When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.' And in the morning, It will be stormy today, for the ...sky is red and threatening.' You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. He answered and s...aid unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and... foul. People smoke to celebrate a happy moment, or to hide a bitter regret. Whether you're alone or with friends, it's a joy for all the senses. What lovelier sight is there than that double row of white cigarettes, lined up like soldiers on parade and wrapped in silver paper?... I love to touch the pack in my pocket, open it, savor the feel of the cigarette between my fingers, the paper on my lips, the taste of tobacco on my tongue. I love to watch the flame spurt up, love to watch it come closer and closer, filling me with its warmth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a... clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon- day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach'd, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and tho' you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he guggles down like mother's milk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The daughter who is her father's indulged "little princess" may spend the rest of her life stamping her foot when she doesn't get ...her way, or pulling away when a love affair hits rough waters, or becoming a fair-weather friend who detaches when a chum asks too much of her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise..., keeping up tradition, and expecting, beside fair weather and abundant harvests, we did not learn what. They were contented to live, since it was so contrived for them, and where their lines had fallen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the aspects of this desert are beautiful, whether you behold it in fair weather or foul, or when the sun is just breaking out ...after a storm, and shining on its moist surface in the distance, it is so white, and pure, and level, and each slight inequality and track is so distinctly revealed; and when your eyes slide off this, they fall on the ocean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fa...stened to a shed near the lighthouse a long new sign with the words "ANGLO SAXON" on it in large gilt letters, as if it were a useless part which the ship could afford to lose, or which the sailors had discharged at the same time with the pilot. But it interested somewhat as if it had been a part of the Argo, clipped off in passing through the Symplegades.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not wish to believe that the courts were made for fair weather, and for very civil cases merely; but think of leaving it to a...ny court in the land to decide whether more than three millions of people, in this case a sixth part of a nation, have a right to be freemen or not! But it has been left to the courts of justice, so called,--to the Supreme Court of the land,--and, as you all know, recognizing no authority but the Constitution, it has decided that the three millions are and shall continue to be slaves. Such judges as these are merely the inspectors of a pick- lock and murderer's tools, to tell him whether they are in working order or not, and there they think that their responsibility ends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Looking southward, the heavens were completely overcast, the mountains capped with clouds, and the lake generally wore a dark and ...stormy appearance, but from its surface just north of Sugar Island, six or eight miles distant, there was reflected upward to us through the misty air a bright blue tinge from the distant unseen sky of another latitude beyond. They probably had a clear sky then at Greenville, the south end of the lake. Standing on a mountain in the midst of a lake, where would you look for the first sign of approaching fair weather? Not into the heavens, it seems, but into the lake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »