 | 1835 - 638 pages
...sometimes, when the os^ of the landscape is cloudless, they will gathe^Pliood of gray vapors ahout their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting...sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory." The traveller, as be looks from the shore of the river to the broad woody sides of this mighty mountain... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 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...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 - 1848 - 482 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...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 - 1848 - 518 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...fairy mountains, the voyager may have . descried the light smoke curling up from a villnge, whose shingle-roof's gleam among the trees, just where the blue... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 544 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...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 - 1850 - 534 pages
...fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clea;- evening sky ; but sometimes, when the rest of the...fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle-rjofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 488 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 on the clear evenlag sky ; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...landseape is clondless, they will gather a hood of ,üroy vapours about their summits which, in thfi last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light...of glory. At the foot of these fairy mountains, the vovager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shinglerooi's gleam among... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 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 li^ht up like... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 518 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 gray vapors about their summits, which, in the host rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory. At the foot of these fairy... | |
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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... 
