Weather Lore: A Collection of Proverbs, Sayings, and Rules Concerning the WeatherE. Stock, 1898 - 233 pàgines |
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approaching April ARATUS autumn bad weather Banbury barometer birds blow borrowing days bright bring C. L. PRINCE calm Candlemas Day Christmas cirrus cirrus clouds clear cold weather colour comes corn cuckoo damp doth east wind expect rain fall February flowers Folk-Lore follow foreshows foretells foul frogs frost gale halo harvest heavy rain Hymettus indicates rain J. G. Wood's Translation January June Lamb light London March Martinmas mercury mercury falls mild mist moon morning night north wind north-east north-west prognostics Proverbs rain.-BACON rainbow rainy rise Roseberry Topping SCOTLAND September SHAKESPEARE shine showers SHROPSHIRE sign of rain sings Skiddaw snow soon south wind south-east south-west spiders spring stars storm summer sunrise sunset sure SWAINSON tempest THEOPHRASTUS Signs three days thunder thunderstorm Twill unsettled weather warm Weather Lore wet weather WILLSFORD wind and rain windy winter
Passatges populars
Pàgina 61 - He answered and said unto them, "When it is evening ye say, 'It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.
Pàgina 105 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.
Pàgina 105 - And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea like a man's hand.
Pàgina 203 - The moon in halos hid her head ; The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, For see ! a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel.
Pàgina 105 - Sometime, we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants.
Pàgina 135 - A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's warning ; A rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight.
Pàgina 104 - He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth ; he maketh lightnings for the rain ; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
Pàgina 144 - Each cast at the other, as when two black clouds With heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian, then stand front to front Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air...
Pàgina 73 - Late late yestreen I saw the new moone, Wi the auld moone in hir arme, And I feir, I feir, my deir master, That we will cum to harme.' O our Scots nobles wer richt laith To weet their cork-heild schoone ; Bot lang owre a' the play wer playd, Thair hats they swam aboone.
Pàgina 203 - The distant hills are seeming nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ; The busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket too, how sharp he sings ; Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits wiping o'er her whiskered jaws.