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Professor Poynting believes that its temperature is below the freezing-point of water all over the globe; many others, if not the majority of observers, hold that the white cap we see at its poles is a mass of ice and snow, or at least a thick coat of hoar-frost, and that it melts at the edges as the springtime of Mars comes round. In regard to its famous canals we are no nearer agreement.
"It would be difficult to set about it otherwise than coolly with the thermometer thirty-five below zero," remarked Fred, beating his hands together, and stamping his feet, while the breath issued from his mouth like dense clouds of steam, and fringed the edges of his hood and the breast of his jumper with hoar-frost.
But the Bithynian soon regretted this proposal, for it fell like a hoar-frost upon the blind man's happy mood. He curtly declined. He would not play host where he was himself a guest, and pride forbade him to use the property of others as though it were his own. He could not regain his suddenly awakened pleasure in existence before Gras warned him it was time to go to rest.
On the right was the dark prison with its red roof and sentry-boxes at the corners; on the left was the big town copse, now covered with hoar-frost. It was still; only an old man, wearing a woman's short jacket and a huge cap, was walking ahead, coughing and shouting to a cow which he was driving to the town. "Good-day, grandfather," said Kirila, overtaking him. "Good-day. . . ."
The hoar-frost, which vanishes with the sunrise, stood with them for ephemeral fame. Rank without power was "a fountain without water." The rushing stream reminded the Maori singer, as it did the Mantuan, of the remorseless current of life and human fate. "But who can check life's stream? Or turn its waters back? 'Tis past," cried a father mourning for his dead son.
The windows of his study were lit up till late at night, and the early morning generally found the monarch again at his writing-desk. After a night half spent at work, to-day the yearning for a breath of fresh air had taken the Emperor at early dawn into the silent pine-woods. A light hoar-frost had fallen during the night, covering the ground with fine white crystals.
Paulina, that gentle hoar-frost of yours, surrounding so much pure, fine flame, is a priceless privilege of nature." "You see I feel Graham's disposition," said she. "I feel that no delicacy can be too exquisite for his treatment." "It is perfectly proved that you comprehend him, and then whatever Dr.
At that period of life when the judgment is matured, the soothing companionship of an amiable female cannot but cheer the mind, and prevent that morose hoar-frost into which solitude is chilled and made rigid by increasing years. In short, Mr.
It was very dark, but the dim light from the lantern sparkled upon a fine hoar-frost, which lay like silver on the causeway and glittered on every straw scattered about the yard. Not a sound was to be heard, except a very soft, low moan from the sea, and that they listened for as they stood still on the doorstep.
Just then, as though to confirm the awful words of the stranger, a thing swung itself down from one of the nearest trees, covered with hoar-frost, no one could say if it were a snake or a lizard, it curled and twisted itself, and appeared about to slide down upon the knight or his companion. Sintram levelled his spear, and pierced the creature through.
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