Weather Sayings, Proverbs and Prognostics, Chiefly from North LancashireLancaster, 1883 |
Términos y frases comunes
approach April Three days Autumn bad weather bank of clouds begins to fill birds blow brings Candlemas-day Cattle change of weather cirrus clouds Cloudy mornings cold comes corn begins Cuckoo Curlew dry weather Ducks early East wind expected fair weather fall fine day fine weather Fish foretells rain foul weather fowl Glasson Glow Worm grey halo hills Hoar Frost indicates Janiveer kites Kites fly LANCASHIRE Lancaster long Frost look low ground Mackerel sky March borrowed Michaelmas moon doth night Noah's Ark NORTH LANCASHIRE Porpoises rain will follow rainbow rainy weather rise Robin sings Rooks round the Moon sea fowl seen Sheep Shepherd's shower sign of rain sign of wet smoke snaw snow soon Spiders squalls storm summer sunset sure sign swarm of Bees Swithin's day thunder trees Twill rain weather will follow West wind and rain worth a plough year.-Denham
Pasajes populares
Página 5 - Behold the rooks, how odd their flight, They imitate the gliding kite, And seem precipitate to fall, As if they felt the piercing ball.
Página 5 - And nimbly catch the incautious flies. The glowworms, numerous and bright, Illumed the dewy dell last night. At dusk the squalid toad was seen. Hopping and crawling o'er the green : The whirling wind, the dust obeys, And in the rapid eddy plays ; The frog has changed his yellow vest, And in a russet coat is dressed.
Página 5 - The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket, too, how sharp he sings ! Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits wiping o'er her whiskered jaws.
Página 22 - ST. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair.
Página 22 - A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly.
Página 5 - The hollow winds begin to blow, The clouds look black, the glass is low, The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, And spiders from their cobwebs creep.
Página 29 - There are other signs of a coming change in the weather known less generally than may be desirable, and therefore worth notice ; such as when birds of long flight, rooks, swallows, or others, hang about home, and fly up and down or low — rain or wind may be expected. Also 'when animals seek sheltered places, instead of spreading over their usual range ; when pigs carry...
Página 12 - Or, since that hope denied in worlds of strife, Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life ! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray...
Página 6 - A red morn that ever yet betokened Wreck to the seamen, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gusts and foul flaws to herdsmen and to herds.
Página 5 - Last night the sun went pale to bed ; The moon in halos hid her head. The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, For, see ! a rainbow spans the sky.