These white spots appear only in mid-summer, which would argue against the idea of their being snow caps, as in mid-summer they would certainly melt and disappear.
At once, as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind falls, and serenity succeedsthe storm.
Or if the heavens are overcast, it is no wild storm of wind and rain; but clouds that melt and fall in showers.
The outer semblance of the old earth appeared to melt away and reveal that heart of clean and dazzling wonder which burns ever at its inmost core--the naked spirit divined by poets and mystics since the beginning of time.
Some good cooks say that bad butter may be purified in the following manner: Melt and skim it, then put into it a piece of well-toasted bread; in a few minutes the butter will lose its offensive taste and smell; the bread will absorb it all.
Pick suet free from veins and skin, melt it in water before a moderate fire, let it cool till it forms into a hard cake, then wipe it dry, and put it in clean paper in linen bags.
Melt the sugar, skim it, throw in the barberries; when done soft, take them out, and throw in others.
If you wish to salt fat pork, scald coarse salt in water and skim it, till the salt will no longer melt in the water.
Very hard and durable candles are made in the following manner: Melt together ten ounces of mutton tallow, a quarter of an ounce of camphor, four ounces of beeswax, and two ounces of alum.
O glance on these sad shades one pitying ray, To blast the fury of oppressive might, Melt the hard heart to love and mercy's sway, And cheer the wandering soul, and light him on the way!
Free let the feathery race indulge the song, Inhale the liberal beam, andmelt in love: Free let the fleet hind bound her hills along, And in pure streams the watery nations rove.
It is a shower of morning manna, which no after fervours of noon, or chills of evening, are able to melt or freeze.
For fairyland is a cool, comfortable place, and big, hot Ogres melt it away like an ice palace.
The woods are like fairy woods now, just as if the fairies had hung them with glittering jewels, for they are covered with snow and frost, and icicles, too, when the snow on the boughs has begun to melt and then been frozen again.
THE LAST MAN All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality!
It is solid at common temperatures, and begins to melt at about 70 degrees.
Why, Ma Perkins kin act like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, if she wants to.
The one thing that is lacking now beside this mountain stream is some fruit more luscious and dainty than grows in the tropics, to melt upon the lips and fill the mouth with pleasure.
A violent west wind was blowing, and the temperature must have been pretty low, for a big icicle at once enveloped the lower half of my face, and did not melt till I got to the bottom of the cone four hours afterwards.
Thy golden fortunes, tower they now, Or melt the glittering spires in air?
The falls seem to meltaway before they touch the reality of earth, veritable spirits, born of the snowdrift and the sun; white ghosts spending themselves in spray to reascend into the clouds.
Here the sordid world seems to melt away; the sunshine has got into our blood and the transfiguring haze has penetrated even to our hearts.
Wouldn't it all melt before he could get it over to America?
If it don't melt here in summer time why should it melt anywhere else?
Your hearts will melt together in that blessed union which raises earth so near to heaven; and then you will wonder you could ever be jealous of poor Josephine, who must never hope--ah, me!
Why don't they melt their silver into soup, and cut down their plate into rashers of bacon?
To keep it, do not let it freeze, and if not covered with grease melt some lard and pour over, or it will mold.
For a long time we had collected our water from the beautiful fresh pools of the icebergs and floes; now we had to quarry out the blocks in flinty, glassy lumps, and then melt it in tins for our daily drink.
Look upon her with thy face of love and sorrow that thou didst turn on him who denied thee, and melt her hard heart.
Adam had brought himself to think of seeing Hetty, if she would consent to see him, because he thought the meeting might possibly be a good to her--might help to melt away this terrible hardness they told him of.
They meltinto the starry glooms, and throb through the dim spaces of the woods like golden bubbles or the wavering flight of butterflies.
Far to the west the White mountains meltupon the horizon in airy outline of blue, and over all each day is repeated the ancient miracle of the sun's decline.
She could sing "Allan Percy" in a way that would melt the heart within you.
Then, suddenly, the gray clouds seemed to melt into the liquid blue of the sky, while against the sides of the purple mountains only one long streak of vapor rested, like the shroud of a giant.
When my sympathies threaten to melt my judgments I shall think of your theological heathen who rose superior to his instructors, able to grasp so cleverly the pleasant features of Christianity without its inconveniences.
And now, as he leaned back looking at her, his intellect seemed to melt away gradually and merge in dreamy sense.
There was an art in Nature's way; for, lest a joyousness so brimming and so tender should melt and overflow into mere pathos, it was bounded and restrained by that solemn and tragic line of Muttersmoor drawn straight against the sky.
Positively she seemed to melt and grow softer by sheer contact; and presently she smiled a sweet diminutive smile that didn't uncover more than two of her little white teeth.
At last she could stand the nagging no longer, and although her little sister tried very hard to prevent her, the fat woman went out into the sun to work, and immediately began to melt away.
It can be crystallized on cooling in an ice bath; the crystals meltat 230.
But as he approached Sibyll, poor Alwyn felt all the firmness and courage he had exhibited with Hastings melt away.
But there is a glamour in this, believe me, that must melt away soon or late, and our kingly Edward recover his senses.
And if Vulcan were to stand over them with his fire and forge, and offer to melt them down and run them together, and of two to make them one again, they would both say that this was just what they desired!
Even supposing the war should end to-morrow, and the army melt into the mass of the population within the year, what an incalculable preponderance will there be of military titles and pretensions for at least half a century to come!
The beautiful crystals all melt away, and the places where they lay are silently made ready to be submerged in new drifts of summer verdure.
The mercury was sometimes -32°; no fire could keep them warm at night, and often they had no fire, being scarcely able to find wood enough to melt the snow for drink.
Let it melt out and float away in the spring," Mary said.
This prescription is said to cure wrinkles: Take one ounce of white wax and melt it to a gentle heat.
