 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1902 - 546 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. If Candlemas... | |
 | United States. Weather Bureau - 1903 - 206 pages
...will then be dear. The shepard would rather pee the wolf enter his fold on Candlemas Day than the sun. If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight. But if Candlemas Day bring clouds and rain, Winter is gone and won't come again. On Candlemas Day the )>ear, badger, or... | |
 | Marie Clothilde Balfour - 1904 - 250 pages
...clear. If Candlemas day be clouds and rain, winter is gone anc will not come again. Proverbs. 17 5 If Candlemas day be fair and bright, winter will have another flight. When Candlemas day is come and gone, the snow lies on a hot stone. February fill dyke, be it black... | |
 | Patrick Maxwell - 1906 - 304 pages
...and mair ; If Candlemas day be wet and foul, The half of winter's gane at yule." Again : And this: "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. "As far as the sun shines... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1907 - 1048 pages
...treasure the rhyming proverbe here quoted goes eommonly and aneiently. —R. Came never wink of sleep. If Candlemas day be fair and bright, winter will have another flight: if on Candlemas day it be shower and rain, ill winter is gone, and will not eome again. The same as... | |
 | Edwin James Houston - 1907 - 404 pages
...There wiJl be twa winters in t\ve • [1873 Or, according to another proverb: " If Candlemas Day is fair and bright, Winter will have another flight. But if Candlemas Day brings clouds and rain, Winter is gone and won't come again." But you may say that such proverbs were... | |
 | Ella Mary Leather - 1912 - 386 pages
...Lean's Collectanea II., ii., 610. 10] Lees, op. cit., 304. March. May. Or:— If Candlemas Day be clear and bright, Winter will have another flight; But if Candlemas Day be thick with rain, Winter is gone and will not come again. If Candlemas Day be fine and clear There'll... | |
 | Pauline Frost Rafter - 1916 - 280 pages
...Jack was second, Dad was last. So he had to pay for all three. TWO PROMISES Candlemas (February 2) If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight; If on Candlemas Day it shower and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again. A LETTER TO MAY ES... | |
 | Viscountess Frances Garnet Wolseley Wolseley - 1921 - 360 pages
...anxiously wished to speed on with his many occupations. PROVERBS " Snow at Candlemas Stops to handle us." " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have...and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again." " When Candlemas Day is come and gone, The snow lies on a hot stone." " The hind would as lief see... | |
 | 1905 - 622 pages
...deservedly rank in ambiguity with any of the far-famed dicta from the tripos of the Delphic oracle.) "If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will...and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again." "February ad bright and clear Gives a good flax year." The following vaticinations are In prosaic form,... | |
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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... 
