 | 1892 - 616 pages
...hind had as lief see his wife on the bier, As that Candlemas Day should be pleasant and clear. BK. 23. If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, . Winter will...clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again.—BD. i. 104. Or— ... on Candlemas Day it be shower and rain, I11 winter is gone, etc.—BC.... | |
 | G. F. Northall - 1892 - 584 pages
...hind had as lief see his wife on the bier, As that Candlemas Day should be pleasant and clear. BK. 23. If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have...clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again.—BD. i. 104. Or— ... on Candlemas Day it be shower and rain, 1ll winter is gone, etc.—BC.... | |
 | G. F. Northall - 1892 - 590 pages
...The hind had as lief see his wife on the bier, As that Candlemas Day should be pleasant and clear. If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have...another flight; But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, BK. 23. Or— ... on Candlemas Day it be shower and rain, III winter is gone, etc.—BC. 226. If Candlemas... | |
 | William Ralston Balch - 1895 - 836 pages
...as the weather may be propitious or otherwise: ** If Candlemas Day be fair and bright. Winter witl have another flight; But if Candlemas Day be clouds...and rain. Winter is gone, and will not come again. 3. St. Blaise, Bishop of Sebaste, in Armenia, suffered martyrdom, ad 316. He was cruelly tortured,... | |
 | 1896 - 300 pages
...people's lives are those when they are (perhaps unconsciously) expecting something.—FF Montressor. If Candlemas day be fair and bright, winter will have another flight ; if on Candlemas day It be shower and rain, winter is gone, and will not come again. Original in Gooo... | |
 | 1897 - 1030 pages
...o' winter's to come and mair ; If Candlemas Day be wet and foul, The hatf o' winter's gane at Yule. 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 wilt not come again. The hind had as lief see... | |
 | 1897 - 680 pages
...pale blossom of the unripened year." On Candlemas Day itself, the old metrical proverb is given : " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight; If Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, \V inter's gone and will not come again." Or, as in the writer's... | |
 | 1898 - 426 pages
...of them had two-and-thirty, They'd be just as wet and twice as dirty." Filially, an old rhyme reads: "If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight; But if it be dark, with clouds of rain, Winter is gone, and won't come again. " Candlemas Day comes on February... | |
 | 1898 - 728 pages
...for days. 1. When Janiveer calends are summerly gay There's winterly weather till calends of May. 2. If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight. If on Candlemas day it be shower and rain, Winter is gone; he will not come again. 4. Saint Matthei... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1902 - 550 pages
...Clara dies Pauli multas segetes notat anni Si fuerint nebulae, aut venti erunt proelia genti. Feb. 2. If Candlemas day be fair and bright, winter will have another flight; if on Candlemas day it be shower and rain, winter is gone and will not come again.—R., 1678. there... | |
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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... 
