It was a crisp,
clear day, the first of its order for some time; the night had brought a touch of frost, and the autumn air, bright and sharp, made the church bells almost gay.
Here ample time will be given not only to look over the city, which was founded six hundred years before the Christian era, and its artificial port, the finest of the kind in the Mediterranean, but to visit Paris during the Great Exhibition; and the beautiful city of Lyons, lying intermediate, from the heights of which, on a
clear day, Mont Blanc and the Alps can be distinctly seen.
But if he elects to attempt it, let him be warily careful of two things: chose a calm,
clear day; and do not pay the telescope man in advance.
A line of broken water traced the dangerous bar, which in
clear day and balmy weather has cracked the back of many a tall ship.
It was a
clear day again, with a blazing sun; the water in the brandy bottle was soon gone; and altogether, if I had guessed what it would be to crawl half the time upon my belly and to walk much of the rest stooping nearly to the knees, I should certainly have held back from such a killing enterprise.
When I had passed the vale where my bower stood, as above, I came within view of the sea to the west, and it being a very
clear day, I fairly descried land - whether an island or a continent I could not tell; but it lay very high, extending from the W.
From this point, on a
clear day, those vast plains which uninterruptedly extend to the Atlantic Ocean can be seen.
The Leather-Stocking has put his hounds into the hills this
clear day, and they have started their game.
And he met Thibetan herdsmen with their dogs and flocks of sheep, each sheep with a little bag of borax on his back, and wandering wood-cutters, and cloaked and blanketed Lamas from Thibet, coming into India on pilgrimage, and envoys of little solitary Hill-states, posting furiously on ring-streaked and piebald ponies, or the cavalcade of a Rajah paying a visit; or else for a long,
clear day he would see nothing more than a black bear grunting and rooting below in the valley.
Here is a man with a palace waiting to receive him--and he is only going to stop one
clear day in it!"
"I am the man you met in the woods east of the big river, and whom you tried to persuade to line a yellow hornet to his nest: as if my eye was not too true to mistake any other animal for a honey-bee, in a
clear day! We tarried together a week, as you may remember; you at your toads and lizards, and I at my high-holes and hollow trees: and a good job we made of it between us!
However, I cross the road and get on to the grass and we walk along, and I sing as I always do when I'm alone, until we come to the open place where you can see the whole of London beneath you on a
clear day. Hampstead Church spire there, Westminster Cathedral over there, and factory chimneys about here.