Weather Proverbs and ParadoxesWilliams & Wilkins, 1923 - 125 pàgines |
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Pàgina 17 - He answered and said unto them, "When it is evening ye say, 'It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.
Pàgina 41 - The moon and the weather May change together; But change of the moon Does not change the weather. If we'd no moon at all, And that may seem strange, We still should have weather That's subject to change.
Pàgina 69 - I'd divide, And burn in many places ; on the topmast, The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet, and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors O...
Pàgina 33 - Can you explain this omen? Phys. A rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing or depositing the rain are opposite to the sun — and in the evening the rainbow is in the east, and in the morning in the west; and as our heavy rains, in this climate, are usually brought by the westerly...
Pàgina 36 - Last night, the moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see !" The Skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he.
Pàgina 120 - ... the cause of the corresponding temperature minima. At any rate the auroras are then most frequent, and they obviously generate nitrous oxide and other hygroscopic compounds which, because of their density, slowly fall to the cirrus level where they may produce cloud particles in an atmosphere whose humidity is much below that which otherwise would be essential to cloud formation.
Pàgina 4 - What is it moulds the life of man? The weather. What makes some black and others tan? The weather. What makes the Zulu live in trees. And Congo natives dress in leaves While others go in furs and freeze? The weather.
Pàgina 70 - Last night I saw Saint Elmo's stars, With their glimmering lanterns, all at play On the tops of the masts and the tips of the spars, And I knew we should have foul weather to-day.