 | 1826 - 654 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...of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hoorfof grey vapours about theirsummits, which, ø the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 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... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1829 - 466 pages
...good 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... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1830 - 396 pages
...good 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 320 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...cloudless, they will gather a hood of grey vapours about their summits, which , in the last rays o£ the setting sun , will glow and light up like a crown...fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle-roofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 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... | |
 | 1839 - 256 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... | |
 | Mary Roberts - 1839 - 312 pages
...the rainbow live. When the weather is fair and settled, the Kaatskills are clothed in varying hues of blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapours about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, glow and light up like a crown... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 pages
...(ÒÀ. Moore's Ireland.) When tbe weather is fair and settled , they (Kaatskill mountains) are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky. •• • •« ••.'< ••:'• (Irm'ng's SB) 1. SKIN, 2. HIDE, 3. PEEL. 4. RIND. \. ^aut/ Sell,... | |
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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... 
