Next to light, perhaps the chief characteristic of the country and its climate is variety.

News arrived from the Strand that the weather had turned to rain, and all the intellect of the Grand Babylon was centred upon the British climate, exactly as if the British climate had been the latest discovery of science.

The climate, even during the summer season, is severe, scarcely a night passing over without the streams being frozen over, the sky being in general cloudless at all periods of the year except during the rainy season (December to March).

Even in southeastern Alaska, where the most extensive glaciers on the continent are, the more evanescent of the traces of their former greater extension, though comparatively recent, are more obscure than those of the ancient California glaciers whore the climate is drier and the rocks more resisting.

The climate of England has been shamefully maligned; its sulkinesses and asperities are not nearly so offensive as Englishmen tell us (their climate being the only attribute of their country which they never overvalue); and the really good summer weather is the very kindest and sweetest that the world knows.

On leaving New York, the northern banks of the river are dotted in every direction with neat little villas, the great want being turf, to which the American climate is an inveterate foe.

The southern climate is softer, hence the wine; and the loose, light, fruitful soil compensates for the high, bare mountains.

He started forth upon a concert tour, but the chill climates of England and Scotland were not refuges from his haunting disease.

Climate is such a fact, or the discovery of America, or the invention of printing, or the rates of wages and prices.

The climate is humid; two-thirds of the soil is under pasture; coal, iron, lead, and slate are found.

The climate is a potent factor in determining the vigor and characteristics of a race.

The climate, so far as crops are concerned, is perhaps a counterpart of New England.

These feats are measures or traits of civility; and temperate climate is an important influence, though not quite indispensable, for there have been learning, philosophy, and art in Iceland, and in the tropics.

She and Janie, the black girl she had brought with her, went to the southern part of England, where the climate was milder.

Perhaps the invigorating climate of the mountain camp was compensation for maternal deficiencies.

The question may arise right here among some of the more skeptical, how it is that any of the population are afflicted with this disease, if the climate is such an enemy to it?

The climate here in winter is a dry cold, which is much more salubrious and agreeable to me than the changeable, humid climate of Great Britain, where, though the cold is not so great, it is much more severely felt.