Seasons

Examples

• The seasons most unfavourable to the crop are those of excessive drought or excessive rain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Let us help each other through seasons of want and woe as well as we can, without heeding in the least the scruples of vain philosophy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He was not very wise; but he was a man about town, and had seen several seasons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Hence the air of gusts and hurricanes is cold, though in hot climates and seasons; it coming from above. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• No one had ever carried the hay away and the four seasons that had passed had flattened the cocks and made the hay worthless. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Last of all they will conclude:--This is he who gives us the year and the seasons, and is the author of all that we see. Plato. The Republic.
• A good rice field is a bog at all seasons, and at one season a bog covered with water. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Long periods of slowness and stagnation have alternated with shorter or longer periods of prolific growth, and these with seasons of slumber and repression. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The suddenness of the effect can be accounted for only by a cause which can operate suddenly, the accidental variations of the seasons. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• As most people know, the change in the seasons is due to the fact that the equator of the earth is inclined at an angle to the plane of its orbit. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It has done more than your six seasons at Bath. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But from the phases of the moon, as his tillage increased, man's attitude would go on to the greater cycle of the seasons. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Thomson's Seasons, Hayley's Cowper, Middleton's Cicero, were by far the lightest, newest, and most amusing. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The last three are navigable streams at all seasons. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This question between us is a question of soils and seasons, and patience and pains, Mr. Gardener. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• His primitive tillage strengthened his sense of the seasons. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Between the two, shifting backwards and forwards at certain seasons of the year, lies the most horrible quicksand on the shores of Yorkshire. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• This hotel have recently enlarge, do offer all commodities on moderate price, at the strangers gentlemen who whish spend the seasons on the Lake Come. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The seasons have made their wonted round, and decked this eternal city in a changeful robe of surpassing beauty. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It is this inclination which causes the difference in the seasons and the unequal length of the day in summer and winter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Fourthly, In many parts of Scotland, during certain seasons of the year, herrings make no inconsiderable part of the food of the common people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Weeks, months, seasons, pass along. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Those who live by agriculture generally pass the whole day in the open air, exposed to all the inclemencies of the seasons. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In winter, in cold countries or severe seasons, the fur changes from a reddish-brown to a yellowish-white, or almost pure white, under which shade the animal is recognized as the ermine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Because of that change which occurs in the color of its fur at different seasons--by far most marked in the Arctic regions--it is not generally known that the ermine and stoat are the same. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• That cursed marsh wind kills many at all seasons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Ivory seasons only to a slight depth. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Does it bring it to its reservoirs in the most economic way possible, and is there any legitimate excuse for the scarcity of water which many communities face in dry seasons? Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• That is, I have my times and my seasons. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The seasons during which the ability of private people to accumulate was somewhat impaired, would occur more rarely, and be of shorter continuance. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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