 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1849 - 308 pages
...custome is of great antiquity, and that it is derived from the gentiles." (Aubrey, MS. Lansd. 231.) If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight. It is generally the case that fine weather continues if it is mild at Candlemas. A somewhat similar... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1849 - 296 pages
...custome is of great antiquity, and that it is derived from the gentiles." (Aubrey, MS. Lansd. 231.) If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight. It is generally the case that fine weather continues if it is mild at Candlemas. A somewhat similar... | |
 | 1855 - 668 pages
...L'ours, qui retourne en sa caverue¿” I add ‘the following Candlemas proverbs from my note-¿book: “if Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight; But if it be daik with clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again.” “On Candlemas Day if... | |
 | P.P. - London. - Notes and Queries - 1859 - 386 pages
...gouverne L'ours, qui retourne en sa caverne." I add the following Candlemas proverbs from my notebook: " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight; But if it be dark with clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again." " On Candlemas Day if the... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 882 pages
...port: " If Candlemas-day be fair and bright. Winter will have another flight ; But if Candlemas-day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again." The next old saw is nearer the truth than either of the preceding; " When Candlerms-day is come and... | |
 | Henry Thomas Riley - 1866 - 572 pages
...Mary, the frost will be greater after the feast than it was before." A mediaeval proverb ; similar to " If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight." — " If you thump a goad with your fists, your hands suffer the most." An evil is aggravated by foolish... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1867 - 462 pages
...it has given rise to several proverbs, among the rest:— 1 Steinmetz, ' Manual of Weathercasts.' " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight." The flowering of the Snowdrop is the harbinger of spring, although, as Mrs. Barbauld fancifully says,... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1873 - 492 pages
...erit glacies post festum quam fuit ante. —a proverb which has thus found its way into English :— If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have...Candlemas day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and wili not come again. I need scarcely say that these are all popular delusions, founded on no reliable... | |
 | 1873 - 892 pages
...Candlemas Day be wet and foul, The half o' winter's gone at Yule. Or as a southern version puts it : If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight : But if it be dark with clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again. This idea is common throughout... | |
 | A. H. W., Facts - 1873 - 478 pages
...is said to be a sign of rain or wind. A metrical proverb, to Ьг found in old almanacks, says :— "If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight ; ]iut if Candlemas day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again." When cats grow... | |
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If Candlemas Day be fair and bright Winter will have another flight; But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again." There is a humorous proverb in Ray's collection, to the same effect:—• " The hind had as licf see... 
