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" Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains ; and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather... "
Authors' Birthdays: Containing Exercises for the Celebration of the ... - Page 90
by Charles William Bardeen - 1898 - 359 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 34

1820 - 646 pages
...wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of grey vapours about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of grey vapours about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 pages
...wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of grey vapours about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pages
...goodwives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of grey vapours about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up...
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The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 2

1821 - 504 pages
...wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. ' When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and ' purple, and print their bold outlines...landscape is cloudless, they ' will gather a hood of gray vapours about their summits, which, ' in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like...
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The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 2

1821 - 502 pages
...but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they ' will gather a hood of gray vapours about their summits, which, ' in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow aud light up like a ' crown of glory. ' At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have...
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Travels Through Part of the United States and Canada in 1818 and 1819, Volume 1

John Morison Duncan - 1823 - 760 pages
...town, taking precedence of the younger commercial or manufacturing cities, which have greatly outgrown and print their bold outlines on the clear evening...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapours about their summits, which in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...goodvvives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of grey vapours about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up...
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The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History ..., Volume 3

1824 - 394 pages
...goodwives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they arc clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of grey vapours about their summits, which in Hie last rays of the setting sun will glow and light up...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 84

1819 - 606 pages
...wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed im blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gxey vapours about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up...
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