| Edward Hungerford Goddard - 1875 - 922 pàgines
...way into English : — " If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight ; Bat if Candlemas day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again." * I must also call attention to the remarkable prejudice against Leap-year, a prejudice as common and... | |
| 1937 - 618 pàgines
...on a hot stone. Candlemas Day the good housewife's goose lay; Valentine's Day, yours and mine, may. If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight; But if it be dark with clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again. On Candlemas Day if the thorns... | |
| 1897 - 680 pàgines
...pale blossom of the unripened year.' ' On Candlemas Day itself, the old metrical proverb is given : " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight ; If Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, U inter's gone and will not come again." Or, as in the writer's... | |
| 1828 - 464 pàgines
...foul, it presaged a mild and gentle season would ensue. Observe the following old saw to this effect : If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight -, If on Candlemas day it be shower and rain, Winter ia gone and will not come agafn. THE BLESSING... | |
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