It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just, the worst time of the year, to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off in solstitio brumali, the very dead of winter. See Eliot 306:73.

-Andrewes, Lancelot
  Of the Nativity, sermon15.

The climate of Manitoba consists of seven months of Arctic weather and five months of cold weather.

-Anonymous
  Settler's Guide to the North-West, issued by the Northern Pacific Railway Company, NewYork.

He answered and said unto them,When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring.O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew16:2^3.

Painting, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

Now westlin winds, and slaught'rin guns Bring Autumn's pleasant weather.

-Burns, Robert
  'Song, composed in  August', stanza1.

Buddy, it's fruitcake weather!

-Capote,Truman
  Of December in  Alabama.  A Christmas Memory.

   Hope ushers in a Revolutionöas earthquakes are preceded by bright weather. 192

-Carlyle,Thomas
  History of the French Revolution, vol.1, bk.2, ch.1.

Jolly boating weather And a hay-harvest breeze, Blade on the feather, Shade off the trees; Swing, swing together, With your body between your knees.

-Cory,William originally  WilliamJohnson
  'Eton Boat Song'.

Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain.

-Dekker,Thomas
  The Shoemaker's Holiday,'The First Three-men's Song'.

The earth was made for Dombeyand Son to trade in, and thesunandmoonweremadetogivethemlight.Riversand seas were formed to float their ships; rainbowsgave them promise of fair weather; winds blew fororagainst their enterprises; stars and planets circled intheir orbits, to preserve inviolate a system of whichthey were the centre.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^8  Dombey and Son, ch.1.

A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'The  Journey of the Magi'.

This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly: And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at 'TheTravellers' Rest', And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I.

-Hardy,Thomas
  Late Lyrics and Earlier,'Weathers'.

When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  In The Idler, no.11, 24  Jun.

Heavenly weather. If life was always like that.Cricket weather. Sit around under sunshades.Over after over. Out. They can't play it here. Still,Captain Buller broke a window in Kildare Street Club with a slog to square leg.

-Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius
  Ulysses. Legend has it that W G Grace performed the feat of breaking the Kildare Street Club window while playing at the distant College Park in the1870s.

Give me books, fruit, frenchwineand fine weatherand a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.

-Keats,John
  Letter to Fanny Keats, 29  Aug.

They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Rewards and Fairies,'TheWay Through the Woods'.

The British, he thought, must be gluttons for satire: even the weather forecast seemed to be some kind of spoof, predicting every possible combination of weather for the next twenty-four hours without actually committing itself to anything specific.

-Lodge, David John
  Changing Places, ch.2.

There are people around here who think Hillary Clinton is responsible for the weather.

-McCurry, Michael D
  In the NewYork Times,7  Jan. New revelations about the First Lady's role in Whitewater land sales and the firing of the presidential travel office had coincided with a heavy Washington snowfall.

   It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glassisfalling hourby hour, theglass will fall forever, But if you break the bloody glass, you won't hold up the weather.

-MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis
  'Bagpipe Music', stanza10.

   Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.

-Piercy, Marge
  Stone, Paper, Knife,'TheWeight'.