradgrind had ever known wonder on the subject, each little Gradgrind having at five years old dissected the Great Bear like a Professor Owen, and driven Charles's Wain like a locomotive engine-driver. No little Gradgrind had ever associated a cow in a field with that famous cow with the crumpled horn who tossed the dog who worried the cat who killed the rat who ate the malt, or with that yet more famous cow who swallowed Tom Thumb: it had never heard of those ...
— Hard Times • Charles Dickens*
... for the progress of the hours, since the constellation of Charles's Wain showed her that it ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... Great Bear, called also Charles's Wain (wagon). "Bootes" is the constellation called "The Waggoner," who is said to be "less fatigued" because he drives the wain higher in ...
— Poemata (William Cowper, trans.) • John Milton
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