The sky had been for some time overcast, and snow began to fall heavily; but their fire blazed up brightly, and as they sat close round it, enjoying its warmth, they cared little for the thick flakes which passed by them.
No sooner did the first faint streaks of dawn appear in the sky than he aroused the boy.
The sky was clear, and the sun enabled him to direct his course with tolerable accuracy.
I love the air, when growing colder It, clear and high, The purer sky Broadens with sense of freedom bolder.
That thought can pierce its native sky Beyond the artist’s starry guess: But all that it may dare express, Is through the worship of a sigh.
Antoinette looked out of the window, saw the folly of her conduct, and proposed a pink bonnet to relieve the unbecoming sky and the gray costume.
The blue of the sky changed to brazen, the silver and gold of moonlight and sunlight became lurid, the springs began to dry up.
The sky in front of her was like the mouth of a furnace from which a fiery blast is rushing, and the tree-trunks in the forest opposite showed a faint glimmer of light beyond them.
The idea of putting me into pearl-color under a sky like that!
Search the star-lighted sky for Cancer, and you will find in it the once humble Asellus of Silenus.
The morning sky was of a pure blue, with thin flecks of white cloud, and everything was thickly laden with dew.
The sky is of a uniform gray, and so thick that it seems to contain a deluge of snow.
Who has not experienced this joy that has once seen the beautiful sky of Italy, and left it, and then beheld it again?
The gray mass was rent and scattered east and west with ominous speed, a dim uncertain light from the rift in the sky fell full upon the boat, and the travelers beheld each other's faces.
Illustration] Just beyond the farm lay the cornfields which belonged to us; they were of no great extent, but to me they seemed infinite.
He then remarked that the door had lost one of its hinges, and hung so much awry that he could creep through the crevice into the room, which he did.
I have not touched the Immortal Fountain," said she, turning in surprise to the queen.
When Marion returned, Rose clasped her to her bosom, and kissed her fervently.
Lynacre wrote for the child Princess a Rudiments of Grammar.
She gives the date of her entrance upon her Anglo-Saxon studies as 1698, when she was fifteen.
And observe how that dusky hill-side, and those tall slender mournful-looking pines, with that sorrowful sky between, lead the eye and point the heart upward towards that heaven.
He could see just the bare hilltop beneath him, a glimmer below, and the sky and the stars over his head.
You see there is a bit of blue sky up there, and a bit of sunshiny scarlet in the window.
I would far rather, however, if I were only following my taste, take the barest bit of the moor above, with a streak of the coldsky over it.
It looks as if there were something upon its mind that made it sullenly thoughtful; but the stars are coming out one after another overhead, and the sky will be all awake soon.
We walked through the village and down the valley beyond, sloping steeply between hills towards the sea, the opening closed at the end by the blue of the ocean below and the more ethereal blue of the sky above.
It set me thinking--as I had often been set thinking before, always with fresh discovery and a new colour on the dawning sky of hope.
The sky eastward and overhead was tolerably clear when I set out from home; but when I left the cottage to return, I could see that some change was at hand.
The sky was covered with one cloud, but the waves tossing themselves against the rocks, flashed whiteness out of the general gloom.
The depth of the sky overhead, which you could not see for the arrangement of the picture, was mirrored lovelily in a piece of water that lay in the centre of the valley.
Bentham's invitation for Christmas, they were glad to leave the dull dark streets behind them, and to get a glimpse of blue sky and green fields again.
There was nothing in the sky that I could see, but a long trail of grey cloud, with here and there an edge of light upon it, and he only gave a bit laugh when I looked back at him again wondering.
The air was close, and the sky was hidden by a thick haze, which told of the coming of a storm.
The sky was now for the most part overcast, but through the residual blue spaces the sun at intervals poured light over the rounded bosses of the mountain.
The marvellous blueness of the sky in the earlier part of the day indicated that the air was charged, almost to saturation, with transparent aqueous vapour.
The dawn was dull, but the sky cleared as the day advanced, and finally a dome of cloudless blue stretched overhead.
All was calm--but there was a wildness in the skylike that of anger, which boded evil passions on the part of the atmosphere.
Let a red wafer be attached to a piece of red glass, and from a moderately illuminated position let the sky be regarded through the glass; the wafer will appear of a vivid green.
And now the sky began to brighten towards dawn, with that deep and calm beauty which suggests the thought of adoration to the human mind.
Higher up thesky was violet, and this changed by insensible degrees into the darkling blue of the zenith, which had to thank the light of moon and stars alone for its existence.
The eastern skycontinued to brighten, and by its illumination the Grand Plateau and its bounding heights were lovely beyond conception.
The entrance to the vault was formed by an arch of ice which had detached itself from the general mass of the glacier behind: between them was a space through which we could look to the sky above.
We looked to the sky at intervals, and once a meteor slid across it, leaving a train of sparks behind.
So done, takes the callumet of the feast, and brings it, So a maiden brings us a coale of fire to kindle it.
French Jesuits and fur-traders pushed deeper and deeper into the wilderness of the northern lakes.
Further he told me that the mountaine I saw was of nothing else.
I remitted myselfe to fortune and adventure of time, as a thing ordained by God for his greatest glorie, as I hope it will prove.
The sky had become overcast, and this was what made it seem colder.
The sky was still dull and heavy, and they were afraid it might snow again at any moment.
I think we had better get off the Marshes," said Snap, after a look at the sky and the whirling snow.
Never had the western sky looked so yellow through the black columns of the pine trunks.
It was Decoration Day, and it was so beautiful I went out with another girl to the Park, and we sat on the grass and looked at the sky and wished we lived in the country.
Jethro walked through the hooded bridge, and up the eastern bank until he could see the forest like a black band between the orange sky and the orange river, and there he sat down upon a fallen log on the edge of the bank.
She would not look ahead, yet there was the mirage in the sky when she allowed herself to dream.
The clouds were flying before the wind, and a patch of blue sky shone above the Potomac.
The afternoon wore on, they returned to the garden for tea, and a peaceful stillness continued to reign about them, the very sky smiling placidly at her fears.
Sunset found them seated on the rock, with the waters of the river turned to wine at the miracle in the sky their miracle.
As we rattled over Westminster Bridge, the music of the Vauxhall band came "throbbing through the still night," and the sky was bright with the reflection of the lights.
Sometimes the road dipped into a canyon of poplars, and the skybetween their crests was a tiny strip of mottled blue and white.
Jethro took no thought of these or of time, and sat gazing at the stars in the depths of the sky above the capital dome until a shadow emerged from the black mass of the trees opposite and crossed the street.
Against the flushed sky above the city were silhouetted the high chimneys of the power plant.
The sky was black as a hat, and the wind swept by in gusts that threatened to extinguish the street lamps which, at rare intervals, twinkled along the lonely way.
When he reached it the whole sky about was illuminated by a red and angry light.
Firelight and moonlight illuminating the country around with confused and violent lustre, and banked against the stars and the sky they could see a glowing track of smoke.
There had been a thunder-storm in the afternoon, and the sky was still covered with black clouds.
Only in dreams shall I behold your old battlements and towers, the sea in all its blueness breaking at your feet, the sun setting in a sky of golden glory and gilding your gray stones with its dying rays.
The sunsets at Duino are magnificent--the whole western sky is one flaming blaze of colour, of every tint, from the deepest crimson to the faintest daffodil.
The air was heavy with sweet scents, the sun was setting in a crimson sky and flooding the green vineyards with golden rays, whilst the dark shadows grew longer and longer, and the blue mists veiled the distant hills.
I never saw more vivid lightning--the whole sky was lighted up by it, and it was almost incessant.
