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We had a spell of fine weather last autumn.

A spell of fine weather enabled us to get the harvest in safely.

” The same office sends notices to the agricultural districts when a spell of fine weather, favorable for haying or the like, appears to be on the programme.

Pearl's aspect was imbued with a spell of infinite variety; in this one child there were many children, comprehending the full scope between the wild-flower prettiness of a peasant-baby, and the pomp, in little, of an infant princess.

Schumacher worked with similar themes in the poorly thought through Falling Down (1993), in which Michael Douglas has a spell of road rage and doesn't cool off.

The impact that the falls make will depend to a certain extent on what kind of weather the area has been experiencing: after a spell of rain they’re a spectacular torrent, but in dry weather the flow can slow to a mere trickle.

“In favourable seasons, the Oven-birds begin building in the autumn,” Hudson tells us, “and the work is resumed during the winter whenever there is a spell of mild, wet weather.

On the twenty-fourth the weather cleared up after a spell of rain, and after dinner Pierre left Moscow.


When changing horses that night in Perkhushkovo, he learned that there had been a great battle that evening.


(This was the battle of Shevardino.


) He was told that there in Perkhushkovo the earth trembled from the firing, but nobody could answer his questions as to who had won.


At dawn next day Pierre was approaching Mozhaysk.


Periods of plenty in the north would mean an increase in population there; a shortage of grass, a spell of cattle disease, would drive the hungry warlike tribesmen south.

Periods of plenty in the north would mean an increase in population there; a shortage of grass, a spell of cattle disease, would drive the hungry warlike tribesmen south.






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