 | Moses Aaron Richardson - 1844 - 436 páginas
...fair and clear, There '11 be two winters in the year. * 25 January. f Cattle. J Christmas. PART IV. ARCH comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb....St. David's day,* Put oats and barley in the clay. An ague in the spring, Is physic for a king. Tid, Mid, and Misera, Carling, Palm, and Paste-egg-Day.f... | |
 | 1844 - 858 páginas
...fair and clear, There '11 be two winters in the year. • 25 January. f Cattle. f Christmas. 1'ART IV. ARCH comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. A peck of Marcli dust is worth a king's ransom. Upon St. David's day,* Put oats and barley in the clay. An ague... | |
 | Percy Society - 1847 - 358 páginas
...bier, Than see a fair Februeer. February fills the dyke, Either with black or white.* MARCH. March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb. A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom. A dry March never begs its bread. March grass never did good. The spring is not always green- f Sow... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 338 páginas
...may expect " many weathers ;" and there is a very old proverb, " March hackham, comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb." " A. peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom," is a proverb meaning that the " peck of dust" in this month is worth as much as was paid for the redemption... | |
 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - 1871 - 440 páginas
...husbandman becomes a beggar1" " Never come Lent never come winter." " March many weathers." " March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb." " A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom." " A March without water Dowers the hind's daughter." " March winds and April showers Bring forth the... | |
 | John Glyde - 1872 - 526 páginas
...before sunrise, it will be a dropping season. If the bushes be dry, we may look for a dry summer. March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. A bushel of March diut is worth a Jew's eye or a king's ruusoiu. Mad as a March bare. In April the cuckoo... | |
 | Proverbial folk-lore - 1874 - 176 páginas
...better to like. One of many testimonies to the protecting and fertilising properties of snow. March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom. A peck of March dust, and a shower in May Makes the corn green, and the meadow look gay. If it rains... | |
 | Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1875 - 188 páginas
...many testimonies to the protecting and fertilising properties of snow. March comes in like a lion aud goes out like a lamb. A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom. A peck of March dust, and a shower in May Makes the corn green, and the meadow look gay. If it rains... | |
 | 1899 - 540 páginas
...laying by something to support her in her old age," added Mr. Tenspot. LOVE, like March, pretty often comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. A Correction. PEOKIA, ILL., February 16, 1899. T7DITOR OP LIFE: In your issue of to-day you stale that... | |
 | Folklore Society (Great Britain) - 1904 - 212 páginas
...winter's gane at Yule. If Candlemas day is fair and clear There'll be two winters in the year. March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb. A...St. David's day, put oats and barley in the clay. An ague in the spring, is physic for a king. Care Sunday, care away ; Palm Sunday and Easter day. March... | |
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March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, A bushel of March dust is worth a king's ransom. The "national" proverbs do not offer problems which we can safely attack with our present knowledge. 
