The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were
crisped and sere -- The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year: It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir: -- It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
Crisp, fresh from Oxford, and curate to the Vicar of Chiswick, the Reverend Mr.
At length he reached the fir-tree beneath which she was sitting, and with a
crisp crackling sound he alighted beside her, and looked at her lovely face.
March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were
crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
The first is the taste, Which is meager and hollow, but
crisp: Like a coat that is rather too tight in the waist, With a flavor of Will-o-the-wisp.
My, he was
crisp! Enough to have given Romeo the jumps, you'd have thought.
"The dust in the curtains, if you will pardon me for hinting such a thing, has parched my throat to a
crisp."
Among the Dutch whalemen these scraps are called fritters; which, indeed, they greatly resemble, being brown and
crisp, and smelling something like old Amsterdam housewives' dough-nuts or oly-cooks, when fresh.
All was fresh and beautiful after the sultriness of the desert, and the sunshine and sweet,
crisp air were delightful to the wanderers.
The sky over them was like a jewelled cup from which the dusk was pouring; the air was
crisp with the compelling tang of the sea, and the whole landscape was infused with the subtleties of a sea evening.
It was a
crisp, clear day, the first of its order for some time; the night had brought a touch of frost, and the autumn air, bright and sharp, made the church bells almost gay.