It was very early in September; the season was fine, and from first seeing the place under the advantage of
good weather, they received an impression in its favour which was of material service in recommending it to their lasting approbation.
On entering their defiles, therefore, they often hang offerings on the trees, or place them on the rocks, to propitiate the invisible "lords of the mountains," and procure
good weather and successful hunting; and they attach unusual significance to the echoes which haunt the precipices.
Part of the little raft's belongings consisted of an old sail, and this they spread over a nook in the bushes for a tent to shelter their provisions; but they themselves would sleep in the open air in
good weather, as became outlaws.
In
good weather, in the afternoons, Henderson often took him for a walk.
We had mighty
good weather as a general thing, and noth- ing ever happened to us at all -- that night, nor the next, nor the next.
They composed the watch on deck, and it was the ship's custom, in
good weather, to let the watch sleep with the exception of the officer, the helmsman, and the look-out.
This has been too long a spell of
good weather to last."
The
good weather's hangin' on something wonderful."
"Your worship is mistaken, senor," said she; "for it is not two years since I set out from it, and though I never had
good weather, nevertheless I am here to behold what I so longed for, and that is my lord Don Quixote of La Mancha, whose fame came to my ears as soon as I set foot in Spain and impelled me to go in search of him, to commend myself to his courtesy, and entrust the justice of my cause to the might of his invincible arm."
While the horses were being harnessed Alpatych and Ferapontov over their tea talked of the price of corn, the crops, and the
good weather for harvesting.
We had very
good weather, only excessively hot, all the way upon our own coast, till we came to the height of Cape St.
But the
good weather isn't set to last, with thunderstorms predicted for Tuesday onwards.