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Updated: June 23, 2025
'Are you weather-wise? able to tell when the clouds will hold off or pelt, he said, to be very civil to a neighbour. She collected her understanding, apparently; treating a conversational run of the tongue as a question to be pondered; and the horses paid for it. Ordinarily he was gentle with his beasts. He lashed at her in his heart for perverting the humanest of men. 'Father was, she replied.
Don't spare the firing there's plenty of it, so isn't it grand to see the thick smoke towering upwards straight and solid like a pillar!" "Seldom that one experiences a calm so perfect," said I, glancing upward at the slowly-rising smoke. "Don't you think it is the proverbial calm before the storm?" "Don't know, Max. I'm not weather-wise.
This was pleasant and promised a fair run home, but Priscilla eyed the sky suspiciously. She was weather-wise. "It'll die clean away," she said, "towards evening. It always does on this kind of day when it has worked round with the sun. Curious things winds are, Cousin Frank, aren't they? Rather like ices in some ways, I always think."
The credit of discovering and first asserting that it was the coldest day of the season is due to myself, no slight distinction in the country, where the weather is always a more prominent topic than in the city, and the weather-wise are accordingly esteemed. Every one hastened to corroborate this verdict with some piece of evidence.
Often in midwinter will come, now and then, a long fall of soft snow piling three or four feet above the ice crust, and work a real hardship for the dwellers of these streets. When such a storm portends the weather-wise black-tail will go down across the valley and up to the pastures of Waban where no more snow falls than suffices to nourish the sparsely growing pines.
Julaper had grown weather-wise, living for so long among this noble and solitary scenery, where people must observe Nature or else nothing where signs of coming storm or change are almost local, and record themselves on particular cliffs and mountain-peaks, or in the mists, or in mirrored tints of the familiar lake, and are easily learned or remembered. At all events, her presage proved too true.
The air was so thick that I found it impossible to distinguish the volcano, though I was actually standing at its foot; and, as the weather-wise of the neighborhood could hold out no promise of a favorable change at that time of the year, I put off my intended ascent till a better opportunity, and resolved to return.
"I hope so, too," she returned heartily. "Still, it's jolly for you finding an old friend like Mr. Coventry living next door, so to speak, isn't it?" For a moment Mrs. Hilyard hesitated. Then: "Very jolly," she replied, with a brief, enigmatic smile. August had come in on a wave of such breathless heat that each day the weather-wise foretold a thunderstorm.
Nevertheless, this does not prevent us from calling these Saharan people barbarians. 30th. Very mild weather this morning, but overcast as if rain would soon fall. I have not been long enough in The Desert to read the weather signs, or become weather-wise. Keep the door shut, to prevent an influx of visitors. Now and then a few people get in.
She had hitherto kept in the cabin, but now she expressed a wish to come on deck. The hanging clouds were narrowing the horizon to a span, and gloomily mingling with the rising surges. The old and grave-looking seamen shook their weather-wise heads as if foretelling a storm. As Clotelle came on deck, she strained her eyes in vain to catch a farewell view of her native land.
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