| 单词 | vernal |
| 例句 | Since all seemed to be well, he began nibbling at a patch of sweet vernal with the best air of indifference that he could manage. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I have been green, too, Miss Eyre,—ay, grass green: not a more vernal tint freshens you now than once freshened me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The Persian New Year, on the vernal equinox, lasts for 13 days. To-Go Meals for Sizdeh Beder 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z The Chinese witch hazel is the most powerfully scented, but the native vernal witch hazel is pungently fragrant, though the flowers are not showy. Perspective | Gardens have largely lost their fragrance. Here’s how we can bring it back. 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z If you want native witch hazels, a species from Mississippi named Hamamelis ovalis and related to the vernal witch hazel is a delightful thing with profuse clusters of spiky, carmine-red blooms. Mild weather brings unusual activity to the January garden, both distressing and delightful 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Like the vernal equinox, New Directors/New Films is a sign that winter and the soul-crushing slog known as awards season have finally ended. At New Directors/New Films, See the World Through Perceptive Filmmakers’ Eyes 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z If those blossom miniatures are the show’s vernal parade, the wildness emanates from realistic prints and paintings that are mostly of African megafauna, notably lions. In the galleries: Medicine chests as a medium for reflection 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z This vernal flurry was a mere fanfare for The Avengers, the Marvel superhero movie whose gestation will be taught in business schools, if not film schools, for decades to come. 2012 Turnaround: The Avengers Brings People Back to the Movies 2013-01-03T17:21:00Z I decide, more or less at random, to paint “Lakeside Path,” a shimmering vernal tableau which falls almost exactly halfway through “Painting With Bob Ross.” Review | What is the strange allure of Bob Ross? I painted my way to an answer, sort of. 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Devouring mounds of spring greens, whether braised, boiled, stewed, sautéed or made into a tonic, is an age-old vernal tradition meant to fortify a body deprived of fresh vegetables after a winter without them. Gnocchi, Leeks, Soupy Greens: What Else Do You Need? 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z As homage to the original vernal theme, I flavored this one with a bit of ginger and garlic, a splash of mirin and soy and a soupçon of white miso to finish. A Spring Chicken Soup With Miso 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The first day of spring, also called the vernal equinox, will occur in the Northern Hemisphere on Sun., Winter solstice: What is it and when does it occur this year? 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z For the ancient Babylonians of Mesopotamia, New Year’s was a spring holiday, begun on the first full moon following the vernal equinox, and comprised 11 days of religious and political rituals. After spending 2 years in solitude, I know something about loneliness. So why is New Year’s still so rough? 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Easier on the wallet: attending the free concert series on summer Thursdays in the town gazebo or exploring the tidal wetlands, vernal pools and forested trails of the Thorne Head Preserve. Six U.S. budget vacation destinations 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Granted, the holiday no longer corresponds to a particular astronomical event like the vernal equinox. After spending 2 years in solitude, I know something about loneliness. So why is New Year’s still so rough? 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z In a way, this dish reminds me of the vernal version of a winter tomato soup with grilled cheese on the side — but with the fresh bright taste of spring. A Spoonful of Spring Asparagus, Green as Can Be 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Even if the vernal equinox doesn’t instantly usher in warmer weather, the ceremonial end of winter is a decent excuse to prep your spring wardrobe. Which Spring Trends to Try First? 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Around the vernal equinox, the park’s Horsetail Falls—a waterfall on the side of the infamous El Capitan rock formation—glows a bright orange. 16 of the Coolest Light Phenomena Around the World 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The ad, starring Jon Lovitz, is a general promotion for “avocados from Mexico” and is a hypnotic vernal number that urges “hipsters” to eat avocado toast, guacamole and other green buttery goodness. Watch: Get a sneak peek at four Super Bowl 51 ads 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z We don’t have babies just during lambing season or grow hair only after the vernal equinox or mark spring by growing a new pair of antlers. Of course this gardener is ‘getting ready for spring.’ He never stopped. 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z For us Iranians, the big festival of the year is Noruz, Iranian new year on the vernal equinox around 21 March. How we embraced Christmas 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Beyond its vernal beauty, such a carpet is a product of decades of unmolested increase, aided by the insects that spread the seeds. Perspective | As summer’s heat wanes, it’s time to plan (and plant) for late-winter beauty 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Parts of Yonkers are already becoming newly vernal, although the city has a reputation still marred by government corruption and school budget and desegregation battles. Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers Is Being Tended Once Again 2012-07-19T21:45:31Z As a self-confessed "science guy", he picked this Friday, 20 March, as the release date - coinciding with the vernal equinox, when we're set to have a partial solar eclipse. Nile Rodgers: It's About Time 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z One map reveals the locations of streams, wetlands, vernal pools and tidal flats that were buried or drastically altered to accommodate urban development. Tribal leaders and researchers have mapped the ancient "lost suburbs" of Los Angeles 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z The Northern Hemisphere’s spring — or vernal — equinox can land between March 19 and 21, depending on the year. The fall equinox is here. What does that mean? 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Then, in March, nature will once again bring us the vernal equinox, the time of year that ushers in spring in the North. Why the equinox ushers in the arrival of fall 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Inside a vault at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles lies a microscopic population of immense value—the repository for vernal pool fairy shrimp. This $600-Million Room Contains the World's Largest Collection of These Tiny Endangered Animals 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Carpets of gold, burrowing toads and fairy shrimp all depend on vernal pools—habitats that, most of the time, do not exist. Surviving in the Ephemeral Pools of Life 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z But there's no small amount of controversy when it comes to marshes, mires, fens, bogs, vernal pools, prairie ponds, pocosins, sloughs, small streams, seasonal streams, and rain-dependent streams. What a pending Supreme Court ruling could mean for Biden’s new clean water protections 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z For some, spring cleaning takes place around the time of the vernal equinox, which this year fell on March 20. Spring Cleaning Was Once Backbreaking Work. For Many, It Still Is. 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Those dates are swapped for the vernal and autumnal equinoxes in the Southern Hemisphere. Why the equinox ushers in the arrival of fall 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z The spring — or vernal — equinox can land on March 19, 20 or 21, depending on the year. It’s the first day of spring: Here’s what that really means 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z “The vernal equinox is a momentous poem among moments, overspilling its borders like the swelling of sunlight it heralds.” Spring Returns 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z It is also the average for March 23, two full days after astronomical spring arrives here with Monday’s vernal equinox. Gray sky doesn’t stop spring’s advance in D.C. 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z The winter season ebbs in favor of budding trees, as the vernal equinox arrives March 20 at 5:24 p.m., according to the observatory. Skywatch: Jupiter and Venus dance, spring arrives and, with it, a farewell 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z “With the rain we’ve been having, and the warmer weather, frogs and salamanders are going to be moving to ponds and vernal pools to lay their eggs.” Perspective | In a lather: What were those sudsy bubbles I saw on trees last week? 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z First, 10 days had to be dropped out of the calendar to bring the vernal equinox back to March 21; by proclamation, the day following October 4, 1582, became October 15. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The researchers lugged the camera, its 45-pound battery and about 75 feet of Ethernet cable to vernal pools in the woods by the Dartmouth campus. Now That’s What I Call Frog Mating Music! 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z “So it might be grasslands, it might be creeks, it might be vernal pools in California. It’s going to be different everywhere.” How Conserving 30 Percent of U.S. Land by 2030 Could Work 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z It is literally the moment when the sun is directly above the equator, marking the vernal equinox. Nowruz: A springtime celebration of optimism and healing 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The website highlights that, during the vernal equinox, the sun rises due East and sets due West. When is the spring equinox? 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z At the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, the Sun is on the celestial equator and we get about 12 hours of day and night. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z They hop out of the leaf litter and toward a vernal pool, usually the one where they first hatched, to find a mate. Now That’s What I Call Frog Mating Music! 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The vernal equinox marks the beginning of astronomical spring, where day and night are almost equal in length. Climate Check - BBC Weather 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Welcome the vernal equinox with a smile and brunch. Sky Watch: It’s breakfast with the planets in March 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z So even if the average temperature of 33 on Sunday, as of 7 p.m., might meet nobody’s conception of spring, signs suggested a trend in the vernal direction. Sunday spoke of winter but whispered also of spring 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z What is the right ascension and declination of the vernal equinox? Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The vernal equinox this year occurs right around 2:30 a.m. Seattle-area forecast: 2 glorious days, then a return to rain — and a wet spring equinox 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z The vernal equinox occurs at 5:37 a.m. on March 20, according to the Naval Observatory, ushering in the official start to spring. Skywatch: What’s happening in the heavens in March 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Dark watermarks on tree trunks show where knee-deep vernal pools — seasonal freshwater wetlands — fill up in springtime, nurturing salamanders and frogs. These Wetlands Helped Stop Flooding From Sandy. Now a BJ’s May Move In. 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z On each side of the road was a vernal pool. With the World on Pause, Salamanders Own the Road 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z On the day of the vernal equinox, the day length for all places on Earth is actually slightly longer than 12 hours. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The vernal equinox arrived March 19, the day California handed down the first statewide stay-at-home order in the United States. Among the mainstays of 2020 claimed by the pandemic: Spring 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Maybe Phil checked the calendar before he emerged from his burrow in Punxsutawney, Pa., and he knew that the vernal or spring equinox would fall on March 19 this year because of leap day. Spring starts Thursday with the vernal equinox. What does that mean? 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z In fact, the vernal equinox, which marks the official beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, is arriving on Thursday. Vernal equinox brings earliest spring to US in 124 years 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z “I like to think of the annual vernal pool cycle as a breathing cycle,” Mr. LeClair said. With the World on Pause, Salamanders Own the Road 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Spring arrives on Thursday with the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, and the autumnal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere. With the start of spring on Thursday, will the stronger sun chase away the coronavirus? 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z The vernal equinox, which marks the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere - and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere - will occur late Thursday night in the U.S. Stuck home? Planets, moon providing predawn entertainment 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Thursday is the vernal or spring equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. Spring starts Thursday with the vernal equinox. What does that mean? 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z The Stagecoach event was originally scheduled to begin on April 10, less than a month after the vernal equinox on March 19, which marks the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Music fans at postponed events may find Coachella a little warmer in October than in April 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Astronomically speaking, winter becomes spring as the vernal equinox arrives March 19 at 11:50 p.m. Skywatch: What’s happening in the heavens in March 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z The Easter holiday split away from the vernal equinox and crept toward summer. This leap day and year would be the last ever if two scholars have their way 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z We lost most of our amphibian population, as the vernal pools containing their eggs were inundated by the runoff. Opinion | Stream restoration has made a big difference to this community 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z March 20 is the vernal equinox, which traditionally marks the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. The spring equinox arrives Wednesday evening. Here’s everything you need to know. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Winter weather may still be lingering, but that hasn't stopped people across the country from celebrating what's known as the vernal equinox. First day of spring arrives: 5 things to know about the vernal equinox 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Good news: The vernal equinox arrives March 20 at 5:58 p.m. — marking the astronomical start to spring in the northern hemisphere. Skywatch: Spring forward in March with a time change and the brightness of Venus 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z After the announcement of a vernal royal birth, the question “when is spring?” spiked in Google searches. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Announce She’s Pregnant 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z The Valley News reports Jon Bouton was hosting an educational tour last month in Hartford Town Forest when he discovered the Jefferson salamander in a vernal pool. Rare salamander spotted in Vermont forest 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z While a full moon on the first day of spring is relatively rare, the vernal equinox happens every year on or around March 20. The spring equinox arrives Wednesday evening. Here’s everything you need to know. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Tuesday, however, will likely be the slightly more vernal of the two days, and on Wednesday evening, things will start to cool down again, Guy said. Spring has sprung, but winter-like weather will return — so here are some Seattle weather jokes to lighten the mood 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z This year, the vernal, or spring, equinox will occur on Tuesday, March 20. Vernal Equinox 2018: Facts About the First Day of Spring 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Meteorologists are predicting more wintry weather for the D.C. region for Tuesday’s vernal equinox and beyond. D.C. expected to get wintry weather beginning Tuesday 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Nowruz is an ancient holiday that starts on the vernal equinox, the first day of spring, and continues for 13 days. Persian New Year celebrated at Seattle City Hall 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Only the hardiest frogs and salamanders are testing the edges of still largely frozen vernal pools. Spring Awakens! And Partridgeberry Has the Proof 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The vernal equinox, which occurs this year at 9:15 a.m. Spring has sprung, but winter-like weather will return — so here are some Seattle weather jokes to lighten the mood 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z In March, the vernal equinox signals the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the south, and the reverse happens during the September equinox. Vernal Equinox 2018: Facts About the First Day of Spring 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Spring officially starts at the vernal equinox March 20 at 12:15 p.m. Skywatch: In March, planets loiter together in the evening and morning heavens 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Critics, however, say the deal is too friendly to developers and that the city is blowing its last chance to create meaningful protections for vernal pools. Environmental deal expected to benefit San Diego development 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z The Babylonians celebrated New Year’s in March, when the vernal equinox—a day of equal light and darkness—takes place. The Long and Winding Road to New Year’s 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Federal waterways protections that state officials were relying on to save sensitive vernal pools and boost fisheries are gone. Trump's environmental rollbacks hit California hard, despite Sacramento's resistance – LA Times 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z For the other half of the planet, September 22 is the vernal equinox, signaling the beginning of spring. The Autumn Equinox is Here! Wait, What's the Autumn Equinox? 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z And the acreage hosts during most spring seasons an ephemeral vernal pool that provides habitat for frogs, toads and salamanders - amphibians vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Blue Ridge Land Conservancy marks 20 years of shielding land 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z The day is formally known at the vernal equinox. Happy spring: 5 things to know about the vernal equinox 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Spring, which starts with the vernal equinox at 6:28 a.m. After weird winter, U.S. forecasters see warm, wet spring 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Officials say the vernal equinox happens when the day is equally divided between the hours of darkness and light. Cahokia Mounds to host event marking spring’s arrival 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z These are hard days for cooking, as winter too slowly gives way to vernal rain and sunshine. A Caramelized Cabbage Casserole to Get You to Spring 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z “The wetlands in my case amount to very minor depressions — they’re vernal pools — far away and disconnected from any stream or navigable waters,” Duarte said. Water rule rollback gives growers what they wanted from Trump 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Muslim Holy Day on Sept. 11? Coincidence Stirs Fears 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z The festival honored Cybele, an ancient Greek Mother of Gods, and its celebrations included parades, masquerades and jokes to celebrate the first day after the vernal equinox. No Kidding: We Have No Idea How April Fools' Day Started 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z That was celebrated on the first full moon following the vernal equinox. Why can’t the date of Easter be fixed? - BBC News 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z This should not be confused with the popular notion that Easter is the first Sunday after the first Full Moon following the vernal equinox. Here's Why Easter Is Early This Year 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Sunday is the vernal equinox, the official start of spring. Spring May Start With Snow in New York Region 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z In March, the vernal equinox signals the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the southern, and the reverse happens during the autumnal equinox. First Day of Spring Marked With Sun Daggers, Light Snakes “Traditionally, the vernal equinox was thought of as the beginning of the year in the Julian calendar,” notes Simon J. Bronner, a professor of American Studies and Folklore at Penn State. No Kidding: We Have No Idea How April Fools' Day Started 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Easter was to be on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal or spring equinox. Why can’t the date of Easter be fixed? - BBC News 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z In the first place, the vernal equinox does not necessarily occur on March 21. Here's Why Easter Is Early This Year 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z The date is important to Catholics, and some other Christians, because they celebrate Easter on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Behind the Logic, and Lore, of Leap Day 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z While that groundhog in Punxsutawney, Pa., surmises vernal visions Tuesday, it’s an unofficial halfway point of winter. All five visible planets putting on morning shows 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z For the other half of the planet, Wednesday is the vernal equinox, signaling the beginning of spring. The Autumn Equinox is Here! Wait, What's the Autumn Equinox? 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z The vernal friends with benefits remain clueless to the thriller unfolding elsewhere. Yogurt, gore and a DIY cremation collide in inarticulate 'Uncle John' 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Trees along a creek were cut down, and a vernal pool, habitat for a protected species of freshwater shrimp, was bulldozed. Oregon takes first steps into era of legal retail marijuana 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z To realign his calendar with the vernal equinox, Pope Gregory removed 10 days from the middle of October. Behind the Logic, and Lore, of Leap Day 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Oralair, one of the drugs approved for use in the United States, includes freeze-dried extracts from the pollen of five grasses: Kentucky blue grass, orchard, perennial rye, sweet vernal and timothy. Under-the-Tongue Hay Fever Pills Offer Little Benefit: Study 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Some of the best ponds and vernal pools in Brooklyn and Queens are — or were — a little surprising, including small litter-lined depressions next to roads, or construction sites. Finding a Fowler’s Toad in New York City 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z It’s calculated as the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox. Easter's Ever-Changing Date and the People Who Tried to Fix It 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z It is hard to imagine that the dark vernal pools of April, so recently ice-limned, are now at the vanguard of spring’s incursion. In New York Waters, It's Time for the Spring Peeper's Love Song 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The current pattern of leap years was designed to keep March 21, the ecclesiastical date of the vernal equinox, aligned with the astronomical event. Behind the Logic, and Lore, of Leap Day 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z In a process basically unrelated to Friday’s snowfall in Washington, the vernal, or spring, equinox occurred at 6:45 p.m. Suspect charged in fatal shooting in Southeast Washington 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Friday may mark the vernal equinox, but the first day of spring is feeling more like a mean slap from winter with snow, rain and the chills coursing through a large swath of the nation. 1st day of spring gets cold, hard slap in East, gentle temps in West 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The Sun, the Moon, and Google are celebrating the official start of spring — this year’s vernal equinox on March 20 will include a solar eclipse, a supermoon and a stop-animation Google Doodle. New Google Doodle Celebrates First Day of Spring 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z And for Persians, the day is especially noteworthy: The first day of spring – which falls on the vernal equinox – also marks Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Celestial Friday: Total Eclipse, Supermoon, Equinox and Nowruz to Overlap 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The vernal equinox brings spring’s official arrival on March 20 at 6:45 p.m. Skywatch: Venus and Jupiter continue to accentuate the night heavens 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z The parcels include four potential vernal pools, an island, and the largest marsh area within the lake that provides habitat for the only nesting loon pair. New Hampshire announces $1M in wetland grants 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z The result is a complex fragrance that manages to evoke feelings both autumnal and vernal – dry pine needles, cedar, a dash of ginger. The Motley's new scent, Cyprus, evokes shaving cream, conifers 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z After this bleak and blustery Washington winter, smile when you see these two words: vernal equinox. With the start of spring just weeks away, several planets are becoming hard to miss 2014-03-01T21:39:00Z Mr. Wedlick, who has been protecting vernal pools in his latest passive-house project, and dreaming up a natural pool cleansed by plants, said, “Why don’t we use plants to cleanse the water?” At Home With Dennis Wedlick: In Pursuit of the Perfectly Passive 2013-08-14T22:07:42Z How did ancient peoples observe and measure the date of the vernal equinox, if it is blocked by the sunlit sky? Vernal Equinox Marks First Day of Spring Today 2013-03-20T17:45:05.467Z The properties contain 21 wetland areas totaling 25 acres ranging from tiny vernal pools to a 10-acre beaver flowage. New Hampshire announces $1M in wetland grants 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z It will cross the equator at the vernal equinox, passing into the Northern Hemisphere on March 20, at 7:02 a.m. Dec. 21: The Winter Solstice Explained 2012-12-21T21:15:00.240Z The astronomical start to spring — the vernal equinox — occurs at 12:57 p.m. With the start of spring just weeks away, several planets are becoming hard to miss 2014-03-01T21:39:00Z One of the boatmen told me yesterday that in the Spring large masses of the vernal squill are to be found upon the hills near here. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z At the edge of one droughty vernal pool is a single, eager bloom of wild geranium. City Room: Spring Time: Dance of the Bumblebees 2012-04-12T18:06:10Z Pistils 3–10, sessile, forming coriaceous many-seeded pods.—Perennial herbs, with ample palmate or pedate leaves, and large, solitary, nodding, early vernal flowers. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The latter professes to begin at the vernal equinox, but the actual position is as follows. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The Moon, too, brings her world so nigh, That when the night-seer looks To that shadowless orb, in a vernal sky, He can number its hills and brooks. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Thus the supposed death more frequently occurred at the beginning of spring, and was mourned for a lenten period of forty days, which the vernal equinox brought to a close. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z April, May.–A delicate vernal species; the flower 1´ broad. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The country, which at this season of the year is usually decked in vernal bloom, looked bare and desolate. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z “Did not Hercules by force Wrest from the guardian Monster of the tomb Alcestis, a reanimated Corse, Given back to dwell on earth in vernal bloom?” Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z At an earlier period the sun entered the zodiacal sign of Taurus at the vernal equinox. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Another complication revolving around the vernal equinox concerns the length of day versus night. Spring Arrives with Equinox Tuesday, Earliest in More Than a Century 2012-03-19T19:45:00.230Z Next moment he had flung open the door and was out upon the platform, inhaling great gulps of vernal air and looking for the station-master. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z He was in a state of vernal agitation, in a fever of lofty impulses. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z Hipparchus was an accurate observer, and he discovered an apparent and perpetual shifting of the vernal equinox westward, by which the right ascensions of the stars are all the time increasing. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z Not all these sweets, these sounds, this vernal blaze, Is but one joy, express'd a thousand ways; And honey from the flowers, and song of birds, Are from the poet's pen, his overflowing words. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z The sun is now migrating north of the equator, hence this is the "vernal" or spring equinox. Spring Arrives with Equinox Tuesday, Earliest in More Than a Century 2012-03-19T19:45:00.230Z The first cautious peep from a window upon the world you left snow white, and find in vernal green, is an experience almost worth the miseries you have so impatiently endured. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Their little minds, like tender buds In vernal hours, she sees unfold, And young affection in their eyes Is gleaming like a gem of gold. Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent 2012-03-10T03:00:13.687Z We thus find these causes acting with renewed power at the season when the disease usually makes its attack,—the vernal equinox, when an increased flood of solar rays breaks on them. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The beautiful vernal light in this tree bower may be described in Andrew Marvell's words:— "Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade." Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Not to mention the more vernal flowers, the first might contain the flora of May; the second that of June; the third that of July; and the fourth that of August and the following months. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The feast was celebrated shortly before the vernal equinox and continued nine days. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z In midsummer, which is the vernal springtime of the mountains, many lovely species deck the alpine meadows and brooksides. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z From the grey branches of the ivied ash The stock-dove pours her vernal elegy, While further down the vale Echoes the cuckoo's note. A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers 2012-02-13T03:00:15.823Z Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous and fresh and clear thy music doth surpass. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z These, in successive turn, with lavish hand, Shower every beauty, every fragrance shower, Herbs, flowers, and fruits; till, kindling at thy touch, From land to land is flush'd the vernal year. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z Three times in the year did the Northmen gather in this manner to feast and to invoke the gods: at Yule-tide in January, at the vernal equinox, and late in the autumn. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z After the season of blossoming is over in the lowlands, we may pass on up into the mountains and live again through a vernal springtime of flowers. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z And on this balmy vernal spot, stand amid flowers, over which the trees are shaking blossoms instead of leaves, a bride and a bridegroom.... Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Now spring returns: but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; Dim in my breast, life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z In fact I have accepted destiny here, under the vernal influence. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z But dread the beauty of a vernal day, Thou trembler before memory! The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z Hence we must assume that in Adonis was personified the vernal sun, the bloom of vegetation, which so soon begins to droop. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z And besides, dear Fixlein, on this soft rich oil of joy there was also floating gratis a vernal sun,—and red twilights,—and flower-garlands,—and a bursting half world of buds!... Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Outside the window the birds piped happily from vernal branches; the shadows played hide-and-seek upon the grass, and the beck babbled and laughed as it raced down behind the house. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z The resurrection of several of them about the time of the vernal equinox. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z Softly they lean on each other's breast, In holy bliss reposing, Like two fair clouds to the vernal air In folds of beauty closing. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z So, by thy grace, may it be often ours To see dethron�d Winter deck'd in flowers; On snow that falls i' roses still to gaze, Sweet vernal Winters and December Mays! The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z In vernal skies Thus tempests rise, And clouds obscure the brightest sun— Few wreathes are gain'd With blood unstain'd, No honours without ruin won. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z At the vernal equinox, the ancients celebrated the bridal of the sun and the earth. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z For her vernal triumphs, we Tune the harp to symphony— Conquest has attended me. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z Yet doth each slope a vernal promise know: See, mounting yonder, white as angel's wing. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z Suff'ring is not always loss; Often underneath the cross— Heavy, crushing, wearing, slow, Causing us in dread to go— All unsuspected lieth gain, Like sunshine in vernal rain. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z Yet, still in hopes of vernal showers, And breezes, moist with morning dew, I pass the lingering, lazy hours, Reflecting on the spring—and you. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z The vernal equinox was therefore universally considered to be the time: of creation. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z And o'er the features of the mind Renew those colours, that must fade, When vernal suns forbear to roll, And endless winter chills the soul. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z It is a memory-hallowed spot Where joy assumes its vernal guise, And two walk silent side by side, Youth's glory shining in their eyes. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z Now the Hebrew people held the first day of the year on the vernal equinox, because on that day the yearly seasons were set. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z “It is the night of the vernal equinox,” occurred to him suddenly, sharp as a whispered voice beside him. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z Like everything else relating to Christ, or Christos, the dogma of the ascension has no doubt its allegorical root in the Sun's apparent exaltation in the heavens, from the vernal equinox to the summer solstice. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z This year is said to have begun with the vernal equinox, i. e. the period when the vigour of nature again shows itself. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z During those golden summer mornings in which he wandered in the more or less vernal meadows engirdling the city, latent, unsuspected forces began to awake. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Even a straggling wasp or two winnowing down over the table, was not unwelcome, as a sure guarantee that summer was here: rich, glowing, vernal, English summer. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Write thou, and let me know that things are greener and more vernal where you are. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z The vast cemetery had now no vernal or summer charm. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z In the vernal season the direction of the flight is reversed, and they arrive in similar condition on the Russian coast. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Why doesn't the vernal equinox occur on March 21 anymore? Most Popular Skywatching Misconceptions Explained 2011-11-14T21:45:00.213Z In locomotion the orang disdains the earth and perambulates the vernal terraces of the forest trees. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z The day was beautiful: clear sky, balmy vernal sun, tranquil atmosphere; and the assemblage immense. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z It was the morning of the day, of the season, of the Australian year, of our two lives; and I could never lose the memory of my sensations in that vernal hour. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z And now we have enjoyed another season of merciful visitation, and the daily services of Lent have been like vernal sun and shower to the fig-tree. Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z This was the mourning cloak, with me the first vernal butterfly. Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifity Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes 2011-10-14T02:00:28.840Z A cat, which had a numerous litter of kittens," says Captain Brown, "one sunny day encouraged her little ones to frolic in the vernal beams of noon, about the stable door, where she was domiciled. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z This vernal leaf fall makes little show on the forest floor, but it greatly exceeds in number of leaves the autumnal defoliation. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z These points are called the vernal and the autumnal equinoxes. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z Life is in the breezes, life in the vernal glory of the fields, life in the earth and in the skies. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z But, of course, this has practically nothing to do with Spring, or, as the boys call it, the "vernal equinox." Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z And Keats the real Adonis with the hymeneal Fresh vernal buds half sunk between His youthful curls, kissed straight and sheen In his Rome-grave, by Venus queen. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z They know that each spring reënacts the vernal miracle. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Right ascension, corresponding to terrestrial longitude, is the angular distance of a heavenly body from the vernal equinox measured on the celestial equator eastward to the hour circle passing through the body. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z At the time they were first named the vernal equinox began with Taurus. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z It has a brilliant iridescent background after the style of the first few pages of the “Songs of Innocence,” but less vernal, more autumnal, in its richness of colour. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z That such a brave company, as it passed through the mild vernal air of that delightful season from stage to stage of its itinerary, experienced no dearth of hospitable offices, we may rest assured. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z Thus it happened, that one morning the vernal sun darted his unclouded golden gleams into my chamber. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z For their jewels will be unfolding presently, to soften the cleft granite with misty green and bring the vernal time to these silent cliffs. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z She was reading a book in a vernal bower. The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z Fifty bright summer suns have smiled, And fifty harvest moons beguiled Childhood and youth, since vernal showers First moistened freedom's lovely flowers. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z He had scarcely an eye for the vernal splendour of the grand scenery which surrounded him; but he certainly felt impressed on seeing the peasantry on horseback ready to receive him into their village. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z The more general explanation is, that the cuckoo, as a symbol of the vernal season, represents the heaven in its wooing of the earth. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z We have made the circuit of the sky, and the hosts that illumine the vernal heavens are now seen advancing from the east, and pressing close upon the brighter squadrons of winter. Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments 2011-07-17T02:00:30.177Z The vernal equinox is in March, when the sun enters the sign Aries; the autumnal equinox in September, when the sun enters Libra. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z The westering sunlight flooded down upon the vernal sheen of tossing oak foliage and smoothly undulating grass with a richness of glow that was well-nigh unearthly in the sensuous stillness of the August evening. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z Following the Zoroastrian custom, Baha ordains that the year begin at the vernal equinox—March 21—because that is the spring-time, the time of the renewal of vegetable life. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z M. Decharme decides that the stars are the Pleiades, the Graces the rays of the vernal sun, and Dionysus as a bull the symbol of the vernal sun itself. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Owing to the precession of the equinoxes, however, the vernal equinoctial point, which was formerly in this constellation, has now advanced into the constellation Pisces, as we saw above. Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments 2011-07-17T02:00:30.177Z The sun enters Aries, at the time of the vernal equinox; Cancer, at the summer solstice; Libra, at the autumnal equinox; and Capricornus, at the winter solstice. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z By such steps as these, the vernal moult might be ren84dered more and more complete, until a perfect double moult was acquired. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z At that epoch the vernal equinox happened on the 11th instead of the 21st of March. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z The probable conclusion seems to be that the Adonis ritual expresses certain natural human ways of regarding the vernal year. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The beautiful picture, traced by the pencil of Innocence and Hope, is clouded and defaced for ever—the vernal skies are darkened—the cold tempest winds of grief and remorse desolate the landscape. The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z Shaffer and his colleagues collected genetic data from salamander larvae in 16 of these vernal pools in Monterey County, Calif. With genetic analysis, they could estimate the amount of gene crossing among the pool populations. Genetics and Geographical Mapping Help to Crack Ecological Puzzles for Rare Species 2011-06-20T17:45:00.253Z In common with most others, the Mosaic system of annual feasts groups itself readily around the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z In the first place we may notice that in the time of Hipparchus the vernal equinox was in the first degree of the Ram, from which our own arrangement has originated. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z The youth comes in spring, the bridegroom to the bride, the vernal year is their honeymoon. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z To give a Grandeur to the Opening Lawn; And pleasing Softness, to the solemn Dawn; To join the vivid, with the vernal Bloom; Where scarce a Sun Beam wanders thro' the Gloom. The Art of Architecture A Poem In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry 2011-06-17T02:00:16.870Z In all his poetry there leaped and frolicked "vernal delight and joy." The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z We may doubt if the vernal scenes of Chaucer can be partaken by his more chilly posterity. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Just after the vernal equinox the third hour of Mark would be about 9 A.M., and the sixth hour of the Synoptists would be about noon. A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version 2011-05-31T02:00:30.837Z In Norwich primroses and other vernal flowers were in full bloom on Christmas eve, and strawberries were gathered at Swainsthorpe on Christmas morning. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z Thus the errors of the calendar continued to increase until 1582, when the vernal equinox fell on the 11th instead of the 21st of March. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z The great vernal equinox of April 178-, was the cause of certain unusual movements of the tide, which made old mariners and coast-fishermen shake their heads and gaze seaward, out of all reckoning. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z Hovers not already in the cold ether out there the first vernal song, the first fluttering lark? Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z Here then we understand that Pilate passed the sentence about sunrise, which at the Passover, near the vernal equinox, would be 6 o'clock. A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version 2011-05-31T02:00:30.837Z And now as the biting winds of winter yield to the balmy breezes from the south all the vernal flora is quickened into life and beauty. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:17.413Z Attention is called to four points on the ecliptic, namely, the vernal equinox, the autumnal equinox, the winter solstice, and the summer solstice. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z And on this balmy, vernal spot stand, amid flowers, over which the trees are shaking blossoms instead of leaves, a bride and a bridegroom.... The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z Beneath me Lay the smiling plain in vernal beauty. Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts 2011-04-14T02:00:57.593Z From the First Point of Aries, or the place of the sun at the vernal equinox, the degrees of the ecliptic are counted from west to east. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z No sooner gathered from the vernal bough, Where fresh and blooming to the sight it grew. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z In 24,350 years, the vernal equinox would take the place of the autumnal equinox, and the winter solstice the place of the summer solstice. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z Who but he could rhapsodize over a cut flower or a bit of green; or could speak in spring “of being gay and vernal and daffodilean?” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z The vernal equinox is a time of new beginnings, both temporal and astrological. Spring Forth with Tonight's Vernal Equinox 2011-03-20T06:50:00Z Such was the Chinese vernal festival of fire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z As everyone knows, the first Sunday following the Gregorian date of the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox is not a fixed date. Mortgage lending remains sluggish 2011-03-18T12:42:48Z When Cæsar formed his calendar, 46 B. C., the vernal equinox fell on the 24th of March. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z What! let her slip now that God has sent her to his arms on this strange high place in this blessed vernal morning? Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z As when a shepherd on a vernal morn Through some thick fog creeps timorous with slow foot, Darkling with earnest eyes he traces out The immediate road, all else of fairest kind Hid or deformed. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z Scow-like across the deep he came, Blood-red his iron sides; With beak, and claws, and fins of flame To plow the vernal tides. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z A military band was playing at headquarters, down in the night-begloomed town, and now and again the great blare of the brasses came widely surging on the raw vernal gusts. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z They are called vernal and autumnal respectively, from the relation of the corresponding times to the seasons of the northern hemisphere. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Now it is laying long shadows about mead and street—shadows of noble buildings, of cropping cows, of commonplace yet dawn-ennobled houses, and of vernal trees. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z Any one observant of the habit of our best English song-birds must be aware that after singing, with a rapturous lyrical carelessness, through the vernal months, they become silent during the heat of summer. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z Easter day, instead of being celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox, is in Abyssinia kept one lunation later. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Left presently alone in the library, he serenely watched through the long window the slow progress of the shadows following the golden vernal sunshine throughout the grove. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z Of Peggy Thomson, his second love, he wrote: Not vernal showers to budding flowers, Not autumn to the farmer, So dear can be as thou to me, My fair, my lovely charmer. The Real Robert Burns 2011-02-18T03:00:20.253Z Monday’s vernal temperatures are gone, replaced by a bright, brisk Tuesday with highs around freezing. | A Manual for Coping With Horror 2011-02-15T13:35:51Z He knew, moreover, that it was close upon the vernal equinox, when the sun was crossing the equatorial line, near to which they were wandering. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z The vernal equinox in America, north of the 44° of north latitude, generally takes place while the ground is covered with snow, and winter still wears a polar aspect. Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends 2011-02-06T03:01:02.343Z Why should we waste our vernal years In hoarding useless treasure? The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Her look was like the morning’s eye, Her air like Nature’s vernal smile. The Real Robert Burns 2011-02-18T03:00:20.253Z The first worlds made were winter worlds; the second made, were vernal worlds; the third, and last, and perfectest, was this summer world of ours. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z The line drawn from the sun toward the right of the figure shows the direction to the vernal equinox. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z New York has found her Spring—a warm, almost vernal night, this, and I smell the sea.... She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Images of vernal brightness floated before the poet's mind, and feelings of youth, and hope, and joy were blended with the thoughts of her he loved: images such as Shakespeare could alone have conceived. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z It takes a very old and hardened cynic to resist nature at her vernal period. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z Would Erna believe that yonder withered shrub had ever blossomed in vernal brightness and beauty? Quisisana, or Rest at Last 2010-12-29T03:00:30.857Z How many days will be required for it to move completely around the ecliptic from vernal equinox back to vernal equinox again? A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z To open that great flower, too cold Were sun and vernal rain; But fire has forced it to unfold, Nor will it shut again. The Two Twilights 2010-12-25T03:00:12.393Z So if the tree fails to put forth leaves in response to the rising vernal temperature, it is an indication of death. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z In Cardiganshire, the tradition respecting an encampment called Moyddin, which the fairies frequented, is that they were always in green dresses, and were never seen there but in the vernal month of May. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Men will rise up and welcome his quickening words as vernal grass at the first rains of spring. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z Right ascension is always measured from the vernal equinox in the direction opposite to that in which the stars appear to travel in their diurnal motion—i. e., from west toward east. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z The vernal equinox is taken as the initial point on the sphere from which co-ordinates are measured in the equatorial and ecliptic systems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The legend was developed into a drama, which, at the vernal festival of the goddess, was produced with striking, if not artistic, effect. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius It is the first of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Again the earth, miraculous with May, Unfolds its vernal arras. The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy The straight line in Fig. 14, with cross ruling upon it, is a part of the ecliptic, and the numbers placed opposite it represent the distance, in degrees, from the vernal equinox. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z The other two systems, including the vernal equinox, are fixed on the celestial sphere, and so seem to us to perform a diurnal revolution from east towards west. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The girl looked at them compassionately as they were whipped to and fro by the wind, the eager young leaves which, full of vernal life and pride of youth, were trying hard to unfold. Small Souls Across the dusky land The Gracious Goddess, Spring, In vernal robes arrayed, Last night her royal progress made, Scattering with lavish hand Her fragrant blossoming. The Coast of Bohemia Then, within Thy fold eternal, Let them find a resting place, Feed in pastures ever vernal, Drink the rivers of Thy grace. The Story of Our Hymns In Fig. 15 the straight line represents the direction from the sun toward the vernal equinox, and the angle which this line makes with the line joining earth and sun is called the earth's longitude. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z For example, if the right ascension of a star is exactly 15�, it will pass the meridian one sidereal hour after the vernal equinox. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Soft and fragrant are their flowers, Glossy from the vernal showers. The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches Suddenly the Zanthos spread itself out on the horizon: the wide expanse of flooded water, one great lake under the broad, gleaming, vernal sky. Majesty A Novel Thou who givest life and breath, Let our hope in sight of death Blossom bright and vernal; And above the silent tomb Let the Easter lilies bloom, Signs of life eternal. The Story of Our Hymns Only a small part of the vegetation of the season comes directly from the seed, and none of the earliest vernal vegetation. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools A cat, which had a numerous litter of kittens, one summer day in spring, encouraged her little ones to frolic in the vernal beams of the noon, about the stable door, where she dwelt. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom We will, accordingly, make winter a short link of two months—an autumnal and a vernal hand—December and January. Springtime and Other Essays The heaven embosom’d sun; the rainbow’s die Where lucid forms disport to fancy’s eye; The vernal flower, mild autumn’s purpling glow, The summer’s thunder and the winter’s snow.” Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Like the first two years of the war, the present year seemed strange, unreal; its vernal breezes brought no balm, its blue skies no content. The Moonlit Way It was in the spring-time, and the peach-trees and almond-trees hung full of blossoms and bees; the lizards lay in the walks absorbing the vernal sunshine; the violets and cowslips sweetened all the grassy borders. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 The minimum and maximum of this annual component of the variation occur at the meridian of Greenwich, about ten days before the vernal and autumnal equinoxes respectively, and it becomes zero just before the solstices. Astronomical Discovery As one who loves wind-instruments, I like to think that the flutes, oboes, and clarinets are the flowers of my vernal orchestra, decorating the great mass of stringed instruments with streaks and flames of colour. Springtime and Other Essays To you the skies are blue, the woods vernal, the air balmy; the sad looks upon men's and women's faces, tell but shallow tales of the ceaseless grinding of grief in their pent up souls. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life The foliage of a young woodland walled in this vernal scene; the auditorium was a semi-circle of amber marble—rows of low benches, tier on tier, rising to a level with the lawn above. The Moonlit Way Like blossom’d trees o’erturn’d by vernal storm, Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there; Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes Yet with the approach of the vernal equinox I began to overhaul my buckskins. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois But how sad and strange she looked, flitting through the vernal freshness of the forest! Clover and Blue Grass You have delighted me, and not only me, but also our friend Griffith, and his good helpmate, with the proposal, if it be feasible, of a vernal visit. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. These emerald islets, fed by vernal skies, never grow sere and yellow in the autumn; never bleak and desolate in the winter. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. These, however, he loved to exhibit in their vernal, rather than their autumnal character. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 There did he live content; and all his thoughts Were blithe as vernal flowers.— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) Now the girls’ flower gardens were made, the vines ’Phemie had planted were growing, the old lawns about the big farmhouse were a vernal green and the garden displayed many promising rows of spring vegetables. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks When the vernal or autumnal storms delay to break, they are gathering strength; hoarding up their fury for more sure destruction. Toilers of the Sea So every vernal morn207 Brought with it scents of flowers, or songs of birds, Mingled with many shapings of old things, And days gone by. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 A little white clover or sweet vernal grass or sheep’s fescue may be added, if you fancy them, but they will not improve the appearance of the lawn. Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 It is a fixed, feminine, vernal, earthy sign. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 It is regulated by the occurrence of the paschal moon, or first full moon between the vernal equinox and fourteen days afterward. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 That is impregnated with the breath of a vernal night. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. The Spaniards were surprised to see the Mexicans keep the vernal forty days' fast. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning I leave to you the analysis of the rest of the poem: Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation Act�on drank in with his eyes the form of her vernal body. Sónnica In the year 1816, two days before the vernal equinox, I sailed from Liverpool for Pernambuco, in the southern hemisphere, on the coast of Brazil. Wanderings in South America The tree blooms late, often escaping vernal frosts. The Apple Although Orchard Street is by no means so objectionable a thoroughfare as human ingenuity might make it, still, in spite of its pleasant-sounding name, it is not altogether a vernal paradise. The Witches of New York “The Graces were guardians of the vernal sweetness and beauty of nature, friends and protectors of everything graceful and beautiful.” Minor Poems by Milton I am expecting to bring the happiest of brides home about the vernal equinox. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II "Now spring returns—but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown." Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) When the vernal equinox came, and we could sit down to dinner at sunset, the spell of death seemed to be at last broken. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 At Tyre the year was counted from the 19th of our October, at Gaza from the 28th of the same month, and at Damascus from the vernal equinox. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Are we feeling the vernal freshness and sunshine of enlightened faith? Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 We have lovely weather now, and vegetation shows signs of the return of the vernal season. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital The whole building is at all times as fresh as if just washed by a vernal shower. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) I am still, however, harassed by the unauthentic Muse; if I cared to encourage her—but I have not the time, and anyway we are at the vernal equinox. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) He was fond of quoting Wordsworth's stanza: "One impulse from a vernal wood Will teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can." Alaska Days with John Muir It draws back the curtain of cloud-land, and feeds your fancy with forms that never have been, and never will be; summons spirits from the air, and gives melodious voices to all vernal things. Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It O, life was like a bird that sings At morning on a vernal bough! Ioläus The man that was a ghost Grant, Jesus! grant that my poor heart Feed in Thy pastures vernal! Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly At the vernal equinox the sun is increasing in power, the world is astir with new life, and begins to reassume its mantle of green. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) The starting point is the vernal equinox, which was the time of a common Pagan festival. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Two sickly leaves for me, and the world alive with vernal things! Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It The Pleiades being then in conjunction with what is now called the first point of Aries, culminated at noon, not at midnight, at the time of the vernal equinox. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 Perhaps it was the unseasonable band of violets around her hat-brim; perhaps it was the vernal gaiety of her dress; perhaps it was the uncertainty of her anxious eyes, which presumed while they implored. The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse Hard is their shallow soil, and bleak and bare; 170 Nor ever vernal bee was heard to murmur there! The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir And I think they knew that this plenary 68 sacrament would occur in the vernal season, in the month of March, whose sign or symbol was Aries, the Ram.” An Orkney Maid That death-stain on the vernal sward Hallowed to freedom all the shore; In fragments fell the yoke abhorred— The footstep of a foreign lord Profaned the soil no more. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition Blessed Fount of life and breath, Let our hope in view of death Blossom bright and vernal; And above the silent tomb Let the Easter lilies bloom, Signs of life eternal. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark Cold wet weather in blooming time is the grape-grower's vernal bane, since it most effectually prevents the setting of fruit. Manual of American Grape-Growing Relieved from toils, behold the aged steed Contented crop the rich enamell’d mead, Bask in the solar ray, or court the shade, As vernal suns invite, or summer heats invade! A Walk from London to Fulham Beneath the blue it openeth, Rising on slender, vernal rod, Spreading its soul in fragrant breath For solitude and for its God. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems Nor frost nor heat may blight Thy vernal beauty, fertile shore, 141Yielding thy blessed fruits for evermore. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition Then shall the kingdom bright appear In glory true and vernal, And usher in the golden year Of peace and joy eternal. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark The fragrant birch, above him, hung Her tassels in the sky; And many a vernal blossom sprung, And nodded, careless, by. The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems It chanced one evening about this time—the vernal equinox had just passed—that from some small cause Richling, who was generally detained at the desk until a late hour, was home early. Dr. Sevier The last few days have begun the vernal equinox. Tales of Fishes The fragrant birch, above him, hung Her tassels in the sky; And many a vernal blossom sprung, And nodded careless by. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition Then journey we to our fatherland, Where summer reigns bright and vernal. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark They began the year at the appearance of the first new moon of the vernal equinox, according to the ecclesiastical year of Moses. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State Once more the young year glories in the feat Of driving winter off with vernal heat And tepid sap luxuriantly strong. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland As the earth in May Glistens with vernal flowers, or as the face Of one whose love at last has found return Irradiate shines, so shone King Anna's house, A home of Christian peace. Legends of the Saxon Saints “So may no vernal frosts thy budding fruits “Destroy, nor sweeping storms despoil thy flowers.” The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II Thou leadest me to pastures vernal, And to the light of endless day. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark Therefore, after the vernal equinox was past, the emperor, having collected a strong body of soldiers, marched forth under the guidance of propitious fortune. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens It is a vernal day, as beautiful as ever dawned. My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field As then, the vernal prime Hourly with ampler respiration drew Delight of purer green from balmier airs: As then the sunshine glittered. Legends of the Saxon Saints It is defined as the time included between two successive passages of the sun through the vernal equinox, hence it is also called the equinoctial year. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture We must dance to the vernal saraband while we can: Spring is so short in this norland country of ours. The Prairie Child He was also implored to hasten the vernal warmth and thereby extinguish the winter fires. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas When the Sun, on his journey northward, reaches the equator, we have the vernal equinox, and at this period of the year the days and nights are of equal length all over the globe. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Hearts, how proud soe'er, Made not that boast—consistency in sin, Though dark and rough accessible to Grace As earth to vernal showers. Legends of the Saxon Saints Most of us call the Crocus a spring flower, yet there are more autumnal than vernal species, but it is as a spring flower that we most value it. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Here are brought together all the quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf sucked the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In So she wrote such stanzas as she remembered perfectly, commencing: "Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass." 'Lizbeth of the Dale During the dreary winter-time the simple wants of the two mountaineers had been supplied by much toil and much privation, so that the return of the vernal season was hailed with joyful acclamation. Harper's Young People, November 25, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly For five seasons I had called these hunting-grounds my own, and during that time had seen perhaps about the same number of specimens of this royal species, always in the course of the vernal migration. Birds in the Bush "Upon Seamander's flowery mead they stood Unnumbered as the vernal leaves and flowers." Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life One is, that the year begins at the conjunction of the sun and the moon which occurs nearest to the vernal equinox. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature They long for a less biting air, for vernal hours in sheltered dells, where without sheaths and unguarded the hearts of flowers lie open to their neighbours and to heaven. Apologia Diffidentis By all that I can observe, I conclude that the vernal season of this part of the Island of Britain, is full fifteen days, if not twenty, earlier than that of Boston. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. The extensive influence of heat upon animal life is evident from its decay and suspension during winter, in certain animals, and from its revival upon the approach and action of the vernal sun. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease They call this autumnal equinox the beginning of the civil year, and the vernal equinox the beginning of the holy year. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood And yet this was only the day of the vernal equinox; it was most extraordinary. The Doomsman O! hast thou seen a vernal Morning bright Gem every bank and trembling leaf with dews, Tinging the green fields with her amber hues, Changing the leaden streams to lines of light? Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace Scattered dwellings nestle in the thick woods, but no regular campong exists in this thinly-peopled spot, a vernal Eden set in the purple sea. Through the Malay Archipelago During the vernal migration, indeed, I have more than once heard it sing in eastern Massachusetts. The Foot-path Way It is safer to follow the divine order, making April the first month, starting with the new moon which is nearest to vernal equinox. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood I have seen that kind of vernal gladness. Waiting for Daylight Winter, cold and pale, Flies from the soft, and violet-mantled Spring, Summer, with sultry breath, absorbs the vernal gale. Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace ‘Fair is the bud his vernal morn brings forth, ‘And fostering gales awhile the nursling fan. The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems Ten or twelve years ago, when I was bird-gazing in Boston, there were sometimes a hundred robins at once about the Common and Garden, in the time of the vernal migration. The Foot-path Way The passers-by stood still and smiled in admiration of its pure vernal freshness. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen I know not, unless it be the influence of the vernal season. Fibble, D.D. The death and resurrection of the Solar Hero at or about the vernal equinox is as wide-spread as his birth at the winter solstice. Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries Fair was the flower, and soft the vernal sky; Elate with hope, we deemed no tempest nigh; When lo! a whirlwind’s instantaneous gust Left all its beauties withering in the dust! The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems A few years of note-taking will put one in possession of the approximate dates of arrival of all our common vernal migrants. The Foot-path Way More liquid than the running brooks, More vernal than the voice of Spring, When Nightingales are in their nooks, And all the leafy thickets ring. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature The Bull then was the spring sign, the Pleiades and ruddy Aldebaran joining their rays with the sun's at the time of the vernal equinox. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy A turkey gobbler, when his vernal wedding dress is complete, is indeed a remarkable 99 sight. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year Fair laugh our vallies in the vernal beams; ‘And mountains rise, and oceans roll between, ‘And all conspire to beautify the scene. The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems No sound of the sylvan solitudes has a more woodsy flavor or is more suggestive of vernal cheer and good will. Our Bird Comrades I believe," he said, mildly, "that we are approaching the vernal equinox. The Desert Fiddler For instance, astrologers say that Aries is a vernal, dry, fiery, masculine, cardinal, equinoctial, diurnal, movable, commanding, eastern, choleric, violent, and quadrupedalian sign. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy Reverence for female dignity, a sentiment never found before in any nation, gave a vernal promise of some higher humanity, on a wider scale than had yet been exhibited. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 But now, with a desperate disagreement just behind them, and the unusual luxury of a taxi just in front, the vernal airs continued blowing in the most springlike manner. Miss Mapp From the time of their vernal arrival they were to be seen in every ramble until they took flight for their breeding haunts in the North. Our Bird Comrades Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and is of long patience, till he receives the autumnal and vernal rain. The New Testament Translated From the Original Greek, With Chronological Arrangement of the Sacred Books, and Improved Divisions of Chapters and Verses. There was not a breath of wind, but the sky was cool, and into it the old trees lifted their branches with an air of youth and vernal strength. The Tragic Bride So shall young Health thy daily walks attend, Weave for thy hoary brow the vernal flower Of cheerfulness, and with his nervous arm Arrest th' inexorable scythe of Time. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Jasper went along singing, for his heart was happy, and he felt the cheerful influence of the vernal air. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk In eastern Kansas and western Missouri they are common, almost abundant, during both the vernal and autumnal migrations, and after you have once cultivated their acquaintance they are likable, if not quite companionable, birds. Our Bird Comrades Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and fresh and clear, thy music doth surpass. Graded Memory Selections Up out of the infinite and sunlit chasm came a mocking, joyous hail—up through the sheer, misty gulf out of vernal depths: Cuck-oo! Barbarians Shakespeare writes in this poem, as if he were of another planet, charming you to gaze on the movements of Venus and Adonis, as you would on the twinkling dances of two vernal butterflies. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher They could see a great feathery space of vernal darkness down over the Hudson at the end of a street. The Job An American Novel Ah! who will paint the Face that smiled When Art was virginal and vernal— The pure Madonna with her Child, Pure as the light, and as eternal! The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly At a later date, however, this mode of determining time was abandoned, and the new year was made directly dependent on the vernal equinox. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs But the Celts placed the vernal equinox on March 25, and the Romans on March 21. A Source Book for Ancient Church History To yon high lands thy glances turn: With pendent fire they flash and burn, Where in their vernal glory blaze Paláśa flowers on leafless sprays. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse But all the while Una steadily kept the conversation to the vernal beauties of Pennsylvania. The Job An American Novel Its music surpasses the delicate sounds of vernal showers on the twinkling grass, the beauty of the rain-awakened flowers, and all that ever was clear and fresh and joyous. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The falling spray my head bedews, As gently as a vernal shower; Or, as the Holy Ghost imbues In consecrated hour, The soul that inly yearns for love, And seeks it from the throne above. Gleams of Sunshine Optimistic Poems “Nothing that is fair can stay But while Death’s sharp scythe is sweeping, We remember ’mid our weeping, That a Father-hand is keeping Every vernal bloom that falleth underneath its chilly sway. St. Winifred's, or The World of School The vernal flush of flower and spray Will burn my very soul away. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse He expected to find here a vulgar and extravagant taste, a vernal art without mind or genius. The Root of Evil Bonaventure Deschamps felt it gnawing and tearing hard and harder within his bosom as he strode on through the wild vernal growth that closed in the view on every side. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana The blackbird lingers by the flowing brook, Or perches proudly on the shock of corn; The lark still hovers round its meadow nook, And soars and sings as on a vernal morn. Gleams of Sunshine Optimistic Poems Journey In the year 1816, two days before the vernal equinox, I sailed from Liverpool for Pernambuco, in the southern hemisphere, on the coast of Brazil. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure The poet no doubt intended to indicate the vernal equinox as the birthday of Ráma. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse To Love all ages lowly bend, But the young unpolluted heart His gusts should fertilize, amend, As vernal storms the fields athwart. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse Here is the sweet-scented vernal grass; taste and see how pleasant it is; it is the grass which, perhaps more than any other, gives that charming odour to the hayfields. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children Burton, here, declares that the autumnal, like the vernal, equinox breeds hot humours and distempers in the blood. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance But when from hibernation we emerge on The vernal prime and things begin to sprout, Our Ulster policy shall also burgeon; With sap of April coursing through our blood We too shall burst in bud. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 The soft vernal influence shed a languid grace over the scene. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War The morning being clear and fine, full of Milton’s “vernal delight and joy,” I determined on a saunter; the inclemency of the weather having, for more than a week, kept me a prisoner at home. The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith The rains which elsewhere had flooded the lowlands here but enlivened the vernal freshness of the scene. Under the Rose The Siamese Twins gave him a good opening about 'bonds eternal' and the 'season vernal' and he didn't do a thing with it. Side Show Studies In the hot lowlands of Louisiana—in the tropical “chapparals” of Mexico—in the snowy regions of Canada—and in the vernal valleys of California. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire There are some very nice springs in Iceland not yet patronised; but although the springs there are hot, the Springs, vernally speaking, are cold. Olla Podrida Happy it was beyond any other time, except perhaps a few vernal days of boyhood, but it was unmarked by any incidents. Julian Home The winter glided imperceptibly away, and as imperceptibly vernal bloom and beauty stole over the face of nature. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel They are raised into the atmosphere probably by whirlwinds which occur during the vernal equinox, which is the dry season, from the valley of the lower Orinoco. A Voyage round the World A book for boys The meadow foxtail and sweet-scented vernal would be left out entirely, and some six or eight pounds added to the Timothy and red clover. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure These two dates are called equinoxes, March 21st being the vernal, and September 21st being the autumnal, equinox. The Land of the Long Night Old Ocean claps his hands, the Desert shouts, And vernal Breezes wafting seraph sounds Melt the prim�val North. Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. And here I dwell with Poesy, my mate, With Erato and all her vernal sighs, Great Clio with her victories elate, Or pale Urania's deep and starry eyes. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries I have known Rose for hardly three months; her picture is still vernal in my heart; nothing can prevent its colours from being radiant with freshness, radiant with vigour, radiant with sunshine. The Choice of Life And as a poppy, which in the garden is weighed down with fruit and vernal showers, droops its head to one side, so did his head incline aside, depressed by the helmet. The Iliad of Homer (1873) It will thus be seen that from the autumnal to the vernal equinox the North Pole is in darkness and has a night of six months' duration, during which time the sun is not seen. The Land of the Long Night These were the red letter days in her vernal calendar, and were inescapable outings, for her memory was tenacious. A Daughter of the Middle Border The spring, with all its blossoms and its delicate newness of life, came among them; the Indians assembled to celebrate their vernal feast from all the country round. The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends The withered goldenrod and gaunt mullein stalks and dead asters by the wayside almost seemed to bloom again, while the winter wheat gave an actual vernal touch. The Long Roll In Rājputāna Gauri is worshipped as the corn goddess at the Gangore festival about the time of the vernal equinox, especially by women. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II Yet all its vernal beauty seemed but as a portal to the inner shrine, the sanctuary of Southern hospitality. St. Cuthbert's I have always tried not to ossify, keeping in view a possible serene time to come, when I might put forth blossoms in this vernal fashion that tempts my middle-aged fancy. The Daughters of Danaus Elsewhere she sought for lore and art, But hither came for vernal joy: Nor was this all: she smote the heart And woke the hero in the boy. Ionica The elections were held in beautiful, vernal groves. The Long Roll Enchanter, 'gainst the evening star Singing to worlds where dreamers are, That makes upon the leafless bough A solitary vernal vow— Sing, lyric soul! within thy song The love that lures the rose along! A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry The vernal equinox in the north, generally takes place while the ground is covered with snow, and winter still wears a polar aspect. The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians The old Story, whereof you have alreadie seen many Parcels; but, you know, my Vein ne'er flows so happily as from the autumnal to the vernal Equinox. Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary They were never old, but were vernal in spirit to the last, and, for aught that appears to the contrary, generous livers, not "acid ghouls" or bran-eating valetudinarians. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 His voice, which is one of the earliest to be heard in the spring, is associated with the early flowers and with all pleasant vernal influences. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 In plain words, Spring here indeed seems to hold her throne, and to reign in all that vernal sweetness and loveliness which is imputed to her by the poets. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 The empty beds of rivers fill again; Trees leafless now renew their vernal bloom; Returning moons their lustrous phase resume; But man a second youth expects in vain.* Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources Neither was it "sowed in sunshine," nor was it "in vernal breezes and gentle rains that it fixed its roots, and grew and strengthened." The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 We now begin to expect our vernal migration of ring-ousels every week. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Newborn sunbeams kiss the turrets Of the minster high, All the beauties of the morning,— Grey at first, then golden dreaming,— Deck the vernal sky. Ely Cathedral Then Homer in the Odyssey, through Pope's paraphrase: 'Sad Philomel, in bowery shades unseen, To vernal airs attunes her varied strains.' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852 As far and wide the vernal breeze Sweet odours waft from blooming trees, So, too, the grateful savour spreads To distant lands of virtuous deeds. Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources The vernal equinox was a period of much significance. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria But with the returning spring the unused walks again are paced, and the dry keels launched into the vernal waters. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Disease around her couch Long held a tyrant sway, Till vanished from her cheek, the rose, And the fair flesh like vernal snows Wasted away. Man of Uz, and Other Poems When first I beheld your noble band Pounce from rock and lairs vernal, My soul and hair were lifted With admiration and amazement. Shakspere, Personal Recollections Spring. 1When verdure clothes the fertile vale, And blossoms deck the spray, And fragrance breathes in every gale, How sweet the vernal day! 2Hark! how the feathered warblers sing! Hymns for Christian Devotion Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination Nothing could be more beautiful, more glorious, than the valley in its vernal garniture. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author This error, becoming daily more sensible, would have occasioned the autumnal equinox to have at length fallen on the day reckoned the solstice, and in process of time, on that held for the vernal equinox. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March The sun, after entering the sign Aries and passing through one eighth of it, determines the vernal equinox. The Ten Books on Architecture The voice of Nature never lies, Presents to all her varied skies, And wraps within her vernal breast The dust of man in pulseless rest. Shakspere, Personal Recollections Sometimes, out of the vernally blue heaven, something falls on me like a tender glance, an anticipation. Strife and Peace Thus the spring commences with the vernal equinox, and the autumn with the autumnal. Recollections of Europe The ancients began the year, some from the autumnal, others from the vernal equinox. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Therefore Christ ought to have suffered about the time of the summer solstice rather than about the vernal equinox. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition IN the vernal season the lectures and theaters were dropped for neighborhood excursions of which the Buchers, like all German families, were extremely fond. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Heaven has strewn thoughts o'er the sweet vernal dale, These on the hearts of the flowers bestowing, Therefore, when open the chalices glowing, Whispers each petal a secret tale. Strife and Peace Then all the earth wore a vernal look, and the ringing sky said, "Winter is over and gone." Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 I look on the vernal day and say with poor Fergusson— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" He crept out into the sunshine again, basking in the vernal warmth with a sense of luxury, and entering into the gossip of the ditchers with an unwonted mental activity and garrulity. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee The past looks on me from thy mournful eye; The beauty of our free and vernal days; Our communings with sea, and hill, and sky— O, take that bright world from my spirit-gaze. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants The pale Mrs. Astrid seemed to raise herself out of her gloomy trance, and to imbibe new vigour of life from the fresh vernal air. Strife and Peace Sweet nurslings of the vernal skies, Bathed in soft airs, and fed with dew, What more than magic in you lies To fill the heart's fond view? Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 By this regulation the vernal equinox which then happened on the 11th of March was restored to the 21st. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" And, certainly, no composer, Mozart alone excepted, has discovered such naïvely and innocently joyous themes as those that fill the close of the sonata and the symphonic variations with delicious vernal sunshine. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Sun changes his place in the Zodiac at each vernal equinox, 449-m. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry At times, feelings arise in me like vernal gales. Strife and Peace The effusive south Warms the wide air, and o'er the void of heaven Breathes the big clouds with vernal showers distent. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 In mossy fields, 'mong refuse of bushes, With rose-tinted lips, like herald of morn, With but a leaf to conceal secret blushes, Earth's first vernal offspring is sweetly born. Our Profession and Other Poems If he could not paint the spring in music, he could at least embroider the score of "Sniegourochka" delightfully with birdcalls and all manner of vernal fancies. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers The reverence paid to Taurus continued long after, by the precession of the Equinoxes, the colure of the vernal equinox had come to pass through Aries. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The powdered root of the Ribwort Plantain is of use for curing vernal ague, a dessertspoonful being given for a dose, two or three times in a day. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Earliest to salute the vernal rainbow, with a glow of green gentle as its own, is the lake-loving Alder, whose home, too, is by the flowings of all the streams. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 The analogy of nature, as seen in the vernal flowers springing up after the desolation of winter, of the sapling sprouting from the fallen trunk, of life everywhere rising from death, suggests such a view. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America For the sound of journeying water is never out of your ears; the feeling of the moist, the fresh, the vernal, is never out of your heart. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Like unto the cloud of vernal shower, they must transform the black soil into the rose garden and orchard. Tablets of the Divine Plan Let us not, on this day of reunion, shut out the vernal downpour of blessings from on high. Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Just as all seasons of spring are essentially one as to newness of life, vernal showers and beauty, so the essence of the mission and accomplishment of all the Prophets is one and the same. The Promulgation of Universal Peace In contrast to this, so much the more positive was their association of the THUNDER-STORM as that which brings both warmth and rain with the renewed vernal life of vegetation. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America The Revelation of the Báb may be likened to the sun, its station corresponding to the first sign of the Zodiac—the sign Aries—which the sun enters at the vernal equinox. God Passes By Regarding Naw-Rúz: If the vernal equinox falls on the 21st of March before sunset, it is celebrated on that day. Directives from the Guardian Take, again, these two lines: "Forget the shining of the stars, forget The vernal visitation of the rose." Primavera Poems by Four Authors For the bounty of the cloud, the effulgence and heat of the sun and the breath of the vernal zephyrs can transform the tiny seed and develop it into a mighty tree. The Promulgation of Universal Peace Than last year's vernal season 'Tis lovelier by far; This earth was never so enchanting Nor half so bright before— But so I've rhapsodized, in springtime, For forty years or more. Poems Vol. IV A period of prodigious activity ensued which, in its repercussions, outshone the vernal years of Bahá’u’lláh’s ministry. God Passes By And why wonder at this when you feel that you have the divine vernal sun for a companion, and on the right, whenever you turn to the sea, its flaming golden waves. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two Fear not; but still indulge thy wanton hours, And strew thy wint'ry path with vernal flowers. The First of April Or, The Triumphs of Folly: A Poem Dedicated to a Celebrated Duchess. By the author of The Diaboliad. The vernal shower has descended from the cloud of divine mercy; the life-giving breeze of the Holy Spirit is wafting the perfume of blossoms. The Promulgation of Universal Peace In all such passages there is the genuine note of the vernal joy which stirs naturally in the blood of all men who are men. Platform Monologues Of those with whom we played upon the lawn 20 Of early life, in the fresh morning played; Alas! how many, since that vernal dawn, Like thee, poor Russell, 'neath the turf are laid! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan With this he determined the height of the sun, moon and stars, and their deviation from the vernal point. The Age of the Reformation After the long season of strife and discontent this is one of the many signs which mark the vernal equinox, and foretell the coming summer. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O When the phenomenal sun appears from the vernal point of dawning in the zodiac, a wondrous and vibrant commotion is set up in the body of the earthly world. The Promulgation of Universal Peace No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May; No Zephyr fondly soothes the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest. Early Reviews of English Poets |
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