"Great bear" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... neighboring settler to dispose of it, leaving his wife to take care of the rest until his return. She sat carelessly upon the log with his hunting knife in her hand, when she heard the breaking of branches near her, and turning round, beheld a great bear only a few paces ...
— Woman on the American Frontier • William Worthington Fowler
... the archer, pulling on his clothes, "I have come well out of the business. I would sooner wrestle with the great bear of Navarre." ...
— The White Company • Arthur Conan Doyle
... great bear clan of many nations, why is the symbol that you wear familiar to me—and yet ...
— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers
... Orion, This starry night?' 'The Ram, the Bull and the Lion, And the Great Bear,' says Orion, 'With my starry quiver and beautiful belt I am trying to find a good thick pelt To warm my shoulders tonight, To warm ...
— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 - Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh • Various
... attir'd, demanded a private Audience of the High Priest of the Stars. Upon her first Admittance into his august and venerable Presence, she address'd herself in the following Terms. O thou first-born and well-beloved Son of the Great Bear, Brother of the Bull, and first Cousin to the Dog, (these you must know were the Pontiff's high Titles) I come to confess myself before you: My Conscience is my Accuser, and I am terribly afraid I have been guilty of a mortal Sin, by declining the stated Custom of burning my self on my Husband's ...
— Zadig - Or, The Book of Fate • Voltaire
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