 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 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... | |
 | Cecil R. Roseberry - 1982 - 344 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. Irving can hardly be censured for mistaking the Catskills for a branch of the Appalachians, since they... | |
 | Washington Irving, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - 1983 - 52 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 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, Thea Kliros - 1995 - 84 pages
...goodwives, 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 - 1998 - 840 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... | |
 | Thomas Locker, Candace Christiansen - 1998 - 40 pages
...lording it over the surrounding country. . . . 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. — , --W "^.^^ Washington Irwng made his home in the Hudson River valley of New York. His Rip Van... | |
 | 1998 - 272 pages
...Catskills, "these fairy mountains," Irving wrote: "When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines...setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory."18 The Catskill Mountains and Hudson Valley were reputedly populated by mischievous, impish... | |
 | Paul Downes - 2002 - 255 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. (769) In retrospect, this opening description not only serves to remind us that Nicholas Vedder's "perfectly... | |
 | Ian Marshall - 2003 - 292 pages
...shapes" that serve "as perfect barometers," for "when the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines...setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory."25 Obviously, this is an appreciative description in the sublime mode, indistinguishable perhaps... | |
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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... 
