 | Penny readings - 1866 - 304 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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 260 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... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm P. Oertel - 1870 - 244 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... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 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...fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingleroofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...but sometimes, when the rest of the laudscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of grav vapours about their summits, which, in the last rays of the...glory. ' At the foot of these fairy mountains the traveller may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle roofs gleam among... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in bine f covetous desires, to sully and dash out the dissembling colours of a l >jmetimes, when the rest of the landscape is ol»udlesb, they will gather a hood of gray vapours about... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 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 vapouis about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up... | |
 | 1873 - 304 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...of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the hist rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory." True indeed is it that... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...IttVliro. Set Page 1.] WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill Mountains. At the foot of these 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 - 1878 - 152 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... | |
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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... 
