| 单词 | weathercock |
| 例句 | There was a gust of wind, then, so strong that it rattled the windows of the village, and whirled and spun the weathercocks until they could not tell north from west or south from east. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z There was a flagstaff in the garden, and on the roof was a gilt weathercock shaped like a telescope. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z He looked down towards Admiral Boom’s house where the telescope weathercock swung. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z The weathercock at sunset Would lose the slanted ray,And I would climb the beacon That looked to Wales away And saw the last of day. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z No matter where we find ourselves in these stories, the author’s mind, and thus the reader’s, seems turned like a weathercock toward Homewood. John Edgar Wideman’s Stories Vividly Evoke Life in Pittsburgh and Many Other Places 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z The bronze weathercock tumbled, taking with it three relics sealed inside in 1935. Shock, sadness, but no panic: Minutes that saved Notre Dame 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z What makes this ten times worse than otherwise it would be, we are never constant to one dress, but are as fickle and uncertain as weathercocks—or the men that preach under them. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z When two flints had come into collision, what results could be expected?—especially as neither one nor the other remained steady to his first terms, but changed every day like a weathercock. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z In all matters connected with the Company he had leant on Ovington, and deprived of his stay, he wavered, turning like a weathercock in the wind, making no progress. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Paris was a penful of sheep now distracted by too many shepherds--a weathercock its most fitting symbol. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z His domineering airs had in the intervening time coerced to his own way of thinking a host of weathercock viceroys, had raised him to the woolsack, rendered him supreme in the law courts. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z And then she bethought her, that he was no weathercock, for he had come again! Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z One might get a line out of that, by the way—something about a weathercock and a church steeple. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z J. M. Garrison was a perfect weathercock, and none could tell from his speeches or actions what his vote would be. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information 2012-01-20T03:00:11.607Z Transcendentalism was excellent material for weathercocks, but it had to be toughened by adulteration with baser metal before it supplied any solid foundation for a new temple. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z At its summit is a weathercock which, when taken down for regilding in 1884, was found to contain the following triplet— I never crow, But stand to show Where winds do blow. Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z Too often the heart of a woman seems but a weathercock upon a steeple, whirled about in every wind that blows; so variable is woman's heart, and more changeable than any wind. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z The golden fox on the stable weathercock was not at peace for a moment, facing all the southern points of the compass as if they were hounds that held it at bay. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z It chanced that the weathercock of his church had become loose, and the masons rather shrank from the risk of going up to secure it. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z "A weathercock" was the little corporal's sarcastic reply. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z The tops of steeples rise above the flood, with men and women perching on their weathercocks—— Sir Trem. Three Hours after Marriage 2011-10-10T02:00:20.823Z They were accordingly symbolized by a number of weathercocks proportioned to the number of their political conversions, Talleyrand leading the procession, with not less than seven to his credit. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z Let us suppose that two people are using them to look at an arrow on a weathercock a long distance off. Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science 2011-10-03T02:00:33.003Z The pointed turrets of the castle are all painted red, and adorned with fantastic weathercocks. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z You are more like the belfry than the weathercock, since, as I see, you have sparrows in your head. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z The weathercock turns round, the dust in the streets is whirled up in eddies, and here and there rises in clouds to the house-tops. Popular Books on Natural Science For Practical Use in Every Household, for Readers of All Classes 2011-08-29T02:01:12.927Z When the king awoke the following morning, he looked out of the window as usual, and there the castle was standing as before, with its weathercocks gleaming handsomely in the sunlight. The Swedish Fairy Book 2011-08-26T02:00:23.380Z I'm afraid Laurie is hardly grown up enough for Meg, and altogether too much of a weathercock, just now, for any one to depend on. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z The tarnished weathercock above revolves so stiffly as to be heedless of the light air,—only facing a strong breeze. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Jumping out of bed very early every morning, during the season of the May-fly, to look at a weathercock opposite to your window, and always finding the wind either in the north or east. Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters also, Miseries of Fishing 2011-07-24T02:00:08.580Z A walk of two miles was before him, but he did not hurry himself after he had lost sight of the spinsters and the church weathercock. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z Sir Lav� cast an inquiring look at the weathercock over the castle-gate, and then approached the two gentlemen, without disturbing their conversation. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z Then came two hours of suspense, during which she vibrated from parlor to porch, while public opinion varied like the weathercock. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z It was nothing like getting up to oil the weathercock after all.” Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon 2011-07-07T02:00:30.453Z As some rusty old weathercock will not condescend to move for anything less than a gale of wind, so it took a panic to rouse up this wealthy and easy-going old gentleman. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z In the Middle Ages the weathercock became the usual adornment of church steeples. The Mentor: The Weather Serial Number 110; 1 July, 1916 2011-06-09T02:00:19.213Z To our couple the weathercock was really a funeral standard. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z Now Mr. Laurence is looking up at the sky, and the weathercock; I wish he would go, too. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z At all events, the weathercock was oiled, and as I said over and over again to Joey, ‘if Parson didn’t oil that weathercock, who did?’ Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon 2011-07-07T02:00:30.453Z There was nothing in common between the fierce and fiery descendant of the Vikings, Sigurd, and this weathercock of princely descent. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z The style is that which prevailed in the reign of Edward II., and is harmonious throughout, from weathercock to door-sill. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Two of the gang went up to the belfry, the steeple of which was adorned with a gilt weathercock, according to custom. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z At the first coup d'œil, the roofs and chimneys of houses, with all their appurtenances of patent smoke-curers, weathercocks, and lightning conductors; among them domes and spires, showing it a town with several churches. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z Our window looks over house-tops and Cliffs onto the Sea, so that when the Ships sail past the Cottage chimneys you may take them for weathercocks. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Like most men, he will probably cool off in time; but he’s no weathercock, and one could hardly help believing in his honesty.” A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z It was not a flat, moveable weathercock, but a fixed, solid figure, covered with tin. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z At the first coup d’oeil, the roofs and chimneys of houses, with all their appurtenances of patent smoke-curers, weathercocks, and lightning conductors; among them domes and spires, showing it a town with several churches. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z It is a party of weathercocks, and consequently each one must turn his back upon the wind, to show which way it blows. The Boys' And Girls' Library 2011-02-06T03:01:02.953Z He can turn me around like a weathercock. The Carleton Case 2011-01-24T03:00:17.240Z On their roofs are fantastic weathercocks, and in front of them small gardens, in which box-trees flourish, cut into shapes. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z It may be questioned if the cross, which occupied the place that, according to provincial orthodoxy, a weathercock should have adorned, or Mr. Warren's surplice, was one-half as offensive. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z Belle seemed to get over her hurry and to find time for occasional relaxation, but one never knew in what mood he might find her, for the weathercock was not more changeable than she. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z First Mason: So do we up here When the weathercock points west And the look-off's clear. The Two Twilights 2010-12-25T03:00:12.393Z Presently they heard a shout, and looking up, they saw Sir Archibald standing on the cairn in which the staff of the weathercock was fixed, and waving his travelling-cap. Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z An iron weathercock perched on the curling shingle roof seemed to gaze saucily down at the girls. Hoofbeats on the Turnpike 2010-12-20T17:11:45.463Z The building was surmounted by a weathercock in the form of a bronze Triton; it contained a water-clock to record the time when the sun was not shining. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" They change their opinions with almost every change in the position of the weathercock. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician Of the gilt weathercock itself nothing remained save the butt. Deep Moat Grange "And up there is the hut with the weathercock," her father went on. Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z The weathercock sticks at the north, and old Ben says there's not a chance of a change till the new moon. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories The political life of England, from the death of Anne to the reign of George the Third, was a perpetual turning of the weathercock. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 It was a curious thing that he walked straight in the face of the soft wind that came down from the snow fields, and yet there wasn't a weathercock to be seen anywhere. The Voice of the Pack Spires end usually in a boss or finial, surmounted by a weathercock. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance My dear girl, I'm much too much of a weathercock, or if you insist on me being heavy, let's say a pendulum. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Nearer to the roof, the castle wore a gayer aspect the copper-plates about the gables shone mildly in the moonbeams, and the numerous chimney tops with weathercocks and flagstaffs, seemed all spangled over with silver. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales One end was tied fast to an old mast that now bore a weathercock, and the other was fastened to a ring in a piece of rock, near by. Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves The weathercock turned again and indicated fair weather. On the Heights A Novel Our evening gilders must be more skillful than those who flashed and daubed away in the morning of life, and gilt with any tinsel the weathercock for the morning sun. Maria Edgeworth When I reached the street I hurried to the cars, thinking that la donna may be mobile, but that as a weathercock Gordon was the limit. A Top-Floor Idyl He seldom fails to give you a reason, though it is often of the Wordsworthian type,— "At Kilve there was no weathercock, And that's the reason why." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 Paulet was as obedient to the prevailing wind as a weathercock; Wriothesley was an obsequious, greedy sycophant; Paget a humble official with little influence, and the rest were nonentities. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History But now-- If there had been a weathercock to mark the feelings of men, it would have turned quite suddenly. On the Heights A Novel Your choice changes as your own humour or the weathercock turns. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 The weathercock on the house-top creaked as he was whirled about, and the verandahs had to be closed, and the noise was like a prolonged thunder peal. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses The wind blew down with a crash the partition between the two yards, and the tiles came tumbling from the roof, but the weathercock stood firm. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series I only left his side a moment before to look at the weathercock, and he stood alone just where I left him as I turned back. Maid Sally One still supports a weathercock in the churchyard at Pendleton, Manchester; and in Derbyshire, a few years ago, several were to be seen standing on some of the village greens. Folk-lore of Shakespeare What weathercock can turn with such tempers as these! An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Though It Be of His Worst Enemies. Being A True Account of His Conduct in Public Affairs. As Mother Goose finished her little verse, the gander alighted on the roof of a big red barn on which a weathercock sedately turned this way and that in the early morning breeze. The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Jr. They somewhat resembled weathercocks, but were fat and stupid and thought only of stuffing themselves with food. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series Intended to symbolize Faith, the name, a diminutive of Giralda, or weathercock, is most inappropriate. Cathedrals of Spain The wife trembled, the husband groaned, the tempest outside shook the window-panes, the weathercocks creaked on the roof, the owls hooted in the lofts, and so the night wore on. Pretty Michal The coaxing weathercock now had a green arm around the neck of the man in the long, drab coat. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl "Well," answered the weathercock, "I didn't crow before day, so kindly give me a gold comb and silver wings." The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Jr. The birds of passage often paid a visit to the weathercock and told him tales of foreign lands, of large flocks passing through the air, and of encounters with robbers and birds of prey. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series It was some time after the Willenhall pride had been thus lowered that the old weathercock was accidentally found by some miners who were re-opening an old coal pit which lay between the rival townships. The Annals of Willenhall Many a shrewd old farmer looks upon the milky way as a kind of weathercock, and will tell you that the way it points at night indicates the direction of the wind the following day. A Year in the Fields With a veering laugh the weathercock was here bent forward, striving to catch some brazen glimpse of a winking profile in the polished brass of the spectroscope. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl "And who will bring them?" asked the weathercock, for he was very vain, and is sometimes called a weather-vane, perhaps for that reason. The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Jr. They clucked and they chirped so that the weathercock heard it; he had heard it all, but had not stirred. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series Her moods changed as rapidly as a weathercock before a thunderstorm. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers He is an oscillator, a pendulum, a wave of the sea, a weathercock. Talkers With Illustrations Well! nickum, or not!” the girl was a rosy weathercock again. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl "More poetry from Mother Goose," sighed the weathercock. The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Jr. "It's all stupid stuff," said a voice within the weathercock. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series This was enlarged, still preserving the quaint Dutch characteristics; it acquired a tower and a whimsical weathercock, the delight of the owner, and became one of the most snug and picturesque residences on the river. Home Life of Great Authors His tongue, like the point of a weathercock, veers round to face the sentiment or fact from whatever quarter it may come. Talkers With Illustrations The statue of Fortune, forming the weathercock, standing on the world, is alike characteristic of the conceits of the time, and of the hopes and principles of the last days of Venice. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) The weathercock did not reply, and the gander did not wait, but flew away with his two passengers safely sitting on his back. The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Jr. "Besides," said the weathercock, "they are very tiresome things to converse with." Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series It is recorded that Spurgeon once saw a weathercock with the words on it, “God is love.” The Prayers of St. Paul "What sort of a blundering weathercock then is he?" the young man went on in his wonder. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II Where the will remains passive, the mind, like an idle weathercock, turns to every puff of suggestion, and the senses, born new from sickness, have the freshness and delicacy of a child's. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 Moreover, the little schooner which acts as weathercock on one of the gables, and is now heading due west, has a new topsail. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index These were very interesting when heard for the first time, but the weathercock knew the birds always repeated themselves, and that made it tedious to listen. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series The road turned away and olive trees hid the weathercock. Rosinante to the Road Again The weathercock and the moon sit still, whatever happens. Frances Kane's Fortune We are assured that people in England never regarded the weathercocks and the direction of the smoke and of the clouds with more painful anxiety than at that time. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) The cottage on the rock was even smaller than the other; it had a wooden bolt instead of an iron lock to the door, a stone hearth, a flagstaff, and a weathercock on the roof. The Lilac Fairy Book The weathercock was what is called "lofty," and that quality alone would have made him interesting in the eyes of the Cucumber, had she known it. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series First above the bulge of reddish saffron striped with dark of a plowed field they saw a weathercock, then under it the slate cap of a tower. Rosinante to the Road Again Alas! must we contrast thee with the weathercock of the rhyming folk, bowing to kings, protector, lords, and all that could pay golden coin for his poesy? The Buccaneer A Tale The weathercock of those days is no more, or we might measure the throw. Highways and Byways in Surrey The summer night was as dark as if it had been October, the weathercock creaked, and the storm was raging in every direction. The Lilac Fairy Book With that, the weathercock broke off and fell into the yard. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series They are nothing but the weathercocks, and society is the wind. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Underneath her, the village square was empty; the stones of the pavement glittered, the weathercocks on the houses were motionless. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Each man is set to save his skin and his goods—and you are such a weathercock that I should never blow you to a firm quarter. The Fifth Queen Crowned The front of his houses always had a hard, stubborn expression, with stiff, French lines, low, squat roofs, and fat, pudding-like chimneys surmounted with black cowls and squeaking weathercocks. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories The storm swept over the town, carrying plenty of chimneys with it, and more than one proud weathercock on a church tower had to bow, and has never got over it from that time. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen I twirled the weathercock round on the summit of the tower, and it creaked like the snoring of the warder, but no warder was there; only mice and rats were there. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales You can confess to me that you will change like a weathercock;—be his one day, and then mine, and his again the next! The Vicar of Bullhampton I turned the weathercock above the tower—it sounded like a watchman snoring inside the tower; but no watchman was there—it was only kept by rats and mice. The Sand-Hills of Jutland When this you see remember me And keep me in your mind, And be not like a weathercock That turns at every wind. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework The weathercock flew to the opposite house, where he perched, looking the picture of malice—so the neighbors said. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The wind had blown down the plank, but the storm had passed over. the weathercock. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Then I take a turn over the city, gossip with the weathercocks, pay my compliments to the bells, inspect the fire-alarm, and pick up information by listening at the telegraph wires. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag Nor can one be angry with, or despise Miss Baker for this weathercock aptitude. The Bertrams It is a great comfort to those who gamble away their substance in the Board of Trade to reflect that the weathercock that surmounts its tower is the biggest ever seen by human eye. American Sketches 1908 The family is extinct, the house has been pulled down, and where it stood is now the stately poultry-house, with gilded weathercocks, and the old Poultry Meg. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Mary's procession to the Abbey is signalised by the exploits of a Dutchman, who sat astride on the weathercock of St. Paul's five hundred feet in the air, as the Queen passed. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) A weathercock and two towers visible amid the trees marked the site of the town. Marguerite A new tower had been added, and a weathercock, which last gave an aspect of intense respectability to the place. Jack 1877 A richly-embroidered Genoa silk waistcoat and amber-coloured velvet coat glittered in the declining sun, like the church weathercock perched just above him at a short distance from the house. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Many a time I got up in the night and looked if the weathercock had turned; it turned often, but you did not return. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen My dear Dolly, what a weathercock you are! Comedies of Courtship The clashing and want of ensemble was speedily obvious and detrimental; our readers became perfect weathercocks, and could not reconcile themselves to themselves from day to day. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852 Of course I know you are as changeable as a weathercock, Manuela. Rita And now the rosy blush of morn began to mantle in the east, and soon the rising sun, emerging from amid golden and purple clouds, shed his blithesome rays on the tin weathercocks of Communipaw. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 We are like weathercocks, and have no fixed point, but can be turned by a passing breath. A Girl of the Commune “I am afraid you will have to get Paxton to put up a weathercock for you on his barn, so that you may look in the opposite direction for the wind.” Deerbrook I had a chestnut filly one time—a neat little tit in her way—but she'd kick the weathercock off the top of the church steeple whenever she was a bit fresh. The Northern Iron A weathercock, that had once been gilded, 12stood out black against the evening sky. The Dew of Their Youth In spite of all the veerings and weathercock variations of his political life, Regato was at heart a Liberal. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 The Chancellorship of the Exchequer was given to a politician with a passion for popularity that made him as steadfast as a weathercock, Charles Townshend. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III Well, well," Mr. Lane said, whirling, as paternal weathercocks will, to another point of the compass, "never mind, my boy. The Folly Of Eustace 1896 The sign-board was an interesting survival of feudal times, and with its old-time carved and forged companions, such as vanes and weathercocks, doorknockers and figureheads, formed a picturesque element of decoration and symbolism. Home Life in Colonial Days So I said at once that whether she was behind the door or sitting on the weathercock at Marnhoul Tower would make no difference if the people were enemies and once got in. The Dew of Their Youth We say “Fashion that fluctuating lady,” alluding to the ebbing and flowing of the tide—and “Fashion that weathercock,” implying that she veers about with every puff of wind. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 Rubbing his eyes, he told her to go and look at the weathercock. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts And yet withal they shot the weathercock, just Because 'twas he crowed out of tune, they said: So now the copper weathercock is dead. Poems But his giving her his hand with a gentle pressure, and his manifest agitation, rather won her; and, as uneducated women are your true weathercocks, she went about directly. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 "Sure there's a weathercock in the family," said the voice in the crowd. Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes “Ah; an’ if ’e could also be draw’d and quartered,” added Bob, “and ’ave the bits stuck on the weathercocks of Saint Paul’s, or atop of Temple Bar, it would serve ’im right.” Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade The weathercock on the north end was put up by order of James II., so that he might see whether the wind was for or against the dreaded Dutch fleet. Westminster The Fascination of London There was no wind to trouble the weathercocks. Poems I should think I will, and bore you about all my new weathercock schemes. The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias What is all this about?" she exclaimed, with an air of authority; "though my weathercock tells me the wind is nor'west, I did not expect such a storm. Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes By degrees, though, the mental wind changed the course of that peculiar weathercock, one’s mind, and I felt better. Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea “Why, I see him striddling the ridge of the old stable, with his back to the weathercock, only yesterday.” Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel Master Marlowe hath too deep a reading i' the books of nature to nail his heart upon a gilded weathercock. The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) Better be a weathercock and change about, than be always sticking fast. The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias "Hold your prate, old Growly," said Ratty; "and why don't you mend the weathercock?" Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes The decorations are infinitely beneath contempt; painted weathercocks and copper turrets, and even the paint apparently as ancient as the chateau. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 From spire and barn, looked westerly The patient weathercocks; But even the birches on the hill 15 Stood motionless as rocks. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year “But we don’t know yet who this old weathercock is,” cried Whipcord, turning again to my uncle. My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life We shall, however, probably soon know; and when I do, I will send off this, but not before, lest the weathercock should veer once more from the North. Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 Now it shot out in a straight line from the gilded beak of the weathercock, now veered about, or declined from the vane. Round About a Great Estate The other saying is, "Look at the weathercock on St. Thomas's day at twelve o'clock, and see which way the wind is, and there it will stick for the next quarter," that is, three months. Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. They were, in fact, clasped around the leg of the weathercock. The Adventures of Harry Revel The weathercock would suit him as well as Vendôme," I said a little bitterly; "but it is good news that even for the moment the new faith is in favour. Orrain A Romance It sounds unexciting when written, but there I was, astride my house, up among the vents and exhausts of my former cloistered life, my head outspinning the weathercock. Journeys to Bagdad The king is a weathercock, and goes whichever way the wind blows, monsieur--today he is with the Admiral, tomorrow he may be with the Guises. Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS He looked up as his friend advanced; and Captain Jemmy was forced to regard the weathercock on the roof for a minute or so to make sure of the quarter in which the wind lay. The Blue Pavilions I saw the slates at the foot of the weathercock, that they were thinly edged and of light scantling. The Adventures of Harry Revel This old church with its tower, yellow spire, old clock and weathercock, seems to me as I look back on it to have been a very attractive piece of architecture. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 For the same reason the weathercock on a church steeple is to be judged by a higher standard than the one over a carpenter's shop or the ordinary dwelling. The Patient Observer And His Friends Graham, at least, was stanch and steadfast, not a weathercock like Cutler. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier The little hunchback took a pull, answered "No" as he set down the tankard, and looked up at the weathercock overhead. The Blue Pavilions I remember observing, on our way, the dazzling brilliance of its weathercock. The Adventures of Harry Revel Often enough our vagrant eyes wandered that way, but not that we cared for green slopes or colonial church or venerable weathercock. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. All winter there were rumblings deep and continual in the political sky—sometimes the sun broke out, and people said that it was going to clear; but usually the weathercocks predicted a long, southerly storm. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy A house built out of funny little Dutch bricks, with gables whose sides looked like stair-cases, and a roof of red tiles with more weathercocks and chimneys sticking out of it than you could count. Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Owing to our respect for Mary's white hairs, the dinner-hour was as changeable as a weathercock. At Home with the Jardines My first glance was upwards at the cold fleecy clouds, which as by some optical delusion appeared to stand still, while the steeple, the weathercock, and our two selves were carried swiftly along. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Michael: I’d as soon argue with a weathercock As with a woman ... Krindlesyke "I don't feel sure about anything," replied the weathercock. The Cruise of the Noah's Ark Upon its top swung a gilded weathercock; while about a portion of its base stood a maze of scaffolding, the façade of the building having during the last few months been under repair. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties "The wind is in the north," said Colline, gravely, pointing to a weathercock on a neighboring roof. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter The noise of a cannon is not necessary to hinder its thoughts; it needs only the creaking of a weathercock or a pulley. Pascal's Pensées But once, on regaining the open, some one noticed that a weathercock had been struck off one of the gables. "Contemptible", by "Casualty" "I used to be a jolly weathercock, but now, with all this water around, I feel more like a lighthouse." The Cruise of the Noah's Ark If Jean's mother had lived I should not have been such a weathercock. The Tin Soldier "Gentlemen," exclaimed Colline, "notice, I beg of you, that the weathercock has gone round to the south, we shall breakfast." Bohemians of the Latin Quarter "Not I," growled Barlowe, and Armadas laughed, "My Lord, do you think so ill of us as to deem us weathercocks in the wind?" Days of the Discoverers The midsummer sun was already warm on the roofs and weathercocks of Milby. Scenes of Clerical Life Even the weathercock, I think, tucked his head under his gilt wings and snored! The Cruise of the Noah's Ark It was in vain that one party objected to the weathercock politics of Talleyrand. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte Although the promise made to George on the haymow was faithfully kept, he could no more avoid getting into mischief than a weathercock can keep from turning when the wind blows. Ole Mammy's Torment I knew that he was selfish, without any affection, unreliable, full of whims, turning like a weathercock with every wind that blows, and caring for nothing in the world except gambling and old Dresden china. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 The spirit of the Foreign Office is like a weathercock on wings; we are a mere servilage to the uncertain changes and caprices of those who may chance to be its Chief.' The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth Noah the whereabouts of the Ark. He didn't seem to mind the storm, for a weathercock is used to all sorts of weather and knows just from what quarter the wind is blowing, you know. The Cruise of the Noah's Ark I felt affronted for the huge weathercock, reclining sulkily against a fence, no more to point his beak to the east with obstinate preference. Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse Life was quick in his sinews, his brain was a weathercock, his strength was tireless. The Half-Hearted Its figure is a cube, with a roof rising from all sides to a point, and surmounted by a wooden weathercock, which somewhat resembles a fish and somewhat a fowl. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader As happened over the Land Act, his weathercock failed to point in the right direction. Town Life in Australia And just then the wind came in a sudden gust and the weathercock flew around to face it. The Cruise of the Noah's Ark The weathercock and moon sit still, whatever happens. Melchior's Dream and Other Tales The wide rooms of the Hall were her spacious skirts, bedecked with the long glitter of the glass-houses; her head reached the roof and wore the weathercock as a feather in her bonnet. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes The Tower of the Winds, erected by Andronicus Cyrrhestes about B. C. 100, contained a weathercock, a sun dial, and a water clock. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Well, then, what a veering weathercock am I, to write so and now, so! The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Thank you, I think I will," replied the weathercock, hopping nimbly on to the flagpole of the Ark. "I shall feel more at home here now that the green meadows have turned into an ocean. The Cruise of the Noah's Ark "So there is," said Bully Tom, in a tone of polite assent; "and there's a weathercock on the church-steeple but I never heard of either of 'em coming down to help a body, whatever happened." Melchior's Dream and Other Tales Do you think I am a weathercock, to change with every wind? The Hoyden The race is not extinct, but, as of old, brings forth its "winds of doctrine" by which the weathercock heads among us are much exercised. American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology It was just making himself cheap, dangling after a woman who was perched up on herself like a weathercock. The Judge The weathercock, on seeing the dove perched on the little girl's shoulder, called out politely, "Good evening, ladies." The Cruise of the Noah's Ark And Pa,' I says, as bold and stuck-up as a brass weathercock on a new church, 'Pa! The Indiscreet Letter We and the Directory know that the author, whatever changes his works seemed made to indicate, like a weathercock grown rusty, remains just where he was in the last week of last October. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) You fly to the weathercock And when you hear it crow You fold your wings and clutch your things, And then you let go! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 13, 1917 So they went along and along till they had come so near to the King's house that they could see the high roofs and the weathercocks over the crest of the next hill. Pepper & Salt or, Seasoning for Young Folk "What are you talking about down there?" asked the weathercock. The Cruise of the Noah's Ark She recalled the muttered insinuations of fraudulent political stratagems, of what Benham had called the Governor's weathercock principles. One Man in His Time The poor people somehow connected heaven with the stars, and Mr. Armstrong never undeceived them, so that they saw nothing improper in the big telescope under the weathercock. Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers There too the dove-cot stood, with its meek and innocent inmates 100 Murmuring ever of love; while above in the variant breezes Numberless noisy weathercocks rattled and sang of mutation. Evangeline with Notes and Plan of Study The only friend I have in your family is Owen, except, perhaps, Netta, who is turned by one and the other of you, like a weathercock by the winds.' Gladys, the Reaper You'd be, too," answered the weathercock, "if you were in the habit of having the winds tell you each day what was going on. The Cruise of the Noah's Ark The man of Langres has a head on his shoulders like the weathercock at the top of the church spire. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) In November 1851 the weathercock on the spire of the church was blown off, and in the following year it was replaced. The Evolution of an English Town It is a remarkable fact that the weathercocks have recently changed their quarters, and have left the West in favour of the East: a predilection of astounding vulgarity. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841 The apathy of the weathercock that went on whirling about as if nothing had happened, is in the highest degree disgusting, and we can scarcely regret the fate of such an unfeeling animal. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, This is the song the weathercock sang early the next morning. The Cruise of the Noah's Ark You are changeful and coy and capricious, A weathercock easily blown; But when shall I hear the delicious One word that proclaims you my own? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 8, 1891 You can tell by the four spikes an' the weathercock; like-wise by the tombstones. Hocken and Hunken Never were the weathercocks watched more anxiously than they were by the officers and men of the Twenty-eighth for the next fortnight. One of the 28th A Tale of Waterloo The reporters mark as a miracle the extraordinary fact, that during the whole time of the fire, the weathercock continued to vary with the wind. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, And after that Marjorie went up on deck, where the weathercock was sitting on the flagpole in the moonlight. The Cruise of the Noah's Ark Meanwhile, high above the angry sea, the chair and its cargo of black women would be twirling like a weathercock and banging against the ship's side. The Congo and Coasts of Africa The girl was as changeable as a weathercock. The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border Read the news, but not the weathercock essays called editorials. Westways If ever there was a weathercock it was my sister-in-law. The Belfry Sentences with which and what in indirect questions:— His head...looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.—Irving. An English Grammar Against the horizon were seen two glittering weathercocks surmounting two small towers arising in the midst of foliage. The Amulet Above the trees, not far away, is observed the weathercock of a chapel-spire, plainly indicating the location of the European quarter. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Probably a sphere would prove most useful for a pressure anemometer, since owing to its symmetrical shape it would not require a weathercock. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 The rock shone bright, the kirk no less, That stands above the rock: The moonlight steeped in silentness The steady weathercock. Selections from Five English Poets The seat of government continued unchanged in the family mansion:—a Dutch-built house, with a front, or rather gable-end of yellow brick, tapering to a point, with the customary iron weathercock at the top. Tales of a Traveller It was already late in the afternoon; the sun was about to sink below the horizon, its slanting rays illumined only the weathercocks on the top of the towers. The Amulet It was a large symmetrical building—a stone quadrangle, heavily topped off by a dark slate roof, and a dejected-looking weathercock that rebelled against the wind and declined to move. The Cross of Berny And now the rosy blush of morn began to mantle in the east, and soon the rising sun, emerging from amidst golden and purple clouds, shed his blithesome rays on the tin weathercocks of Communipaw. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete We live in a droll world, dear ——, and one scarcely knows on which side he is to look for protection, among the political weathercocks of the period. A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland There's one I see pass by every day, a judge's wife, haughty and stuck up as a weathercock on a church spire. The Song of the Blood-Red Flower Every dwelling was distinctly visible; the little spires of the two churches pointed upwards, and caught a fore-glimmering of brightness from the sun-gilt skies upon their gilded weathercocks. Short-Stories It was covered with balconies, balusters, lodges, alcoves, weathercocks. The Man Who Laughs He knew ever variety of windmill and weathercock, but was not a whit the wiser as to the aerial sign in question. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Maria, I wish to gracious you'd go up stairs and look after the children.—Well, about half a minute after she struck out stepped that tomcat onto the weathercock. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot Two false gables, each of which was surmounted by an iron weathercock, intersected the roof of this building, and the high and narrow stoop was built of the red free-stone of the country. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas And ye dare know a woman from a weathercock? Beggars Bush From the Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10) The pointed façades are surmounted with a small weathercock, a little lance, or something resembling a bunch of flowers. Composition-Rhetoric Several times was Anthony obliged to stand forth like a fugleman and repeat the sign, and each time a circle of nasal weathercocks might be seen in the council chamber. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete And just then the hurricane reached the weathercock, and it began to revolve six hundred or seven hundred times a minute, the cat howling until you couldn't hear yourself speak.—Now, Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot In a niche at the very summit they have crowded a statue of Charles the Second, with a special pair of shoe-strings, big enough for a weathercock. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I His standpoint seemed to be that landlords were responsible for repairs only to lightning conductors and weathercocks. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 5, 1919 You may think me a weathercock," he said rather sheepishly to Mr. Montgomery, "but when I make up my mind that a thing is desirable I put my whole strength into putting it through. Ethel Morton's Enterprise They might as well have tried to turn a rusty weathercock with a broken-winded bellows. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Then he cut down the pole that upheld the weathercock and burned the manuscript of the book which he was writing in explanation of his system. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot Knox himself strongly resembling in attitude the dragon weathercock on Bow steeple painted black. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 552, June 16, 1832 We have a similar story related, I think, of Charles II.: a posture master climbed up Grantham steeple, and then stood on his head upon the weathercock. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829 I'm a spineless jellyfish, a weathercock that whirls to every emotional breeze. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Nobody can mistake the four pepper-boxes, with the four weathercocks on them, surmounting the corners of a great square castle, a little way from the river's edge. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 What do you mean by four dollars tax on a weathercock? Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot Bring that horse here, and go and hang my wig on the weathercock, to show this gentleman whether you're one of the lively sort or not.' Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty A weathercock or scarecrow or both things in one? Men, Women and Ghosts Now Mr. Laurence is looking up at the sky and the weathercock. Little Women Nobody, nothing, was either good or bad, but all veered like weathercocks in the shifting wind. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Four times two is eight, and four—on the weathercock, you know—is twelve. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot Above, the old weathercock groans, but remembers Creaking, to turn, in its centuried rust. A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass The act proceeds to exclude from its restrictions flagstaffs, weathercocks and any solid signs not rising more than 3 feet above the roof. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Then came the hours of suspense, during which she vibrated from parlor to porch, while public opinion varied like the weathercock. Little Women But when day is breaking In the purple east I would meet you waking— One of you at least— When the sun is tipping Every stony block, And the sun is slipping Down the weathercock. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 When the stranger an' pilgrim comes in, says he first off: 'Why'n snakes they got that weathercock horse upside down—why?' says he. A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West He calls up the fog and hides the hills, He whirls the wings of the great windmills, The weathercocks love him and turn to discover His whereabouts — but he's gone, the rover! A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass This magnificent American fowl, like the more domestic weathercock, may often be seen wheeling through the air on the approach of a storm, and exhibits unmistakable signs of exultation when it is going to thunder. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 To discover the rolling cylinders of air, the vane of a weathercock might be so suspended as to dip or rise vertically, as well as to have its horizontal rotation. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation All this might change as quickly as the turn of a weathercock; but I will not trouble you with forebodings perhaps never to be realized. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 The Boss gets mad at that, and rights up the weathercock, and renames the camp Ophir, and you don't work no more pilgrims. A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West When the Bishop calls upon Richard to act, the King's weathercock mind veers round again, and he cries: "This ague fit of fear is over-blown, An easy task it is to win our own." The Man Shakespeare A great man will," as Burke says, "disdain to veer like the weathercock on the temple of fashion with every breath of wind. Tales and Novels — Volume 07 On the top of it, for a weathercock, was the large mechanical brazen Indian, who, whenever he heard the Old South clock strike twelve, shot off his brazen arrow. How to Do It Smoke might err, but a weathercock would not! Satanstoe Mr. Emile Richard, inspector of the Versailles waterworks, has just devised an ingenious system which, while considerably reducing the weight of the movable part, allows the weathercock to preserve all its sensitiveness. Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 God summons you, a Frenchman, to reign in Noumaria, and in addition affords you a chance to marry that weathercock of Badenburg's daughter. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes There was very little breeze, but this natural weathercock revealed from what direction it came. The Story of Kennett When the weather was quiet all over the country, the wind would howl and whistle round his roof; witches would ride and whirl upon his weathercocks, and scream down his chimneys. Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies Coupeau described a weathercock made by one of his comrades out of tin. L'Assommoir One could not have pointed to anything—it was beyond the range of weathercock or glass; but everybody felt it. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution To take a very familiar example, Wordsworth's theory of poetic diction shifted like a weathercock. A Study of Poetry The upper part of the spire and the weathercock of the Park Street Church appear over one of the houses, looking as if it were close behind. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. "You are cowards," said the Swallow, perching himself on the forest-ranger's weathercock, and peering out over the landscape. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories Well, Smith, I judge by your brief answer that you are discomposed with this matter; but, after all, women are weathercocks, that is the truth on't. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day They are weathercocks pointing to the quarter whence the wind blows. Jean-Christophe Journey's End The weathercock at sunset Would lose the slanted ray, And I would climb the beacon That looked to Wales away And saw the last of day. Last Poems by A. E. Housman The host saw us through the kitchen window, and ran out to usher us in with the assurance of a brass weathercock. The Yeoman Adventurer I never felt inclined to play the part of the young enthusiast in "Excelsior," as I looked up at the weathercock which surmounts the spire. Our Hundred Days in Europe The race is not extinct, but, as of old, brings forth its "winds of doctrine" by which the weathercock heads among us are much exercised.Some critics do not even take the trouble to read. Science & Education And the disinterested theorists, the philosophers of brute force, like good little weathercocks, reared their heads above them and were the oriflammes of the storm. Jean-Christophe Journey's End He might complain as much as he liked; there is no law in the land, as far as I know, that makes the fixing of a straw-hat upon a weathercock a penal offence. The Treasure of the Incas They turned their attention, with hopeful grins, to the brass weathercock on the church tower, which I did not deem worth saving. The Yeoman Adventurer On the top of the weathercock sat the starling, and sang so loud that every note was heard by the wife, who sat on an egg in the heart of a pear tree. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils But in his case Mother Nature had intermingled elements so cleverly that Rochefort could be republican and royalist, catholic and atheist, without being accused for all that of being a political weathercock. Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) In front of this entry, there stood a pillar made of wire as tall as the mast of a ship, on the top of which was a weathercock likewise made of wire. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time He is a weathercock upon the steeple of the church, that turns with every wind that blows from any point of the compass. Character Writings of the 17th Century At each corner of the building is an octagon tower, surmounted by a gilt ball and weathercock. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 Around, the billows burst and foam; They lift her o'er the sunken rock, They beat her sides with many a shock, And then upon their flowing dome They poise her, like a weathercock! The Golden Legend Near the earth's surface winds blow in variable directions, and the weathercock becomes the type of fickleness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 When, when will day Begin to dawn, whose new-born ray May gild the weathercocks of our devotion, And give our unsouled souls new motion? England's Antiphon Blow, wind! the youngest of King Henry's stock Would fitly serve to make a weathercock. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 Everyone of these weathercocks crows there on the tip top of the steeple over each town or village because of an order of the Pope. England of My Heart : Spring This slang word usually means a milksop, but here it is equivalent to 'a butterfly', 'a weathercock'—a man of changeable disposition. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III The Triple Alliance gave a simultaneous start as though they had received an electric shock, and their heads turned round like three weathercocks. The Triple Alliance Its trials and triumphs Hogarth, whose mind was in weathercock state, rolled the barrow to the hill, left it, went stealing fleetly up, and gripped the man's collar, to whisper: "In the King's name I arrest you". The Lord of the Sea Oh, the Press is like a weathercock—it turns whichever way the wind of speculation blows. Temporal Power And if you desire an example, let me give you weathercocks. England of My Heart : Spring My King cherishes no weathercock fancy, no fantastic vein. The King of the Dark Chamber Miss Wynne called him a decrepit weathercock to me last month, and then was in a fury at herself, and sorry too; but she will talk with him no more. Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker The charming architectural promontory of the Dogana stretches out the most graceful of arms, balancing in its hand the gilded globe on which revolves the delightful satirical figure of a little weathercock of a woman. Italian Hours On looking upwards, I beheld him hanging by his bridle to the weathercock of the steeple. The Junior Classics — Volume 5 In spite of the weathercocks and their watchfulness, however, the memories of the great pilgrimage between Faversham and Harbledown are dishearteningly few. England of My Heart : Spring She was younger and even fairer than Griselda, and the fickle people, ever changeable, as a weathercock, were full of praises for the choice of the marquis. The Junior Classics — Volume 4 I durst say no more: And my lady turning from him, he said, Your sex is the d—-l! how strangely can you discompose, calm, and turn, as you please, us poor weathercocks of men! Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Behold you here then, good reader, a glorious Latitudinarian, that can, as to religion, turn and twist like an eel on the hook; or rather like the weathercock that stands on the steeple. The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works I turned me to the right, and there once more I saw, as on that first afternoon, the weathercock that watched the winds over the stables at Oldcastle Hall. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood Under all your cloakings of vagary I observe that you have a foundation of common-sense, just as the giddiest weathercock is bedded on a stone. Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch The beautiful stream above and below bridge attracted my eye; and, when the gilt weathercock on the bridge-cross glittered in the sunshine, I always had a pleasant feeling. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life I should prefer it to any further effort to follow the gyrations of the weathercock you no doubt call your mind. Press Cuttings The weathercock on the spire and the barometer on the back piazza are studied as they are not studied by dwellers in cities. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel The Press turned round like a weathercock with the wind, and exhausted every epithet of abuse they could find in the dictionaries. Ardath "We have nailed the weathercock," he said, "and telegraphed to the clerk of the weather-office not to let the wind change for a week." Magnum Bonum I looked at every weathercock as I came along the road to-day, and was happy to see every one point northeast. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Electricity has also been employed to register the movements of weathercocks and anemometers. The Story of Electricity Too late, George Fielding," he cried aloud—"too late; I can't shift my heart like a weathercock to suit the changes in your luck. It Is Never Too Late to Mend You can't change about like a weathercock, and expect me to change, too, and forget everything that went before! Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby The village hall and the school-house were distinguished by superior size and green-glazed tile roofs; nor was a church, with a pointed belfry and weathercock, missing. The Malady of the Century Yes, and there is a village at the bottom of the valley by a swift-running stream, and in it a small white church with a spire and a gilt weathercock with a bird on it. Love Eternal Mr. Vane had often seen a weathercock at work, and he had heard a woman compared to it; but he had never realized the simplicity, beauty and justice of the simile. Peg Woffington It doesn't matter," she said, "but I notice that you are all beginning to treat me like a sort of moral weathercock. Who Cares? a story of adolescence That weathercock of Spencer's is a magnet, I believe! The Daisy chain, or Aspirations Ted is a weathercock, and Dolly and George, of course, are fogies in spite of the Annex, and girls at Girton going ahead of the men. Jo's Boys To‑day the weathercock has turned to another quarter, and my books no longer sell. Fabre, Poet of Science Mrs. Vane," said the actress, "fancied you had mislaid that weathercock, your heart, in Covent Garden, and that an actress had seen in it a fit companion for her own, and had feloniously appropriated it. Peg Woffington "He is a weathercock, turning every moment from side to side," said Gardiner, with a contemptuous shrug of the shoulders. Henry VIII and His Court Now, for once, a tumult and noise, that thought may turn about like a weathercock. Old Fritz and the New Era In many of the provinces of France the name of chateau is given to almost any little country-house with a weathercock on its pointed roof. Within an Inch of His Life "Elevate him on a weathercock!" raged Miss Corny. East Lynne No, no; I would rather make a weathercock guardian to my daughter. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest And that is just what you want, you weathercock, you. Henry VIII and His Court North, south, east, west—to have a weathercock for a wife is to marry the wind. The Return Many men, fickle as weathercocks, are ready to marry at the moment,—are ready to marry at the moment, because they are fickle, and think so little about it. The Last Chronicle of Barset It was on the left hand side, a square, ugly, red brick house with a weathercock on the top, standing some little distance from the road. East Lynne One piece of the tree is cut for a weathercock and one for the sleeper of a bridge; the virtue of the wood is apparent in both. Essays — First Series ‘It would so please me, my dear little girl, if you could get to like him better than that weathercock, Master Bob.’ The Trumpet-Major I can't understand her, for she acts like a weathercock, and I never know how I 'm going to find her. An Old-Fashioned Girl And at the top there is a castle—not a square castle like Windsor, but a castle all slate gables and high peaks with gilt weathercocks flashing bravely—the castle of St Elizabeth of Hungary. The Good Soldier Never was the moon brighter; it lighted the far-stretching garden, it illuminated even the weathercock aloft, it shone upon the portico, and upon one who appeared in it. East Lynne So felt he who wrote the epitaph of the builder of the dome which looks down on the crosses and weathercocks that glitter over London. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 It is flanked by four stone towers with weathercocks. The Book of Snobs "What a weathercock Sir Harry is," said Lucy quietly. A Room with a View Charles," she said at length, in her monotonous, emotionless voice, "is a weathercock that turns with every wind that blows upon him. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series As we rolled along the way, and passed the weathercocks on the temples, I saluted the symbol of the goddess Fortune with a reverent awe. Roundabout Papers Kutuzov no one spoke of, except some who abused him in whispers, calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. War and Peace Should the reader desire a more distinct impression of them, he may imagine on each square league of territory1202, and to each thousand of inhabitants, one noble family in its weathercock mansion. The Ancient Regime I am not a weathercock—and never will be. An Enemy of the People Crowds stood in Cheapside gazing intently at the weathercock on the graceful steeple of Bow Church, and praying for a Protestant wind. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 He hath restored our church weathercock an' all an' set up a fine, large and fair pillory on the green. Black Bartlemy's Treasure Down below, underneath her, the village square was empty; the stones of the pavement glittered, the weathercocks on the houses were motionless. Madame Bovary One doesn't sneer at the weathercock because one hour it points to the north and the next to the east. Phyllis of Philistia And quietly, noiselessly, Mary watched the unchanging weathercock through the night. Mary Barton People flighty, indiscreet, imprudent, Turning like the weathercock to every wind. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 A gray sky; the weathercock of a steeple that rose beyond the opposite range of buildings, pointing from the eastward; a sprinkle of small, spiteful-looking raindrops on the window-pane. The Blithedale Romance On the top was a ship for a weathercock. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon The weathercocks creaked, the tiles ground against each other, the roof timbers trembled in their mortices, and the walls shook upon their foundations. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels I'll see after the wind, hang it, and the weathercock too. Mary Barton The seat of government continued unchanged in the family mansion,— a Dutch-built house, with a front, or rather gable end, of yellow brick, tapering to a point, with the customary iron weathercock at the top. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American Late in the afternoon, the weathercock on the church spire indicated a change of wind; the sun shone dimly out, as if the golden wine of its beams were mingled half-and-half with water. The Blithedale Romance I have no command of my talents, such as they are, and have to watch the varyings of my mind as I would those of a weathercock. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon A gale of wind had risen and uttered long bellowings like a wounded bull, to which the grating of weathercocks and the dismal cry of the owls responded. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels A watched pot never boils, and I see you are after watching that weathercock. Mary Barton I, who was late so volatile and gay, Like a trade-wind must now blow all one way, Bend all my cares, my studies, and my vows, To one dull rusty weathercock—my spouse! School for Scandal He concealed under a deluge of commonplaces his native incapacity, his total want of education, and a weakness of character which can only be expressed by the old word "weathercock." The Deputy of Arcis "Oh, if you come to that," remarked the poet Treherne, "you might as well say Squire Vane doesn't exist, and that he's only an allegory for a weathercock." The Trees of Pride He shot the weathercock off his own ridiculous gilded summerhouse. The Man Who Knew Too Much He was laughing deafeningly; Basil Grant was laughing voicelessly; and the rest of us only felt that our heads were like weathercocks in a whirlwind. The Club of Queer Trades We had weathercocks and men who faced forward, no matter what the wind that blew. 1492 From the upper part, the weathercocks of twenty chateaux may be seen. The Mystery of Orcival O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple! Two Gentlemen of Verona He keeps the crooked weathercock in the summerhouse to perpetuate the story of a legend. The Man Who Knew Too Much Around the iron weathercock were flying long thin fringes like black cobwebs lifted by the breeze. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse He was ever a weathercock, and even as Wilding's words seemed to strike the courage out of him, so did Grey's short contemptuous answer restore it. Mistress Wilding Another change in this weathercock of a girl. No Name He gave me a most tremendous dip and roll, so that the church jumped over its own weathercock. Great Expectations He'd shot a cockade off a hat and a weathercock off a building. The Man Who Knew Too Much The summer sun is sinking low; Only the tree-tops redden and glow: Only the weathercock on the spire Of the neighboring church is a flame of fire; All is in shadow below. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Serve or not serve, I shan't ask license of you, sir, nor the weathercock your companion. The Way of the World "Because she flew into a great passion on receiving the letter, saying that Monsieur Porthos was a weathercock, and that she was sure it was for some woman he had received this wound." The Three Musketeers The walls were smooth and unbroken, the lofty towers intact, rising proudly at the four angles of the building, with their freshly gilded weathercocks gleaming in the sunlight. Captain Fracasse "If ever the wind was in the east," said my guardian, pretending to look out of the window for a weathercock, "I think it's there to-day!" Bleak House |
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