A few summers ago, on an arctic expedition, I climbed Cape Lisbourne, Alaska, in company with another person.
A fair man-boy of fifteen summers tossed His wasted limbs upon a cheerless couch.
It is still known as their home, though Vicksburg now claims the daughter of the house, and only in the summers are the doors opened again for that lavish hospitality for which the old place was noted.
We lived threesummers at Wiishto, and spent each winter on the Sciota.
It is notorious that our summers are not hot enough for the Newtown Pippin (10/90.
France, and their summersoften too short for summer-wheat; and they thought that their country was useless for corn crops until they procured summer-wheat from the northern parts of Europe, which succeeded well.
Yet was he in nowise evil-looking; he seemed some thirty summers old.
For man's grief was growing beside of the mirth Of the springs and the summers that wasted their wealth; And the birds, the new-comers, made merry by stealth.
But to men little-hearted what winter is worse Than thy summers departed that bore them the curse?
The Judge had always felt that he should send his family away during July and August; they often went in June when the summers were early.
She now lived with her uncle in New York City and her summers were spent in Canada.
For the mother's sake, their winters had been spent in Florida, their summers on Long Island.
Years ago attempts at landscape gardening had been indulged in, while the master of the place fancied to pass his summers there, but years of recent neglect had all but obliterated the marks of culture.
The natives counted their gains with bated breath and dreamed visions of future summers that made them dizzy.
So Hope exultant spreads her aëry sail, And from the present gloom the soul conveys To distantsummers and far happier days.
But when the venue was changed from the tap-room of the George Inn to the Captain's own house, the troubles of Jim Summers and his wife began.
Mr. and Mrs. Summers kept their mouths as close as, under the circumstances, could reasonably have been expected of them.
He at once set out for Duchess street, Jim Summers going round by the house of his sister-in-law on Palace street to arouse his wife, who slept there.
Everything was as it had been left the night before, and no clue could be found to the mysterious circumstances so solemnly attested to by Jim Summers and his spouse.
Mrs. Summers produced the key and handed it to her husband.
Mrs. Summers had an easy time of it, as no intending tenants presented themselves, and her only visitor was her married sister, who occasionally dropped in for an hour's chat.
Summers found employment as porter and assistant in Hammell's grocery store, but his wife was always on hand to show the premises to anyone who might wish to see them.
Captain Bywater, and supplemented the biography by a narration of the singular experiences of Jim Summers and his wife.
I little dreamed what would happen Some twenty summers hence, When the nester came with his wife, his kids, His dogs, and his barbed-wire fence.
I remember back in the seventies, Full many summers past, There was grass and water plenty, But it was too good to last.
They guard the wee nest it was yours to inherit Some nineteen or twenty short summers ago.
Why, surely, my Jenny, Such cosy dimensions go clearly to show You were an exceedingly small pickaninny Some nineteen or twenty short summers ago.
The only previous addition to the family had been a daughter, and she was then ten summers old.
The saeter is a place in the mountains where the Norwegian peasants spend their summers pasturing their cattle.
I say other things being equal, because large bodies of water modify climates by equalizing the seasons--making the summers cooler and the winters warmer than the mean of the parallel.
They do not suffer from the effects of hot summers but will not withstand drouth and are not well adapted to semi-arid conditions.
It is earlier, comparatively, in the South than in the North; that is, in cool summers it matures slowly.
But Lieutenant Summers with his landing party, drawn to the clearing by the sounds of combat, had made a hurried march up from the beach, and opened fire.
Further general discussion was abandoned, as Lieutenant Summersfelt his services were needed on deck.
Presently, the boys saw the little boat dancing over the waves, then Lieutenant Summers climbed to the deck of the schooner, and he and the old skipper disappeared together down the companionway.
Lieutenant Summers directed it be played full upon the dark blot ahead, and instantly the latter stood out fully illumined.
Jackson," Lieutenant Summers said to his young petty officer, "I want you to take command here with your four men.
As Lieutenant Summers had explained to the boys, even in pitched battle a good deal of powder and shot was spent often without anybody being injured.
They were stealing along as close to the shore as Lieutenant Summers dared venture with his craft.
Lieutenant Summers earlier had assigned him to look after the injured.
Lieutenant Summers led the way below to his cabin, and, once all five were gathered inside, he lost no time in coming to the point.
How many happy recollections I have of hot summer days in the unbroken tranquillity of these summers at Lime.
Of all the unhappy summersof my boyhood, that of 1848 was the most miserable.
At daybreak I joined Judge Presley, of Summerville, who has spent nine summers here and knows the surroundings perfectly.
Governor Hampton formerly spent the summers here, engaged, among other pastimes, in fishing for trout along the head streams of the Chatooga, which have been stocked with this fish by the Hampton family.
A blushing damsel of forty summersor so entered the town-clerk's office at Wheeling, West Virginia, and asked for a license.
Indeed, the things that interested Summers Minor, and the things that did not interest him, had mystified and amused his uncle for several hours.
The schoolboy was officially known as Summers Minor, and in a more social manner as Stinks, the only public tribute to his career as an amateur photographer and electrician.
It could hardly be denied, however, that the controversies left Summers Minor comparatively cold.
For Summers Minor had indeed nothing to do with it; and it is part of his higher significance that he has really nothing to do with the story, or with any such stories.
This had grown upon her as the habits of lonely life gave her more and more of that fastidious dislike to males in general, as such, which is not rare in maidens who have seen the roses of more summers than politeness cares to mention.
He was teaching school on one of the islands near Mount Desert in the Summers and going to college the rest of the time.
Mr. Montagu Summers had a conscientious objection to the Income Tax, and a positive loathing of the Super-Tax, and the trouble lay in the fact that he had amassed a considerable fortune in the City of London.
Illustration: "Mr. Montagu Summers had a conscientious objection to the Income Tax, and a positive loathing of the Super-Tax.
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