Weather Quotations

"Atmospheric Tumult"

"One may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house, and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun."

"The power of the north wind"

"All the day had been flooding with rain."

"Linton is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire."

"The storm came rattling over the Heights in full fury. There was a violent wind as well as thunder."

"In the evening the weather broke; the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought rain first, and then sleet and snow."

"She was the most winning thing that ever brought sunshine in to a desolate house."

"I found plenty of entertainment in listening to the larks singing far and near, and enjoying the sweet warm sunshine."

"Her eyes radiant with cloudless pleasure."

"Catherine's face was just like the landscape - shadows and sunshine flitting over it in rapid succession; but the shadows rested longer, and the sunshine was more transient."

"In every cloud, in every tree - filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object by day - I am surrounded with her image!"

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