 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1878 - 450 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, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 206 pages
...weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on i0 the clear evening sky; but sometimes, when the rest...foot of these fairy mountains the voyager may have is descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle-roofs gleam among the trees, just... | |
 | Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 186 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...they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their 1 Posthumous (Lat. post, after, posterns, later, postumus m posthiimus, latest, last), born after the... | |
 | 1880 - 516 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...like a crown of glory. At the foot of these fairy a mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle-roofs... | |
 | 1915 - 728 pages
...away. ! — Merchant of Venice. D. When the weather is fair and settled, the mountains are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines...sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory. — Rip Van Winkle. E. "Ay, Moses," cried my wife, "where is the horse?" "I have sold him," cried Moses,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1880 - 444 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...sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory. x At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 508 pages
...concerning the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and the Kyffhauser mountain. 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1880 - 460 pages
...20 , far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled 21 , they are clothed in blue and purple , and print their bold outlines...when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will22 gather a hood of grey vapours about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 970 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...will glow and light up like a crown of glory. At the fool; of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling ujp from a village,... | |
 | Granville series - 1881 - 376 pages
...wives, far and near, as perfect barometers.2 2. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines...when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they gather a hood of grfy vapours about their summits which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will... | |
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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... 
