 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 258 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 summils, which, in the last rays of the settiug sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 712 pages
...wives, far and near, as perfect barometers, r 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 light up like... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 1002 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...clear evening sky ; but, sometimes, when the rest qf the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1884 - 988 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 sh ingle-roofs gleam among the trees, ju^t where the blue... | |
 | Pennsylvania railroad co - 1884 - 216 pages
...perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled they are clothed in blue and purple, and paint their bold outlines on the clear evening sky ; but...of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a cloud of glory." Thus writes Washington Irving, than whom none knew the Catskill Mountains better nor... | |
 | Christian Brothers - 1884 - 516 pages
...wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. Wheu 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 gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 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...like a crown of glory. At the foot of these fairy mountains3 the voyager4 now commonly written Ooitkitt. a lording it over. What is the figure? (SeeDef.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 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...like a crown of glory. At the foot of these fairy mountains3 the voyager* 1 Kaatskill: now commonly written CatskiH. 3 fairy mountains: "fairy" in anticipation... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1885 - 224 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... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 440 pages
...is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and paint their bold outlines on the pure evening sky ; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of grey vapours about their summits, which in the last rays of the evening sun will glow and light up... | |
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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... 
