A Handbook of Weather Folk-lore: Being a Collection of Proverbial Sayings in Various Languages Relating to the Weather, with Explanatory and Illustrative Notes |
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... . Wet . Jamais pluie au printemps Ne passe pour mauvais temps . A wet spring - a dry harvest . Fine . The Russians say , " A fine spring is good for everybody . " Thunder . Thunder in spring Cold will bring . Shearing SPRING . I I.
... . Wet . Jamais pluie au printemps Ne passe pour mauvais temps . A wet spring - a dry harvest . Fine . The Russians say , " A fine spring is good for everybody . " Thunder . Thunder in spring Cold will bring . Shearing SPRING . I I.
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... bring . Shearing . You may shear your sheep When the elder blossoms peep . Sowing . Nae hurry wi ' your corns , Nae hurry wi ' your harrows ; Snaw lies ahint the dyke , Mair may come and fill the furrows . - Scotland . Sow wheat in dirt ...
... bring . Shearing . You may shear your sheep When the elder blossoms peep . Sowing . Nae hurry wi ' your corns , Nae hurry wi ' your harrows ; Snaw lies ahint the dyke , Mair may come and fill the furrows . - Scotland . Sow wheat in dirt ...
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... bring the leaf to the grave : i.e. , You must transplant your trees just about the fall of the leaf , neither sooner nor much later : not sooner , because of the motion of the sap ; not later , that they may have time to take root ...
... bring the leaf to the grave : i.e. , You must transplant your trees just about the fall of the leaf , neither sooner nor much later : not sooner , because of the motion of the sap ; not later , that they may have time to take root ...
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... brings ice or breaks it . With which may be compared , Sant Antone de Zener , se ' l g'à giazz el la ol desfà , se nol la trou la ol fa : i.e. , St Antony in January - to distinguish him from S. Antony of Padua , whose festival is in ...
... brings ice or breaks it . With which may be compared , Sant Antone de Zener , se ' l g'à giazz el la ol desfà , se nol la trou la ol fa : i.e. , St Antony in January - to distinguish him from S. Antony of Padua , whose festival is in ...
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... brings forth the adder ; And that craves wary walking . ” March dust and March win ' Bleaches as well as simmer's sin . - Scotland . Thunder . Si foëte de l'hernu en Mars Os pouvons dire hélas ! -Picardy . When it thunders in March it ...
... brings forth the adder ; And that craves wary walking . ” March dust and March win ' Bleaches as well as simmer's sin . - Scotland . Thunder . Si foëte de l'hernu en Mars Os pouvons dire hélas ! -Picardy . When it thunders in March it ...
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