They will tell that lightning sometimes sets trees on fire, that thunderstorms generally come after hot dry weather, and that if lightning struck a tree with dry stuff about the fire would spread, and the long-ago people would run away.

But in wet or very cold weather he stays in his nest, and while curled up there his comforter is long enough to come forward around his nose.

But during the winter, when the stream-banks are embossed in snow, and the streams themselves are chilled nearly to the freezing-point, so that the snow falling into them in stormy weather is not wholly dissolved, but forms a thin, blue sludge, thus rendering the current opaquethen he seeks the deeper portions of the main rivers, where he may dive to clear water beneath the sludge.

The execution of the offensive with stronger forces is desirable, but is not practicable, as, in consequence of the beginning of the rainy weather in the middle of November, the British offensive may be expected at the latest during the latter half of October; ours therefore should take place during the first part of that month.

In this way I learned something of the handling of a ship, and especially how to sail a sloop alone in rough weather, I have ventured, myself the only crew, far down the river to the beginning of the sealocks, and more than once escaped drowning by a miracle.

The gravestone is so overgrown with grass and weeds, so covered with unsightly lichens, and crumbly with time and foul weather, that it is questionable whether anybody will ever be at the trouble of deciphering it again.

Calm weather in June "sets corn in tune;" and a Suffolk adage says: "Cut your thistles before St. John, You will have two instead of one.

She ran down stairs singing, "Thank God for pleasant weather!

And because the Indian Cañon groves, from their peculiar exposure, are the warmest, the birds congregate there, more especially in severe weather.

But down in the forest region the greater portion comes gently to the ground, light and feathery, some of the flakes in mild weather being nearly an inch in diameter, and it is evenly distributed and kept from drifting to any great extent by the shelter afforded by the large trees.

Farther on, the river got wide and in thick weather one saw no lights: Davies must keep mid-channel and trust his reckoning while he rushed her along.

To us coming fresh from the torrid plains it was bitter weather, and I feared for Elspeth, who was thinly clad for the hill-tops.

The spring training trip did not bring to Brooklyn all that had been expected owing to the inclement weather.

The cloudy weather had gone, and the glen where we lay was filled with sun and bright colours.

In the Hebrides and the Orkneys snipes are plentiful, and they are fattest in frosty weather.

Boxing Day was brighter, and there were hopes of a period of better weather.

In cool weather it keeps him warm.

But green leaves, and blossoms, and sunny warm weather, And singing, and lovingall come back together, But the lark is so brimful of gladness and love, The green fields below him, the blue sky above, That he sings, and he sings; and forever sings he "I love my Love, and my Love loves me!" PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS.

It paid better than pork, he told Palmer,a commission, especially in damp weather.

After making observations of the bar, which appeared to be practicable for whaleboats in moderate weather if the wind be south of west, we returned along the south shore of the estuary, which is about one and a half mile long and half a mile wide; it does not appear to be of any great depth.

Winds blew and fell, the sea rose and subsided, the Sybarite trudged on into dull weather.

You can see every day that horses' hoofs give out sparks when they strike stone, and to see a coachman with a rolled up collar in windy weather is not an unusual sight either.

In the four weeks ending December 8, 1917, in spite of the much shorter days and the far less favourable flying weather experienced, the mileage covered was again 91,000 miles; 17 submarines were sighted, of which 11 were attacked during this period.

The damp gloomy weather brought on some kind of rheumatic attack, which obliged the old servant to keep her bed.

Yes, it's lovely weather we're having.