In those halcyon days of the free trade, the fixed price for carrying a box of tea or bale of tobacco from the coast of Galloway to Edinburgh was fifteen shillings, and a man with two horses carried four such packages.
During thishalcyon period, in which Mr. Hawkehurst cultivated alternately the society of the Muses and his mistress, he saw little or nothing of George Sheldon.
Those dark days which succeeded Christmas were a period of halcyon peace for Valentine and Charlotte.
They say, ill news spreads fast: He whom the tidings then will halcyon Knows of his weal as soon as he his woe.
But these halcyontimes are of the past--and so, verily, are their heroes.
A Senator, therefore, from California or Oregon has not altogether a bad place; but the halcyondays of mileage allowances are, I believe, soon to be brought to an end.
Another belief, which, strange to say, still holds its own in England, is that a dead halcyon hung up will turn its beak always in the direction of the wind.
Halcyon daughter of the skies, Far on fearful wings she flies, From the pomp of Sceptered State, From the Rebel's noisy hate.
Amid the howl of more than wintry storms, The halcyon hears the voice of vernal hours Already on the wing.
The beautiful white-breasted kingfisher, (Halcyon smyrnensis) is now busy at its nest.
Even as January in northern India may be compared to a month made up of English May days and March nights, so may the Indian February be likened to a halcyon month composed of sparkling, sun-steeped June days and cool starlit April nights.
Halcyon to the Army Mule are monotonous days in camp, when they bring surcease of torment as well as toil; red-lettered if therewithal be brought, by rare concatenation, such plethora of long forage as drowns vicissitude in bright beatitude.
Well says Horace, as translated by Cowley: The halcyon sleep will never build his nest In any stormy breast.
The cove and the gorge were still in deep shadow; but on the slopes above toward the east bright sunlight was hanging the trees with emeralds beneath a blue sky, and seaward the halcyon had lulled the waves for her azure nesting.
This is just a halcyon day, but there will soon be stormy days again.
These reflections have been called up by the reminiscence of the manner in which the Halcyon and Shattuck boat club races of St. Paul's were conducted three weeks ago.
The first race of the day at this regatta was a contest between the Halcyon and Shattuck four-oared shells, which was easily won by the former, in 11 min.
The outcome replaced the Shattuck blue above the Halcyon crimson--the latter having been the champions for the past four years.
These little pleasantries are echoes of the halcyon days when Steele thought Savage a very fine fellow, made him an allowance and even proposed to become the poet's father-in-law.
He has a whimsical, good-humoured face, perhaps showing the rubicund effects of steady drinking (as whose features did not in those halcyon times of merry nights and tired mornings?
Those were Salem's halcyon days, when the tide of life ebbed and flowed in uneventful harmony, free from the disturbing elements of latter-day life.
These were halcyon days in Salem, "before the great tide of East India trade had ebbed away, leaving Derby Street stranded, its great wharves given over to rats and the slow lap of the water among the dull green piles.
This persistent swearing may sound curious to the student of to-day, but in thosehalcyon days everybody swore.
In those halcyon days cafés remained open all night, and three a.
On that day there stood upon the deck of the Halcyon a young man, who gazed on the distant coasts of Wales apparently with deep emotion.
But, good God, Mr. Dulberry, you can hardly suppose that the boiler of the Halcyon was in the pay of my Lord Londonderry?
But I am afraid the halcyon light that paused and passed on in those centuries will never return.
A whiff of balsam is an invitation to share the abandon of the woods, and awakens memories of the halcyon days, the shining hours, when nutting and berrying were the real things of life.
I obtained here eight species of Kingfishers; among which was a very beautiful new one, named by Mr. Gould, Halcyon fulgidus.
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