Do we say autumn or fall

autumn 3881 occurrences

Vol.2: Supercargo. Vol.3: Autumn.

(In Esquire, autumn 1933) © 17Oct33; B206856.

(In Direction, autumn 1934)

(In New Mexico quarterly, autumn 1950)

R59596, 14Mar50, Mme veuve Pierre Decourcelle, née Louise Edmée About (W) AUTUMN CHANTS, by Edna St. Vincent Millay. (In the Yale review, Oct. 1922) © 15Sep22, B547480. R58450, 7Feb50, Edna St. Vincent Millay (A) AUTUMN, MONTAUK POINT

R59596, 14Mar50, Mme veuve Pierre Decourcelle, née Louise Edmée About (W) AUTUMN CHANTS, by Edna St. Vincent Millay. (In the Yale review, Oct. 1922) © 15Sep22, B547480. R58450, 7Feb50, Edna St. Vincent Millay (A) AUTUMN, MONTAUK POINT

(In Kenyon review, autumn 1948) © 2Oct48; B158226.

(In The American scholar, autumn 1948)

(In Sewanee review, autumn 1948)

(In The Hudson review, autumn 1948)

Autumn leaf on a pool.

(In Common ground, autumn 1948)

(In Common ground, autumn 1948)

(In Wake, Autumn 1949)

(In Virginia quarterly review, autumn 1949)

(In Sewanee review, autumn 1949)

By Mark Schorer (In Kenyon review, autumn 1949)

(In The American scholar, autumn 1949)

Hold autumn in your hand.

We were fortunate, while visiting last autumn this special wet district of Iowa, to experience one of these triangular storms.

This was not a merely local storm, but was the only great easterly one covering any extent of territory and time, answering to the equinoctial, which visited the United States during last autumn.

Six weeks of that charming autumn, ending in the Indian summer with its peculiarly hazy atmosphere, I lingered in Peterboro.

By and bye we reached the last slopes up to the mesa, green, with yellow crags and cliffs, and here and there blazing maples to remind me again that autumn was at hand.

Thickets and swales of oaks and aspens were gorgeous in their autumn hues.

During the autumn he often met King at her father's, and the young men occasionally made up small parties with Julia and Nell or some other young ladies for rides and excursions.

fall 17785 occurrences

I had not let fall the hand I held, when a sad, calm voice addressed me by name.

The family all wore home made clothing, cotton shirts, heavy shoes, very heavy underwear; and if they wore out their winter shoes before the spring weather they had to do without until the fall.

The ceiling was of joists, and my mother used to hang the seed that we gathered in the fall, to dry from these joists.

He could draw a picture of a chicken on a paper and shoot it, and a chicken would fall dead in the yard, yes sir.

An de hill ter fall top o' yer.

We had a apple house we used to fill every fall with the best apples.

They was a bunch of us boys out rabbit huntin' one day one fall.

"Wen I stayed wid Mrs. Porter her chaps would break out mighty bad wid sores in de fall of de year and I'se told Mrs. Porter I'se could core dat so I'se got me some elder berries en made pies out of hit en made her chaps eat hit on dey war soon cored.

I will fall off.

[Illustration: Letter N.] Nothing could be more easy and agreeable than my condition when I was first summoned to set out on the road to learning, and it was not without letting fall a few ominous tears that I took the first step.

The giant merely awoke, rubbed his cheek, and said, "Did a leaf fall?"

When pride was bringing Napoleon towards his fall, he happened to say, "France has more need of me than I have of France."

Into the mad mill stream The mountain roses fall; And fern and adder's-tongue Grow on the old mill wall.

In cool blood, you do not even trust your eyes; but fall in love, and you will believe in ghosts.

"Not much love, then, will fall to the share of each!" said Saphir Ali.

You know that it is to you alone that I write down the pictures which fall on the magic-glass of my heart, assured that you will guess, not with cold criticism, but with the heart, what I would describe.

Oh that all her sufferings could fall on my head!

Oh, why do not the ashes of the ruined sun fall on my headwhy will not the earth bury me in its ruins!" He fell on my breast, choking with grief, in a tearless agony, unable to pronounce a word.

Seltanetta, whose existence death was already overpowering, seemed as if awakening from the deep forgetfulness of fever; her cheeks flushed with a transient colour, like that on the leaves of autumn before they fall: in her clouded eye beamed the last spark of the soul.

But it is not by this dignity, but by my heart, that I feel I am worthy of you; and if there be shame in being happy despite of the malice of mankind and the caprice of fate, that shame will fall on my head and not on yours.

I hoped you would fall back into your former course; I was painfully mistaken.

"My ashes fall on the head of this guide!

I mount with twenty thousand Avarétzes and Akoushétzes: and we fall from the mountains like a cloud of snow upon Tarki.

" "At all events," said Griffith, "give me leave to say that I admire Miss Sherwood, and that I shall think it a crying shame if so beautiful and intelligent a girl is suffered to fall into the clutches of this stupid baronet who is laying siege to herthis pompous, empty-headed Sir Frederic Beaumantle.

many a tête-à-tête, which otherwise would not fall to his share.

Do we say   autumn   or  fall