"Hoarfrost" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... but you see I'm not! and I don't like the thought of it! You may like hoarfrost-sheets, for what I know, but I don't! You may like the stars for a tester—because you want to die and go to them, I suppose!—but I have no fancy for the stars! You are a foolish fellow, and I am out of temper with you. You don't ...
— A Rough Shaking • George MacDonald
... them all already; But before it never happened, Nor in future times will happen, That we meet so fine a household, Or we meet such handsome people, 660 Where the old folks are so stately, And the younger people pretty. Clothed in white are all the people, Like the forest in the hoarfrost, Under like the golden dawning: Over ...
— Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) - The Land of the Heroes • Anonymous
... looked out, and saw, just opposite, the legend DE AAR, which for the first time seemed to connect us with the war. We stopped a moment, and then moved on through lines of tents, loaded waggons, mountains of ammunition, etc. Then I saw a strange sight, in the shape of ice on puddles and white hoarfrost. Soon out on the broad, brown veldt, far-distant hills showing finely cut in the exquisitely clear air. Such an atmosphere I have never seen for purity. The sun was rising into a cloudless sky from behind a kopje. ...
— In the Ranks of the C.I.V. • Erskine Childers
... morning was fine and bright for the season; the hoarfrost, till about an hour after sunrise, lay white on the grass and tombstones in the churchyard; but before the bell rung for the congregation to assemble, it was exhaled away, and a freshness, that was only known to be autumnal by the fallen and yellow leaves that strewed the ...
— The Ayrshire Legatees • John Galt
... while. The frost had already begun. When the first snow falls, the first day of driving in sledges, it is good to see the white earth, the white roofs; one breathes easily, eagerly, and then one remembers the days of youth. The old lime-trees and birches, white with hoarfrost, have a kindly expression; they are nearer to the heart than cypresses and palm-trees, and with the dear familiar trees there is no need to think of ...
— The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories • Anton Tchekoff |
