This plan was successful, except that occasionally the wire was broken by an extraordinary burden of sleet in the winter season.

But, though the wind up here blew unmistakably when it did blow, and the rain hit hard whenever it fell, the various weathers of the winter season were not quite so formidable on the coomb as they were imagined to be by dwellers on low ground.

I keep four during the summer, autumn, and winter season,' she added with conscious pride, fearing that her former statement might prejudice the reputation of Russell House.

There, in the winter season, the current at its mouth is opposed by the north winds, so that the river is spread all over the land of Egypt;[l8] and by the rich earth which it deposits, it fertilizes the whole country.

When the Russians have a mind to travel, especially if the distance is very great, they prefer the winter season, when the whole country is covered over with frozen snow, and all the rivers are passable on the ice.

The Roman army, now close on 40,000 strong, and though not a match for its antagonist in cavalry, at least equal in infantry, had simply to remain in its existing position, in order to compel the enemy either to attempt in the winter season the passage of the river and an attack upon the camp, or to suspend his advance and to test the fickle temper of the Gauls by the burden of winter quarters.

I turned down a flattering offer to follow Harry to a hunting lodge in New Hampshire and from there to Florida for the winter season.

The tellers of legends and oral tales among them are, therefore, permitted to exercise their fancies and functions to amuse their listeners during the winter season, for the spirits are then in a state of inactivity, and cannot hear.

While George was absent, I went with him to New-Orleans, in the winter season, on account of his failing health.

When in the winter season I see skates prominently exposed for sale in our shop windows I am reminded of another of the odd or rather side industries of Birmingham.

For that reason they make no campaigns in any direction during the winter season.

At the close of the Carnival season, singers who have been abroad for the winter season appear in the Gallery.

You will see a great many of them, in the winter season, coming down from every part of the country, toward the large towns on the rivers, filled with produce.

Numerous islands are interspersed through this river; and from the mouth of the Ohio, tall cotton-wood trees and cane-brakes grow in immense quantities along the banks; the latter, being evergreens, have a pleasing effect in the winter season.

These journeys that the birds make when they leave their nesting haunts for the winter season, and return again in spring, are called migrations.

"Far up in one of the numerous valleys of the Yakkoollung country," he commenced, "resided an ancient couple, whose occupation throughout the summer day consisted in storing food for the winter season, and who, when their work was finished, continued mournfully to dwell on the all-absorbing subject of the forcible abduction of their daughter by one of the Uzbeg chiefs.

There are points in others of the Southern States, such as Aikin, where two years out of three, perhaps, consumptives, in certain stages, may go with benefit; yet there is no Atlantic or Gulf State with a climate and soil adapted to aid in the cure of bronchial and catarrh troubles and nervous prostration at all comparable to Florida in the winter season.

I should certainly recommend anyone going from England to California in the winter season, to go by the Southern route.

December and January are the least pleasant, because it is the rainy and winter season.

In the winter season (June, July, and August) hard gales of wind have been experienced from the North-West, even as high as Shark's Bay; and at this season the coast ought not to be approached.

The wool on Sheep keeps them warm in the Winter season.

not only gave the author his usual profits of his third days, &c. but procured him a benefit-night in the winter season, which turned out greatly to his advantage; so that he had four benefit-nights in all for that piece; by the profits whereof, and his copy-money, he gained several hundred pounds.

In the winter season, some men working in a garden threw up some roots which were supposed to be Skirrets, and those were cooked for dinner.

He decided to return, also because of the tumultuous sea, for the coast of Juana towards the north is very broken, and at that winter season, the north winds were dangerous to his ships.

And thus, acknowledging the novelist's artistic necessity, ROBERT died.[THE END.] * * * * * WINTER SEASON AT COVENT GARDEN.Opening of Italian Opera last Saturday, with Aida.