Well, when we have the first wreath made, then, and not until then, will I tell you what they say of the youth and maiden who weave autumn leaves for each other, and together.
We will linger here in this delightful spot, and I will gather you some autumn leaves," cried Harry.
Twas decreed that fate should part us Ere the leaves of autumn fell, And two loving hearts were severed, That had loved each other well.
They were just about to part when Iris happened to think that Kendal had not told her what was said of those who gather and weave autumn leaves together, as he had promised.
To this pleasant spot George Washington journeyed often in vacation time, and there he came to live and further pursue his studies, after leaving school in the autumn of 1747.
The main army, therefore, remained quiet, and when the autumn had passed went into winter-quarters in well-posted detachments about New York.
A detachment, sent forward contrary to his views, met with the fate of Braddock, and as the summer passed, and autumn changed to winter, it looked as if nothing would be gained in return for so much toil and preparation.
How long, lovely, and glowing has our autumn been, with its dreamy days and soft shadowy mists.
They, the places, will not look half so pretty in the autumn as in the spring, but that won't make much difference to them.
Then there was a solemn stillness, in which one could hear a pin drop, followed by the stir of the rising of the vast audience, like nothing that I can think of save the rustling of the leaves of a forest swept over by an autumn storm.
On either side late autumn flowers were blooming, the box hedges were a deep, waxen green, and gave forth a rich, aromatic odor.
And so began a friendship destined to last as long as the girls lived, and the glorious autumn days were filled with delights for them both.
Naturally, Polly had learned the entire score, for one afternoon during the past autumn while the girls were riding through the beautiful woodlands near Severndale, Polly had whistled an answer to a bob-white's call.
But her meditations had nothing to do with the rug where the broom rested, nor yet with the sun-lit slope of the Blue Ridges that extended in all their wealth of autumn beauty in front of the open windows.
Mistress Amanda and her mother were in their pew, with Nellie between them, charming as the spirit of October, in a carefully turned claret-colored poplin and a toque trimmed with autumn leaves.
Mr. Anderton, who had now resolved to settle in London for the autumn and winter, went so far as to take a ready-furnished house at Notting Hill, for the express purpose of having his new professor in his immediate neighbourhood.
The principal season at Bognor is during the Goodwood races, and there are very few visitors there in the autumn and winter.
The personal rule of Charles and his Ministers, Laud and Strafford, came to an end in the autumn of 1640, when there was no choice left to the King but to summon Parliament, if money was to be obtained.
It was autumn now, and sleepless nights drove him to a doctor, who prescribed cold baths, perfect quiet, sleeping draughts, iron and arsenic.
Calm, golden autumn days; one farm above another rising up towards the crest of the range, all set in ripe yellow fields.
Chapter XI One evening in the late autumn Merle was sitting at home waiting for her husband.
The town lay down there in theautumn darkness under a milk-white mist of light.
Late in the autumn came the confirmation, and the old wooden church, with its tarred walls, nestled among its mighty tree-tops, sent its chimes ringing and ringing out into the blue autumn air.
But I say, Louise--there's another Holm entered for the autumn term.
At last, one autumn day, when the woods stood yellow all around the town, Peer drove away from his home with a big new travelling-trunk strapped to the driver's seat.
And on autumn evenings you look up at the stars, and the light and the death and the dizzy abysses of space above you send a solemn thrill through your soul.
And in the autumn to see them return, grey goose, starling, wagtail, and all the rest.
And whatever power and might he gained, he could never stand in autumn evenings and lift up his finger and make all the stars break into song.
They sat there alone in the golden autumn day, her head pressed against his shoulder.
It was not till afterwards, when the lamp was out, that they noticed that the autumn gales had set in, and there was a loud north-wester howling over the housetops.
Mr. Lawes’ first systematic experiment on wheat, commenced in the autumn of 1843.
On this rich land, especially on the moist low land, the rye makes a great growth during our warmautumn weather.
The rye checks the growth of weeds, and furnishes a considerable amount of succulent food for sheep, during the autumn or in the spring.
Dry weather in the autumn was the real cause of the poor yield of wheat this year.
On such strong land as that of Mr. Lawes, we ought to plow the land in the autumn and again in the spring, or at least stir up the land thoroughly with a two or three-horse cultivator or gang-plow.
But for sowing in theautumn on winter-wheat the ammonia is to be preferred.
In our climate, I am inclined to think, it would be better to apply the manure to the land for potatoes the autumn previous.
Dead lie the dreams we cherished, The dreams we loved so well; Like forest leaves they perished, Like autumn leaves they fell.
Is it tragic grief that saddens Through your souls this autumn day?
Now November heavens are gray; Autumn kills Every joy--like leaves of May In the rills.
When autumn came I was so much worse that Geheimrath von Ammon, a learned and experienced physician, recalled his advice that my mother and I should spend the winter in the south.
In the autumn the observation of the chrysalis state of insects was connected with that of the various stages of their existence.
As he stood there holding his breath, bending to look at her, that slurring swish of the plane-tree branch, flung against and against the window by the autumn wind, seemed filling the whole world.
Autumn would soon be gone, and after Autumn--only Winter!
No more than in the flights of autumn birds, swooping down, alighting here and there, passing on.
No gun was fired; rabbits, pigeons, even the few partridges enjoyed those first days of autumn unmolested.
Why had he not realized long ago that youth was over, passion done with, autumn upon him?
But no good citizen was abroad of an autumn night in a bitter easterly wind.
All the autumn of last year he had felt this vague misery rather badly.
The rain which filled it must have been some isolated waterspout on the eastern slope of Jebel Hauran, for not a drop fell anywhere else; and there is no autumngrass except just along its edge.
His object in visiting Damascus was as follows: in the course of the autumn a detachment of fifteen Turkish soldiers attacked his camp without provocation and, firing into it, killed a woman and a child.
It is true that in the spring the herbage grows luxuriantly on these steppes, but it is soon parched by the glow of summer, and after a scanty second growth in the autumn it succumbs to the snow storms of the long winter.
Afterwards we forded the Run, and at six o'clock, having marched eighteen miles, went into camp at Bristow Station, on the field where the Second Corps achieved a brilliant victory the autumn before.
The wind of autumn ran steadily through the shrubby weedy lawn with a sigh that had in it the very essence of sadness.
The shadow of a doubt floated in the autumn sun-light.
The apples were ripe and ready to be gathered into the cellars; their mellow fragrance flavored the autumn air so delicately that Zach said it smelt sweeter than an oven full of sugar cakes.
Indeed, that hot aguish autumn day let fall its sunshine on the heads and blew its feverish breath through the rifts of the greatest and liveliest mass of people ever assembled in Howard county.
His face thus upturned to heaven, he watched two crows drift over, high up in the torrid reaches of autumn air, hot as summer, even hotter, and allowed his lips free privilege to anathematize his luck.
But at length, toward the middle of autumn the end came.
Although it occurred on the Cornish moors, it might have chanced on Dartmoor, in one of its mires, for the character of both is the same, and I was engaged in the same autumn on both sets of moors.
Bennett Dawe, of Hill, near Ashburton, together with his family, saw one on several nights in succession in the autumn of 1898.
Autumn darkened into winter and winter cleared into spring, and daffodils and crocuses and primroses began to show themselves in corners of the old-world garden, and tiny gossamer garments in corners of the dark old house.
These postulated conditions are duplicated in part in autumnalong the Atlantic coast of the eastern United States.
In the autumn of the year 1858, we went for a little tour in Switzerland and Northern Italy.
One autumn Sohn came to us accompanied by his friend, the great artist, Lessing.
The next year, up to the autumn of 1859, was the very best and happiest of his short life, and during the summer we soon began to hope once more that he might after all perhaps get well.
The men who were waiting for him saw him at a distance, and 'twas noted how often he turned and looked back at his old tower, whose gray stones were touched by the soft autumn moonbeams, as though he were bidding it a long farewell.
It was now past midsummer, and in autumn the Northern Sea was wont to be wild and stormy, and on the skilful steering of the Royal bark many precious lives depended.
Volumes announced for publication in the autumn of 1921 are listed here, although in some cases they had not yet appeared at the time this book went to press.
When he took his seat in Congress, in the autumn of 1823, the intrigues for the presidential succession were at their height.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "autumn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
