So the summer wore on till concerts were over, and it was supposed to be impossible to stay in London.
V The summer passed, and always there was that little patch of silence in her heart, and in his.
The United States at the moment of the preparation of this book is virtually without any balloons of this type--the first one of any pretensions having been tested in the summer of 1917.
It is also interesting to note what happened when Lawrence Sperry went out to sea one day lastsummer in his hydroplane and failed to return.
Were his thoughts taking him back to the memorable summer evening at the Hampstead villa?
Inside the summer-house the butterfly-brightness of the women in their summer dresses shone radiant out of the gloom shed round it by the dreary modern clothing of the men.
As things were, the question had only taken its rise in a chance conversation with Mr. Delamayn in the summer of that year.
At the same moment the quiet of the summer evening was once more disturbed.
It's no great hardship to pass a few hours in this delicioussummer air.
The muscles of his brawny arms showed through the sleeves of his light summer coat.
This was in the summer of eighteen hundred and thirty-one.
In the summerof 'sixty-six a Chief Judgeship fell vacant.
The tender green of the early summer deepened and ripened into the golden tinge of autumn as over the Black Creek Valley the mantle of harvest was spread.
The banks, which are of a spongy black loam, grow a heavy crop of coarse meadow grass, interspersed in the late summer with the umbrella- like white clusters of water hemlock.
They bought a cow from one of the neighbors, but before the summer was over brought her back indignantly, declaring that she would give no milk.
Mrs. Brydon spent many happy hours that summer at the Stopping-House, and soon Mrs. Corbett knew all the events of her past life; the sympathetic understanding of the Irish woman made it easy for her to tell many things.
The summer passed pleasantly for George Shaw and his cheery old housekeeper.
It was pleasing in that place, where perhaps was never yet a flower cultivated by man for his own pleasure, to see these blossoms grow more gladly than elsewhere, making a summer garden near the mountain dwellings.
We attribute this partly to the bareness of the trees, but chiefly to the absence of the singing of birds, the hum of insects, that noiseless noise which lives in the summer air.
I sate a while upon my last summer seat, the mossy stone.
A soft sky was among the hills, and a summer sunshine above, and blending with this sky, for it was more like sky than clouds; the turf looked warm and soft.
The young lasses seen on the hill-tops, in the villages and roads, in their summer holiday clothes--pink petticoats and blue.
These plants now in perpetual motion from the current of the air; in summer only moved by the drippings of the rocks.
I could not help observing, as we went along, how much more varied the prospects of Wensley Dale are in the summer time than I could have thought possible in the winter.
A winter prospect shows every cottage, every farm, and the forms of distant trees, such as in summer have no distinguishing mark.
This field, the whole summer through, is covered with women of all ages, children, and young girls spreading out their linen, and watching it while it bleaches.
We children were taken to Colchester everysummer by my mother, and we generally spent half our holiday at Walton-on-the-Naze, then a fishing village with only four or five houses in it besides a few cottages.
It was when I was about ten years old--surely it must have been very early on some cloudlesssummer morning--that Nurse Jane came to us.
Forty, thirty, aye, twenty years ago both taverns were the almost daily resorts, during the summer and autumn, of the highest in the land.
Overlooking the river, stairs led to shanties to which wherries were moored, whilst a verandah, running the entire length of the house in which I once had rooms, enabled shade and muddy breezes to be indulged in during the hot summer evenings.
It is a summer morning, and the eastern mountains fling their shadows long and huge across the lonesome valleys.
So thesummer bloomed and budded and bore fruit, and faded into autumn, and autumn froze into winter.
The child belonged to a neighbor who often lodged artists for weeks at a time, and he contrived to spend a whole summer there.
Well, here is a letter from a woman I don't remember ever seeing, though she says she once spent a summer in a boarding-house with me and mine.
A charming story of a summer spent in the country, by a family of city children.
Both awaited the return of summer to change into winged insects, burst their cerements, and proceed as their parents did.
We had a colony of these caterpillars in the summer of 1825, brought from Epping Forest, and saw several of them work their cocoons, and we could not but admire the dexterity with which they avoided filling up the little pin-holes.
This insect is to be found in most warm and sandy situations, and may be looked for at the end of summer and beginning of autumn.
The ground, thoroughly warmed by the summer sun, soon hastened the young through their changes, and in an incredibly short time the insects of the second brood made their appearance.
The summerfollowing they were still more abundant on the hawthorn hedges, particularly near the Thames, by Battersea and Richmond.
The neatest, though the smallest spider's nest which we have seen, was constructed in the chink of a garden post, which we had cut out in the previous summer in getting at the cells of a carpenter-bee.
These galls were very abundant during the summer of 1830.
Since then we have only seen them sparingly; and last summer we could only find the single nest upon which we tried the preceding experiment.
In clear, fine weather, the air is invariably positive; and it is precisely in such weather that the aeronautic spider makes its ascent most easily and rapidly, whether it be in summer or in winter.
We observed above a dozen of them during this summer (1829) in the trunk of a poplar, one side of which had been stripped of its bark.
I also found that the male as well as the female constructs a similar subaqueous cell, and during summer no less than in winter.
Once, after painting a summer evening, he thought that the picture needed a dark spot in front by way of contrast; so he cut out a dog from black paper and stuck it on.
It was now the hottest time of the year, and the summer sun had dried up all the surrounding country excepting the permanent creeks.
During summer the life at the diggings was tolerable, but in the winter the cold was very severe, and Hargraves' party suffered intensely.
Customers became scarce, wearing out their patience and their wigs together; the shop became dirty, and winter saw the flies of summer scattered on his show-board.
Arguments that would have knocked down any reasonable elephant have touched them no more than would summer gnats.
Others may hail the joys of Spring, When birds and buds alike are growing; Some the Summer days may sing, When sowing, mowing, on are going.
Very military: bring in drill; drumsticks; breastwork; and pair of ducks for light clothing and summer wear.
As soon as the summer course begins, the Botanical Lectures commence with it, and the polite Company of Apothecaries courteously request the student's acceptance of a ticket of admission to the lectures, at their garden at Chelsea.
Great political convulsions sift peoples as the wind sifts the wheat on the summer threshing-floor, bringing into prominence their best as well as their worst features.
In the summer of 1769 a violent and disgraceful affray took place between Otis and Robinson, the Commissioner of Customs, in a coffee-house, in which Otis received a severe blow on the head.
Her couch is more delicate than swan's-down and whiter than the fleece of the clouds where brood the summer storms.
Illustration: It was the same colorful late summer heaven of a year ago it was true, but to it there had been added a new, more vital meaning.
That's what you youngsters get by going away every summer instead of remaining at home with your betters.
He expected thissummer to be the best in many years.
The rumble of the paddle of a distant steamboat may be heard in melancholy cadence on the summer breezes.
The summer of a year ago Nance Gwyn had been in Europe.
Then she climbed upon the grassy bank and stood for the warm winds of summer to dry her.
On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily: Merrily, merrily, shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
It was the same colorful late summer heaven of a year ago, it was true, but to it there had been added a new, more vital meaning.
You doubtless remember the years at Virginia in which I returned for a few short months each summer and exploited my erudition on the boys who remained at home.
One day last summer I was out rowing, and, getting very hot, tied my boat in the shade of a big tree.
In the spring andsummer he drove them out to pasture, but during the winter they stood all the time in the dirty, dark stable, where the chinks in the wall were so big that the snow swept through almost in drifts.
When the Morris boys are all here in the summerwe have gay times.
The summer after I came to them, Jack and Carl went to an uncle in Vermont, Miss Laura went to another in New Hampshire, and Ned and Willie went to visit a maiden aunt who lived in the White Mountains.
Mr. Maxwell never misses a summer in coming to Riverdale.
You often see sheep holding their noses in that way in the summer time.
Mrs. Drury comes every summer on her way to Newport, and Mr. Montague and Charlie come every other summer.
At last, Mrs. Morris got into the habit of putting a little notice in the Fairport paper, asking people who were going away for the summer to provide for their cats during their absence.
They made some inquiries the next day, and found that he belonged to a New York gentleman who had come to Fairport in the summer in a yacht.
Through thesummer I had often seen carriages at the door, and ladies and gentlemen in light clothes walking over the lawn, and sometimes I smelled nice things they were having to eat.
In the summer they wander about over the forest, and in the autumn they come together in small groups, and select a hundred or two of acres where there is plenty of heavy undergrowth, and to which they usually confine themselves.
Windham is a neighbor of ours, and last summer I kept telling him that his collie was worrying my Shropshires.
She preached many times this summer in and around Newport.
I would waken the frozen ocean With a billowy burst of joy: Stir the ships at their grim ice-moorings The summer passes by.
It has been told elsewhere how in this lastsummer of his life he labored to make more beautiful and more valuable the summer home which had become very dear to him.
Rogers, Colonel Higginson and Mr. Samuel Powell, a number of friends were called together in the early summer of 1874 and she laid before them the plan of the proposed club.
He bought it, added one or two rooms to the old house, planted fruit trees, laid out flower gardens, and in the summer of 1845 moved his little family thither.
In the summer of 1846 he resolved to try the water cure, then considered by many a sovereign remedy for all human ailments, and he and our mother spent some delightful weeks at Brattleboro, Vermont.
She always tried to go at least once in the summer to see the old people at the Town Farm, a pleasant, gray old house, not far from Oak Glen.
She thought these nursery melodies among her best compositions; from time to time, however, other and graver airs came to her, dreamed over the piano on summer evenings, or in twilight walks among the Newport meadows.
This gentleman had come from Naples to Boston, toward the end of the eighteenth century, as a decorative artist, and had made a modest fortune by painting the walls of the fine houses of Summer Street, Temple Place, and Beacon Hill.
Soon after this the "seabirds of Muscovy" departed; then came the flitting to Newport, and a summer of steady work.
I read to them the greater part of my play, "Hippolytus," written the summer before Sammy was born, for Edwin Booth.
All through the records of these summer days runs the patter of children's feet.
But in summerhis thoughts are naturally more philosophical.
Do you suppose that your family would return to London in a condition fit to be looked at, after a summer spent on food such as we give to our horses?
I have written off to secure a residence in the Highlands of Scotland for our summer quarters this season.
In the summerof 1840 Waller was sent to establish this Mission.
It was separated from the east bank by a part of the river, in summer not more than forty feet wide; it was situated near the crest of the falls.
Kuhn, one method for obtaining the fern-seed was, at the summer solstice, to shoot at the sun when it had attained its midday height.
The summer twilight was only creeping over the western sky when I closed her door and went out into the passage: the evening was only half over, and a fit of restlessness induced me to seek the garden.
I laid down my book and fell into a waking dream; my thoughts seemed to take bird-flights into all sorts of strange places; the summer sounds and scents seemed to lull me into infinite content.
In the summer a gardening craze seized her, and just now she is in an idle mood.
The air was delicious, thesummer heat tempered by cool breezes that seemed to come straight from the sea.
I was in the mood to be gay: perhaps the summer sunshine infected me, for who could be dull on such a day?
I saw him glance up eagerly, almost hungrily, but the blinds were partially down, and there was only a white curtain flapping in the summer breeze.
The moon was just rising behind the little avenue, and the soft rush of summer air that met me as I stepped through the open door had the breath of a thousand flowers on it.
The night passed quietly, and I woke, refreshed, to the sound of summer rain pattering on the shrubs.
