 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 160 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 shingleroofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 234 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 - 1894 - 422 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... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 pages
...barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blueand purple, and printtheir bold outlines on the clear evening sky ; but sometimes,...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 - 1894 - 280 pages
...sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of grey vapours about is their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting...fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle-roofs gleam among 20 the trees, just where the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 404 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...the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood " He was a Great Favorite Among all the Children of the Village." From a drawing by FOC Dail,T. * j'xa... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 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...will glow and light up like a crown of glory. At the fooi, of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village,... | |
 | Mary Frances Hyde - 1895 - 246 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...their summits, which in the last rays of the setting sun, wz'// glow and /2£^/ ?</ /z'/£ra crown of glory. — WASHINGTON IRVING. EXERCISE II. "Have,... | |
 | James Cox - 1895 - 420 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 on the clear evening sky, but, sometimes, when the rear of the landscape is clear and cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors which, in the... | |
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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... 
