"Hailstone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... myself, by lying flat on my face, on the lee-side of a border of lemon-thyme; but so bruised from head to foot, that I could not go abroad in ten days. Neither is that at all to be wondered at, because nature, in that country, observing the same proportion through all her operations, a hailstone is near eighteen hundred times as large as one in Europe; which I can assert upon experience, having been so curious to weigh and ...
— The Junior Classics, V5 • Edited by William Patten
... imagine it, Howe'er absurd such notions may be thought— When the wide heavens, wild with thunder fit, Huge hailstones to distress the nation wrought, A mass congeal'd of heaven's artill'ry wain,[6] A "hailstone chorus" of ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 357 - Vol. XIII, No. 357., Saturday, February 21, 1829 • Various |
