| William Gregory Wood-Martin - 1902 - 466 str.
...foretell approaching rain ; if they fly high, they announce continued fine weather. Thus Gay says :— " When swallows fleet soar high, and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear." regularly and pecked at the window pane, and even after his death, the bird still returned each morning... | |
| William Gregory Wood-Martin - 1902 - 490 str.
...foretell approaching rain ; if they fly high, they announce continued fine weather. Thus Gay says : — " When swallows fleet soar high, and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear." A water-wagtail near the house heralds bad news. Whilst a man was lying ill with a virulent fever,... | |
| Edward Bennett Garriott - 1903 - 208 str.
...weather. When swallows in evenings fly high and chirp, fair weather follows; when low, rain follows. When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear. -Gay. Cranes soaring aloft and quietly in the air foreshows fair weather, but if they make much noise,... | |
| Harry Kirke Swann - 1913 - 450 str.
...the contrary a high flight signified fine weather. Thus Gay in his first " Pastoral " writes : — When Swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear. It is related in " Notes and Queries " that a Swallow alighting upon one's shoulder has been regarded... | |
| Wayland D. Hand - 1964 - 726 str.
...follows) ; Garriott, 19 (when swallows in evenings fly high and chirp, fair weather follows) ; also (When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, / He told us that the welkin would be clear) — New England: Johnson, What They Say, 25 (when in the evening you see the swallows flying high,... | |
| Edward B. Garriot - 2001 - 180 str.
...indicates rain When swallows in evenings fly high and chirp, fair weather follows; when low, rain follows When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would he clear. — Gaij. Cranes soaring aloft and quietly in the air foreshows fair weather, but if they... | |
| Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 596 str.
...straight ensue. He first that useful secret did explain, That pricking corns foretell the gathering rain ; When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear. Gay, Pastoral, i. (1714). (Cloddipole is the " Patemon " of Virgil's Ed iii.). Clo'dio (Count), governor.... | |
| Charles Swainson - 1873 - 322 str.
...Wassers hinfahren, so hat man Regen oder Gewitter zu erwarten. So Gay, in his first Pastoral, writes, " When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear." Swans, In Sir John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland, x. 14, parish of Wick, со. Caithness,... | |
| 1899 - 206 str.
...low it presages rain. (Brittany.) 594. When swallows fly high it will be fine weather. (Brittany.) " When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear." — Gay, Shepherd's Week. 611. According as the goose-bone is white or red, the winter will be cold... | |
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