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 56by Washington Irving - 1820 - 419 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1896 - 374 pages
...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...blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the ' / - / ' ' x ' A /'- •* * tf( -m (j •"•« n^< / r THE SKETCH-BOOK. ./~ * " 1 clear evening sky... | |
| Mary Frances Hyde - 1896 - 296 pages
...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 is fair and settled, they are cloihed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky; bttt- sometimes,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 pages
...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...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 pages
...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...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up... | |
| Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 256 pages
...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...of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a 148 At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up... | |
| Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1897 - 330 pages
...change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the goodwives far and near as perfect barometers. When the weather...blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the evening sky; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of... | |
| James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 pages
...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 is fair and settled, they 10 are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky; but sometimes,... | |
| James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 pages
...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 is fair and settled, they 10 are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky; but sometimes,... | |
| Wells Hawks Skinner - 1897 - 282 pages
...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 is fair and settled, th•y are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky; but... | |
| 1898 - 200 pages
...changes in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the goodwives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather...landscape is cloudless they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up... | |
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