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" 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 rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits,... "
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent - Page 54
by Washington Irving - 1822 - 393 pages
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The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 2

1821 - 502 pages
...in the ' magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are re' garded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. ' When the weather...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 aud light...
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Travels Through Part of the United States and Canada in 1818 and 1819, Volume 1

John Morison Duncan - 1823 - 760 pages
...change on 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...fair and settled they are clothed in blue and purple, Albany though a small town in comparison of New York, has been for a long time the seat of the State...
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The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History ..., Volume 3

1824 - 394 pages
...hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they arc regarded by all the goodwives, far and near, as perfect...barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they arc clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky ; but sometimes,...
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Legends of Terror!: And Tales of the Wonderful and Wild ; Original and ...

1826 - 654 pages
...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...of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hoorfof grey vapours about theirsummits, which, ш the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 84

1819 - 606 pages
...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 is fair and settled, they are clothed im blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky ; but sometimes, when the...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...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...blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the cleat evening sky ; but sometimes, when the rest of tlie landscape is cloudless, they will gather a...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.], Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 pages
...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...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...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

1839 - 256 pages
...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...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...
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Sketches of the animal and vegetable productions of America

Mary Roberts - 1839 - 312 pages
...the rainbow live. When the weather is fair and settled, the Kaatskills are clothed in varying hues of blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapours about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, glow and light up like...
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Synonymisches Handwörterbuch der englischen Sprache für die Deutschen

H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 pages
...and false. (ТА. Moore's Ireland.) When tbe weather is fair and settled , they (Kaatskill mountains) are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky. •• • •« ••.'< ••:'• (Irm'ng's SB) 1. SKIN, 2. HIDE, 3. PEEL. 4. RIND. \. ^aut/ Sell,...
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