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单词 mackerel sky
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But now they were higher and smaller, settling at last into a mackerel sky like a beach at low tide. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
"Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, not long wet nor not long dry," said a man in a black silk top hat to Tristran and Yvaine. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
The lilies had died back to the ground; the bark of the crepe myrtles had all peeled away; there was a mackerel sky. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
We stay in the present moment and talk about the mackerel sky and the planes she thinks are birds. ‘Eventually I knew she was no longer safe alone’: how do we care for family with dementia? 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z
The sweep of country appeared magnificent, as fingers of sunlight reached through a mackerel sky and lighted craggy islands. Trekking With Wolves 2010-02-20T06:14:00Z
The colors in her fur are like a mackerel sky. My pandemic epiphany: realizing the hole in my life was cat-shaped 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z
Another form that the cirro stratus may assume is the mackerel sky,—clouds with the light and shade of the scales of a fish. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z
When the cirrus and cumulus are combined, in well-defined roundish masses, what is familiarly described as a “mackerel sky” is beautifully presented. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z
For example, what can be more beautiful than that compound modification of cloud forms commonly called a “mackerel sky,” which is sometimes seen on a summer evening? The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z
A lovely morning, a mackerel sky, with patches of blue. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z
He also told her about the weather signs; a low cloud moving swiftly indicated coolness; hard-edged clouds, wind; rolled or jagged clouds, strong wind; and a mackerel sky, a whole day of fair weather. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z
The sky looks like fish scales, so-called mackerel sky. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z
I have never met with ten persons who applied even the term “mackerel sky” to the same precise form of cirro-stratus. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes
"You can generally count on that mackerel sky furnishing a rain," he said. The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure
They were light cumuli, or cirro-cumuli, shifting into a brightly shining mackerel sky. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I
When this division is merely effected by undulation, the cloud exactly resembles sea-sand ribbed by the tide; but when the division amounts to real separation we have the mottled or mackerel skies. Modern Painters Volume I (of V)
All this time the weather was all that could be desired, with bright sunny days, a mackerel sky and moonlight nights, the moon being at its full. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders
The form known as the “mackerel sky” is not represented there. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes
It forms the mackerel sky alluded to in the following distich:— "A mack'rel sky and mares'-tails Make lofty ships carry low sails." The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.
With returning daylight, and the promise of the sun, clouds again dotted the southern heavens, and mottled with beautiful mackerel skies the dome above us. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51
Oh, I would sing of mackerel skies, And why the sea is wet, Of jelly-fish and conger-eels, And things that I forget. The Book of Humorous Verse
There was no sun save where he streamed his ribbon rays from behind Sunset Rock, and threw them in pearl and ivory fan handles—white and gold and emerald, across the mackerel sky beyond. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
In the “mackerel sky,” strictly so called, the waves are small, parallel, nearly distinct and equi-distant, and resembling the appearance of a school of mackerel, swimming in the same direction, one above another. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes
Once a general name for square-rigged vessels:— "A mackerel sky and mares' tails Make lofty ships carry low sails." The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.
"A mackerel sky and mare's tails, Make lofty ships carry low sails." Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
One day, while up on the levee trying to take a satisfactory picture of an elusive "mackerel sky," which was changing from moment to moment, he met a stranger. The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men
A mackerel sky is a sign of a storm. Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk
Casting my eyes upward, I was astonished in beholding another cloud-stratum, far above the lower one; it was what is commonly termed a “mackerel sky,” the sun faintly shining through it. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes
It was a glorious night beneath the radiance of a full moon which silvered the lace-work of a mackerel sky. John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life
The north was a mackerel sky of little, fiery golden clouds. Anne's House of Dreams
The sky was what is called a mackerel sky--rows and rows of faint down-plumes of cloud, just tinted with the midsummer sunset. The War of the Worlds
Nos. 1020-1028.—The mackerel sky is a name given to an assemblage of cirrus clouds which are thought to imitate the barred markings on the side of a mackerel. Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk
As the day lengthened they thickened to resemble the scales of a fish, bringing to mind the old saying, "A mackerel sky and a mare's tail," etc. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
Oh, I would sing of mackerel skies,       And why the sea is wet,     Of jelly-fish and conger-eels,        And things that I forget. A Nonsense Anthology
The sunshine's gone, and now an April evening   Commences with a dim and mackerel sky. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
Or we say that the clouds are flying: the savage used the same expression, as he looked up at the mackerel sky, and saw in it flights of swans coursing over the heavenly lake. The Book of Were-Wolves
There was a mackerel sky, with the clouds dropping on the mountain-tops till you could hardly say which was which.  The Lady of the Shroud
"White frost and mackerel sky; going to be falling weather," Jim said, aloud, as he went out of the yard, crunching the crisp grass under heel. The Copy-Cat and Other Stories
It was a mackerel sky of a very bold and extraordinary kind—not a dish of mackerel, but a world of mackerel!  The Lady of the Shroud
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